Contrary to popular consensus, the definitive title SUPERSTAR does not apply to a biopic about Andy Warhol,  it isn't a film depiction of the antics of Molly Shannon's sacred SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE character, and it's not even the layman's way of referring a rock musical about  the father of Christianity.   SUPERSTAR is actually the name of a screenplay that I was commissioned to write, or should I say to adapt, from a West Indian film, into a story about American rural black people.  The basic plot deals with a popular singer who can't deal with the fact that his wife suddenly succeeds and knocks him out of the spotlight, in the forever fickle entertainment industry.  I was paid a flat rate to write this script, I signed the rights away, but I have every reason to believe that the film got made, and that one day, when I'm watching Cinemax at four in the morning, I'll hear dialogue that  sounds oddly familiar.  

  HOUSING (Read THE NEW YORK TIMES article) is the social comedy drama for the stage that has a bit of everything, and is explained in much greater detail on the Active Projects page of this site.  If nothing else, I'll bet Florenz Ziegfeld never put together such an interesting and diverse cast for what was essentially a series of rather elaborate professional staged readings, at the Elston Fine Arts Center, in 1992.  From left to right, top window first, there's Ginni McMath, one of the best theatrical performers I've ever met, who's played every role from Annie Oakley to Gypsy Rose Lee in regional and touring productions of many major musicals, and was recently featured on an episode of FRIENDS.   Besides writing, directing, producing, acting and collecting lizards, Marc Coppola, The Cope, has been one the leading disc jockeys on New York's classic rock stations, for over twenty years, he can currently be heard on 104.3 WAXQ FM, and he'll be starring in the upcoming feature film, BEL AIR.   Maggie Cullen is a very talented writer and comic actress, who's rarely gone a day without working in one intriguing project or another.  As you read this, it's likely that Sunda Croonquist is up on a stage somewhere, in a top comedy club in New York or Los Angeles, hosting her self created, now legendary show, Femme Fatales of Comedy, or on a nationally televised talk show or comedy special, performing her hilarious and original stand up.  Claire Carter has emceed numerous nationally syndicated radio and television talk shows, she was the co-anchor on INN Midday on CNBC, and she spent four years as co-host of PERSONAL EFX, on the Fox Cable News Network.  She regularly writes for PARADE magazine, and she was a featured actress in the film BLOW OUT, as well as on THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE.  Felicia Young is the founder and leader of Earth Celebrations, a foundation that has been making semi-annual parades to save the gardens on the lower east side of Manhattan, for the last ten years.  I've known Jessica Calabrese since she was born, and she's now a very beautiful and angelic teenager, attending La Guardia Performing Arts High School, for dance.  Her mother, Tricia Calabrese, in the next window over, teaches and performs piano, dabbles in serious acting and singing, and has offered me invaluable assistance on numerous projects, over the years.  The late Larry Watson was a very talented stage and screen actor, who I truly feel privileged to have known and worked with.  Sunda Croonquist, pictured once again in a different role, was recently nominated for a Mac Award as Outstanding Female Comedy Performer, and will be featured in the upcoming film, A CURE FOR BOREDOM.   Mike Mattasa's had a contract on him since he was four years old, when he played the little boy who instigated The Godfather's death, in the vegetable garden.  And Tyrus would stand out in a crowd of transsexual gladiators, he could add new depth and dimension to any role from Hamlet to Joan of Arc, and he is absolutely a completely different person from anyone else who isn't him.