Back in college, I did a little acting.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The highlight?\u00a0 I played Henry II i “The Lion in Winter”.\u00a0\u00a0 And I had a blast<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n One part of the role involved using makeup to turn 20 year old Mitch into 55 year old Hank Deuce.\u00a0 And since this was a small college theater, at a school that didn’t even offer a drama degre,\u00a0 there weren’t a whole lot of extra people playing “Makeup Girl”.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n More than that, the professor, the late Patricia Lavin, was a formidable woman – she’d been the first female theatrical producer in LA back in the fifties and sixties, and had a long list of theatrical and film credits (she had done makeup work on the original “Planet of the Apes”, for one example) – who made sure that we learned how to do the nuts and bolts of theater.\u00a0<\/p>\n Including makeup.\u00a0<\/p>\n Which meant I, the very adolescent-macho Mitch, had to learn how to do his own makeup.\u00a0<\/p>\n And looking at the photos of 20 year old Mitch playing 55 year old Hank II, I actually looked a fair bit like I do today (albeit with a lot more hair).\u00a0<\/p>\n I thought about that when I saw this “comedian” talking about the Rep. McBride crisis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n