Dear friends in and out of Los Angeles,

(in case you’re here between now and November 23)

I took a play.  After this summer I knew:  

1) for four years I’ve laid the best pipe I could for this election victory (my PDA and election protection efforts continue);

2) reinforcements had arrived to wage this campaign;  

3) an actress-activist must work the actress side of the equation or drop it;  

4) Pasadena Playhouse offered me this chance to (as I see it) remind people that feisty, plain-spoken populist women are hardly new to politics and one of them was hugely successful newspaper advice columnist Ann Landers, a county Democratic Party Chair as a young wife (who knew?)

She protested the Vietnam War to her powerful political friends at the peak of her career. She visited the troops there without fanfare. Nee Eppie Lederer of Sioux City, she is seen, in this play, on the night she survives a career/identity crisis to carry on. Our country must do the same. Come. This offers some good laughs (I think we’ll be able to laugh soon) and valuable perspective.  Those who don’t remember history…etc.,

Peace, Mimi