The follow-up to his 2006 film Hollywood Dreams, Queen of the Lot picks up three years later with central character Maggie Chizek (Tanna Frederick), now calling herself Maggie Chase, having achieved a modest degree of success in B-movies as a kick ass martial arts heroine making action/adventure flicks of a rather cheesy nature. Maggie finds herself on house arrest, courtesy of two recent DUI arrests, but is determined to not let her clunky ankle bracelet keep her from climbing out of B-movies and into the upper echelon of Hollywood actresses.

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Reality and entertainment have always been inexorably entwined but in recent years the line that separates the two have blurred beyond recognition. The public’s intense infatuation with the personal lives of the rich and famous, the later term currently used in the broadest possible way, has become a billion dollar industry. There has always been a certain fascination held by the common throng to see the upper crust fall from their lofty perch. What once was propagated by means of gossip is now distributed through glossy magazines, television ‘entertainment news’ shows’ and more web sites that it’s possible to count. Henry Jaglom is a far from a relatively new auteur who is rapidly becoming one of the independent film community’s brightest filmmakers. He is building his well deserved reputation biting the hand that feeds his craft with frequently darkly hysterical results.

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Available in Canada in July
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Me. New Years Eve. We’re having a party and I’m hiding in the kitchen, depressed by the happy people invading my house.  I get like that when I haven’t worked for a while. Brain shuts down, tear ducts on over-drive, the meaning of life eludes me. Basically my Eleanora Duse goes into full swing, and I become a monster to all those near and dear.

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A guy in both midlife crisis and a stale marriage is an old story, but throw in a rambunctious adopted dog—played by an insouciant and lovely actress—and you have a play that is both poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. A. R. Gurney’s Sylvia is currently playing at the Edgemar Theatre in Santa Monica, a delightful local venue, and whether you love theatre, love dogs, or are simply looking for an evening of raucous entertainment, this production is a winner. Tanna Frederick, a former WLT cover girl has great acting chops, but here she gives free rein to camp—sniffing, cavorting, and freely anthropomorphizing a stray that our hero, played by Stephen Howard (Greg) brings home to the chagrin of his discombobulated wife Kate (Cathy Arden). Punctuating the fun is Tom Ayers in two roles that will have you practically rolling in the aisle.

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Tanna Frederick shines in A. R. Gurney’s “Sylvia” at the Edgemar Theatre Center for the Arts in Santa Monica. This play is the perfect vehicle for the very talented and versatile Frederick.  She has a lot of fun in the role and we have a lot of fun watching her cavort around.

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Sylvia, from the sharp and shrewd pen of A.R Gurney is a seamlessly shifting bowl of kibbles that explores New York as a valentine by “Marley and Me” author John Grogan. A mix of silly and David Lynch darkness, poetry and practicality, balanced by its cast and led by an inspired ball of energy otherwise known as Tanna Frederick.

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On the opening night of A.R. Gurney’s “Sylvia” at the Edgemar Center, the audience laughed so much that the cast had to pause before speaking their next lines. This play generates as much mirth and more as any comedy film playing at the local multiplex. It also probably can’t be made into a film because the literal quality of film is in opposition to the ability of live actors to engage the audience in believing what they don®t see. And the unseen that is believable here—and hilarious too—is that the title character, a mixed-breed stray dog named Sylvia, is played by a real human female named Tanna Frederick.

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