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January 03, 2006
Ain't It Uncool, Reprise: Isbell Gets a "Manologue"
I know a lot of you have been wondering whatever happened to Michael Isbell, aka Sheldrake--the off-and-on Ain't It Cool News critic who faced stalking charges last year, went to the gossips about his ex-girlfriend and promptly melted down about the whole thing right here on this blog. After all of that, you asked, could the guy ever rehabilitate his crippled ego and ride that can-do, self-promotional spirit of his back into the New York spotlight?
Well, naturally, if his recent mass e-mail is any indication:
From: michael isbell
Date: Dec 31, 2005 1:19 AM
Subject: I've been cast in a play, strangely enough.
I’m not an actor, not since I acted in college and in my VERY early days in NYC.
30 years?
So, anyway, my buddy Ted Angelus, Robert Downey Jr.’s cousin and a producer, put on a play about six months ago called MANOLOGUES, a masculine counterpoint to the VAGINA MONOLOGUES. The production is rolling on and they need more actors. He asked me to audition. I thought, well, why not?
Showed up, there were a buncha real actors there. I gave it a whirl anyway.
Got the part. Shrug.
So, there ya go. Should be a hoot.
M
Um, yes. "Shrug" is about right. At any rate, congrats to Isbell on restoring his class-act status just in time for 2006. I only hope he gets the chance to cobble together his own "manologue" from the best of last year's e-mail correspondence; between that "freaky and scary" ex of his and their hot Vivendi love triangle, this thing virtually drips box office gold.
Posted by stvanairsdale at January 3, 2006 10:25 AM
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