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Stephen Mitchell

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I bought Bentleys in England and Ferraris & Maseratis in Italy to re-sell in Los Angeles as a teenager. I met Enzo Ferrari, Juan Fangio and Steve McQueen. I 'grew up' on the set of Mission: Impossible and other episodic TV series of the era. For a few years, I owned a Ferrari GTO that is owned by Ralph Lauren today and valued at approximately $52M.

I began my film career by writing, producing and directing Montmartre in Paris in French. I founded and ran a repertory company for film & TV for 20 years in Los Angeles. I created a TV series which had fans that included Marlon Brando. I authored the first new acting technique--Action/ReAction--that was not based on Stanislavski's Method. I am currently in Ireland writing my third novel. If you
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Cannes: A cautionary tale (revisited via my alter ego Ray D. Shosay)

I've had both good and bad experiences at the Cannes festival--last year I had to listen to someone's incessant anecdotes about working in a video store as the price for a ride down on the G5--but this year takes the cake. I find very few reasons to leave my (junior) suite but the festival can usually be counted as one of them and so it was that I made my way to a villa in Cap d'Antibes where I en Read more of this blog post »
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“They say you can fool some of the people all of the time. Accordingly, I think we should concentrate on this group initially. We can move on to the people you can only fool some of the time at a later date if we deem it necessary.”
Stephen Mitchell, Ray D. Shosay's Journal: Dispatches from a (junior) suite in Paris

“The audience will remember what it didn't expect to see.”
Stephen Mitchell, Action/ReAction: A unique and innovative technique for actors and the history of its origins…

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

“The audience will remember what it didn't expect to see.”
Stephen Mitchell, Action/ReAction: A unique and innovative technique for actors and the history of its origins…

“They say you can fool some of the people all of the time. Accordingly, I think we should concentrate on this group initially. We can move on to the people you can only fool some of the time at a later date if we deem it necessary.”
Stephen Mitchell, Ray D. Shosay's Journal: Dispatches from a (junior) suite in Paris

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