Nora Dunn first cracked up audiences on the show Saturday Night Live with her impersonations from Liza Minnelli to Ann Landers. She has continued a long career on television with recent roles on Private Practice and Entourage. She bounces back and forth with the cinema as well with Pineapple Express and It’s Complicated. By phone we talked Nunn on Dunn.
Jerry Nunn: Hello, Nora. I haven’t talked to you in a while. Where are calling me from?
Nora Dunn: I am in LA. Let me take my jacket off.
JN: Must be nice. I am freezing here in your hometown of Chicago.
ND: I have to say that I loved the blizzard. I don’t like being shut in for long but I did like it.
JN: That makes one of us. What are you doing in Los Angeles?
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Jasper Cole has over one hundred screen credits to his name as an actor, producer and writer. Celebrating the 10-anniversary of the movie Get Your Stuff, Nunn on the Run talked to Cole about how the themes of the movie still translate today.
Jerry Nunn: Hello, Jasper. What are you up to these days?
Jasper Cole: Tonight is the big Palm Springs film festival so I am driving out to the desert later on.
JN: What film are you promoting?
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Jane Seymour went from Bond girl to Medicine Woman. Now with a book signing and a gallery tour she returns to Chicago.
Jerry Nunn: Hello, Jane. Good to talk to you again. You have been busy!
Jane Seymour: You, too. It is going to get a little crazier from now on until the first of the year.
JN: You have your book so I can imagine.
JS: My book “Among Angels” came out a few weeks ago and by the third week it went into it’s third reprinting. I am doing a lot more book touring than I was originally going to do. It has been cool because I go to different places and speak about the philosophy of the open heart and the whole angel theory that I have. I have met some fascinating people and heard some incredible stories.
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JoJo Baby is a self-titled documentary sponsored by Clive Barker about the life of the Chicago artist and club kid. JoJo talked to Nunn on the Run about his experience with the project.
Jerry Nunn: I watched your film last night was really impressed. How was the whole experience?
JoJo Baby: Well, you never think that when you meet one of your heroes that they are going to like you, then to want to share you with the world, it is too much. I loved Clive Barker for such a long time.
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Olympia Dukakis hit our eye like a big pizza pie winning an Oscar for Moonstruck. We will never forget when Ousier worshipped the quicksand that she walked on in Steel Magnolias and her quick one-liners. Now she takes on pro choice at a local luncheon in Chicago.
Jerry Nunn: Hello, Olympia. I am excited that you are coming to Chicago.
Olympia Dukakis: I am too. You know my husband is from Chicago so I am trying to convince him to come with me. I don’t know if he will or not. He has some relatives still there.
JN: How did you become involved with Personal Pac?
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Eighties icon Ally Sheedy has built a career on quirky roles in the Breakfast Club, St. Elmo’s Fire and Short Circuit. She took a moment from her busy schedule to drop the towel and talk about her new movie, Steam, and her career with Nunn on the Run.
Jerry Nunn: So how did you start acting in the first place?
Ally Sheedy: It was something that I always wanted to do. I did a class on the weekends in high school, all the usual plays, etc. Then when I turned 18, I went out to L.A., got an agent and just started pounding the pavement.
JN: Your first big break was War Games, correct?
AS: No, it was called Bad Boys. Then it started to pick up speed.
JN: Do you get sick of the whole “Brat Pack” thing?
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Pam Grier rose to fame in the early 1970’s with a trio of films and has kept her career alive with various movie and television appearances. Her new book “Foxy, My Life in 3 Acts” gives a candid portrayal of life growing up in a different time period and what has made her the strong woman she is today.
Jerry Nunn: Hi, Pam. I have been reading your book. It is so well written.
Pam Grier: Oh my God, I really worked on my dangling participles, thank you. It really was an arduous project. I don’t think everyone is running to write a book because you have to revisit so many instances and circumstances. I had to pick myself up off the floor again.
JN: You definitely did some revisiting.
PG: I didn’t want it to be a rambling saga. I don’t know how many other autobiographies of celebrities and politicians with various statures in the community I picked up their books to see how they structured their memoirs. I had to do something that would really represent my work. I wanted it to have a beginning, middle and an end. I wrote it like a screenplay because there was so much information.
JN: You had to cover your whole life.
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Nora Dunn first cracked up audiences on the show Saturday Night Live with her impersonations from Liza Minnelli to Ann Landers. She has continued a long career on television with recent roles on Private Practice and Entourage. She bounces back and forth with the cinema as well with Pineapple Express and It’s Complicated. By phone we talked Nunn on Dunn.
