(From the Best of State of the Arts - Original Air Date: January 24, 2011) Sterling and
Stroili talk high and low tech about computers and the internet. Top TV producer/writer Maxine Lapiduss
(Roseanne, Home Improvement, Foxworthy, Ellen, Dharma & Greg) is interviewed about her love of singing
and stand-up comedy, and her return to performing. The Live Arts Calendar features the hysterical and
stirring adventure Cyrano at the Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, CA. and Traces, an acrobatic spectacle
of circus, physical theatre, music and dance at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling reviews
Louis Van Amstel's Ballroom with a Twist at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Successful television
actor Blair Hickey discusses his entrepreneurial skills as the co-founder of CastingAbout.com, and gives
proactive advice to actors about how to promote themselves during TV "pilot" season. Lapiduss and Hickey
their reveal worst career experiences.
