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Sandra Seacat is an American actor, director, and acting teacher; it is the latter role in which she's had by far the greatest impact, and for which, almost certainly, she'll be best remembered.

Career

Arriving either in 1936 or 1937, Sandra Diane Seacat was the first of three daughters born to Russell Henry and Lois Marion Seacat of Yates Center, Kansas,[1][2] from whence, some years later, she'd make her way to New York and the Actors Studio, where, over the course of time, she would begin to carve out for herself an important, albeit frustratingly elusive, place in the history of acting, particularly screen acting.[3] This elusiveness (made manifest in the very vagueness of the biographical details on display in this article, to say nothing of their paucity) would seem to stem, in large part, from Seacat's own abhorrence of publicity, and her exceeding regard for both her clients', and her own, privacy.[4]

While these scruples have not prevented her from attaining near legendary status within the industry,[5][6][7] outside that select circle, Seacat was, and remains, the prototypical 'best kept secret.' Even the one momentary disruption of this status quo - i.e. the brief theatrical run of 1990's In the Spirit (Seacat's lone directorial film credit), when critical references to the "respected,"[8] "renowned,"[9] "famous,"[10] and even "legendary"[11] acting coach were rife - failed to generate a single magazine or newspaper article taking her, or her dramatic career detour, as its subject.

When the unevenly executed and indifferently marketed ITS died its predictable box office death, the Seacat 'status quo' returned, and with it, the accustomed widespread anonymity. This "most respected acting coach" has continued to labor in obscurity ever since, a paradox which may not particularly trouble Ms. Seacat, but which has left her career so monumentally undocumented as to cause one to wonder what her place in posterity will be. The reality of this concern was brought home vividly when the question was raised recently as to whether the life and works of Sandra Seacat are sufficiently noteworthy to merit this article's existence. A curious state of affairs to be sure, and one which would likely prove puzzling to the scores of Hollywood heavyweights helped by Seacat over the years.

A representative smattering of those grateful but potentially puzzled participants might include Mickey Rourke,[12][13][14][15] Marlo Thomas,[16] Jessica Lange,[17][18][19] Lance Henriksen,[20] Harvey Keitel,[21] Isabella Rossellini,[22][23][24] Steve Railsback,[25][26] Rachel Ward,[27][28][29] Treat Williams,[30]Laura Dern,[31][32] Meg Ryan,[33] Michelle Pfeiffer,[34] Mikhail Baryshnikov,[35][36] Peter Falk,[37] Gina Gershon,[38] and Melanie Griffith.[39] Moreover, a number of Ms. Seacat's associates, both colleagues and acolytes, have been inspired to follow her example, pursuing teaching in addition to, and/or in lieu of, their original chosen profession.[40][41][42][43][44][45] In recent years, one may also number among their ranks, Seacat's daughter Greta[46] (aka Greta B. Kaufman).[47]

As mentioned above, the sole director's credit in Seacat's filmography is 1990's In the Spirit (which actually completed shooting between June and November of 1988)[48][49][50], a leisurely paced genre hodgepodge (contemporary screwball comedy[51]/New Age satire[52][53]/murder mystery[54]/female buddy film[55]) featuring at least three Seacat alumni, namely Marlo Thomas, Peter Falk, and Melanie Griffith, as well as the newly hot commodity, Olympia Dukakis, fresh off her best supporting actress Oscar win for Moonstruck. Arguably the film's casting coup, however (and probably the positive element most frequently cited by reviewers), was landing the celebrated writer/performer Elaine May,[56][57][58][59] who, along with Thomas, comprise the film's 'Odd Couple' protagonists. Seacat also cast May's daughter Jeannie Berlin, who, along with Laurie Jones, had also co-authored the film's screenplay; Jones was also cast in a minor role. The remainder of the film's cast would reflect its homegrown Big Apple bent, featuring an assortment of local luminaries, some of them professional actors, some not.[60] Moreover, making his film debut here was Seacat's current husband, Thurn Hoffman.[61][62]

The film's critical reception would prove mixed at best, but almost all acknowledged Seacat's stature in her accustomed field (if only, in some cases, for the express purpose of counseling her, in so many words, not to give up her day job).[63]

Filmography

Except where otherwise indicated, these are acting credits; without exception, at least from 1980 on, they are relatively minor roles, some virtually non-existent. In at least two instances (i.e. Frances and Nobody's Child) no trace whatsoever of Seacat's performance seems to have survived the final cut. In each of those films, as in almost all of these, at least one cast member is an acknowledged Seacat student/client; in at least a few (e.g. the previously mentioned pair as well as In the Cut), her crucial, and, in the former instances, uncredited, role, in shaping an acclaimed performance has been widely reported. In that light, it is perhaps not unreasonable to wonder whether a similar scenario might not be in play throughout much of this filmography - i.e. Seacat's uncredited, or, at least, discreetly mis-credited, creative collaboration. With that possibility in mind, the relevant cast member(s), where known, are itemized for each film.

References and Notes

  1. ^ 1940 U.S. Census form
  2. ^ HutchNews.com - Obituaries: Lois Marion Seacat; posted 12/23/2007 12:49 AM | Last update: 12/23/2007 12:51 AM. "On March 12, 1932, she married Russell Henry Seacat in Greensburg. He preceded her in death. Survivors include three daughters: Sandra Diane Seacat and husband Thurn Hoffman, Santa Monica, Cali., Sherrell Kay Heft, and husband Dayle, Greensburg, and Serena Sue Seacat and husband George Ryan, East Hampton, New York..."
  3. ^ Sarah Kershaw: "The Role of Their Dreams," The New York Times (May 6, 2009). "In the last decade, dream work, as it is known, has spread into actors studios and classrooms across the country, taking its place among the ever expanding techniques of actor training and in the long-running debate over what leads to the most authentic performances. Dream work grew largely out of Method acting, and it is now being taught at the New York home of the Method, the Actors Studio, and by several teachers in Los Angeles and elsewhere... Actors in particular appear to be drawn to the work of Jung, who once wrote, 'The dream is a theater in which the dreamer is himself the scene, the player, the prompter, the author, the producer, the public and the critic.' Jung’s theories were first adapted for actor training in the early 1980s by Sandra Seacat, an actress and acting coach, who went on to work with Ms. Ryan, Mr. Keitel and many others."
  4. ^ Witness Sandra Seacat at TAKEHOLLYWOOD, wherein the featured video is accompanied by the site's regretful acknowledgment of, and accession to, Seacat's request not to divulge the names of any of her clients (to be sure, a refreshing departure from the norm, as typified by Gary Spatz and Tom Todoroff, two other TH videos featuring acting coaches); contrast this with said clients, who, as we will see shortly, are scarcely shy about dropping Seacat's name and/or singing her praises. Even less so, her onetime protégés/assistants, now offering their own services as teachers/coaches. None of these examples, it should be noted, are in any way intended to disparage the parties in question (name-dropping being, after all, neither extraordinary nor improper, but merely a necessary part of doing business); rather, they aim to highlight the reputation which precedes Ms. Seacat, i.e. one whose magnitude renders such tactics superfluous.
  5. ^ John Anderson: "Laura Dern: A Hollywood Old-Timer at 37," The Baltimore Sun (Monday, August 23, 2004). "'Laura is a free spirit,' says Sandra Seacat, the celebrated acting coach and a longtime associate of Dern's.'"
  6. ^ Todd Leopold: Actress' role of a lifetime: Being a mentor CNN, updated 10:40 AM EST, Mon February 13, 2012. "She had found a new career, for which she's quick to credit others -- Kazan, legendary acting coaches Lee Strasberg and Sandra Seacat, director Arthur Penn, current Actors Studio head Ellen Burstyn -- for her success."
  7. ^ John Moore: "Boulder draws young movie stars," The Denver Post (Friday, August 3, 2007). "But that also helps make Boulder the ideal location, said Seacat, who has followed her mother's career path as an acting coach. Sandra Seacat, once a Lee Strasberg disciple, is considered one of the foremost coaches in the nation."
  8. ^ NY Times & LA Daily News (April 6 & 11, 1990)
  9. ^ "'In the Spirit': Grand And Goofy Comedy‎," The Washington Post (Friday, May 18, 1990)
  10. ^ 'IN THE SPIRIT' -- AN ENDEARING MESS The Boston Globe (Friday, June 8, 1990)
  11. ^ Sheila Benson: "FILM REVIEW `Spirit' Loses Its Comic Flair Halfway Through‎," The Los Angeles Times (April 11, 1990)
  12. ^ Jennifer Allen: "Bad Boy: Actor Mickey Rourke is a hard case with a heart," New York Magazine (November 14, 1983), pp. 39, 40. "He studied with Sandra Seacat, an acting coach with her own studio, who became his mentor for the next six years..."
  13. ^ Al Cohn, editor: "People: The Rising Star Has an Identity Problem," Newsday (Friday, June 29, 1984), p. 9. "A former Actors Studio student ('I sat there a year, waiting for the teacup to develop in my hand'), he relied on the training of an acting coach, Sandra Seacat, and 'that's when everything started to click.'"
  14. ^ Clarke Taylor: "MICKEY ROURKE: STRAIGHT ON‎: A Painful Past is Valuable Prologue to an Acting Career Aimed at Making 'Uncompromising Movies With Good Characters," The Los Angeles Times (Tuesday, July 24, 1984), pp. F1, F8. "He found New York drama coach Sandra Seacat, whom he credited with 'channeling all it was that was messing me up into something creative and challenging.'"
  15. ^ Julian Schnabel: "Mickey," Interview (November 2005), pp. 122-128. "JS: How did you get into the Actors Studio? MR: It was back in the day when they used to take only three or four people out of thousands. I was studying at the time with an acting teacher named Sandra Seacat, and I was working on a scene from a Tennessee Williams' play. It was a scene between a father and son, and I wasn't doing it very well because I couldn't relate to a father figure because I never had one. So my acting teacher said, 'If you want to pass this exam, you need to go an find your father.' And I had only met him once, when I was a boy. So a day or two before my test, I called up some family members that I didn?t know on my father's side, and I went to upstate New York, and I introduced myself to my father because my teacher told me that it would help with my being able to relate to a father. JS: I guess it did, no? MR: Yeah, it certainly did -- especially because Elia Kazan [who co-founded the Actors Studio] said it was the best scene he'd seen in 30 years."
  16. ^ Marlo Thomas (2010). "Obsession". Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny. New York: Hyperion. p. 210. ISBN 0-13-367870-9. I only wish Lee [Strasberg] could have lived to se me portray a schizohprenic in Nobody's Child. I never could have gotten near playing that kind of part without Lee's exercises, and the subsequent work I did and continue to do with his primary disciple, the brilliant Sandra Seacat. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help)
  17. ^ Frances Farmer -The Making of Frances - Assembled, edited and provided by Dario Recla, updated Aug. '99, based on material previously featured in the book Jessica Lange - A Biography (1986) by J.T. Jeffries, in the Frances movie pressbook and in the Frances - Original Motion Picture Score CD booklet (Limited Gold Edition, 1997). "If Hollywood was waiting for Jessica Lange to fall on her face, they had come to the wrong woman. Lange, as producer Sanger put it to The New York Times, 'obviously had more acting training than anybody knew.' In the spring of 1981, Lange worked on each scene with her coach, Sandra Seacat. Seacat had been an important and influential member of the Group Theatre herself [sic*], and had expanded her theatrical repertoire in recent years to include techniques from Eastern meditation. Lange regularly used those deep relaxation techniques on the set to improve her concentration in the grueling role.." * With all due respect to the party responsible for this passage (presumably J.T. Jeffries), the Group Theatre - whose demise came in 1941, when Seacat was, at most, 5 years old - is perhaps being confused with its offshoot, the Actors Studio.
  18. ^ Noel Holston: "Inside the Actor's Studio," The Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Wednesday, June 12, 1996), p. 10E. "Taking her turn as interviewee of Bravo's 'Inside the Actor's Studio' (9 p.m., BRV), Oscar-winning Stillwater resident Jessica Lange talks generally about her experiences at the renowned school and specifically of how her theatrical coach, Sandra Seacat, and fellow studio member Kim Stanley helped her shape her remarkable performance as Frances Farmer in 1982's "Frances.'"
  19. ^ "Jessica Lange," Vanity Fair (October 1988). "She never worked with Strasberg, but she did work with one of his acting-teacher disciples, Sandra Seacat. 'She really changed things around for me. She got me at the moment where it was all beginning to come alive. and it was a great ....'"
  20. ^ Gavin Smith: "Don't Let That Go: That's Valuable [Lance Henriksen interview]," Film Comment (September 1993, Volume 29, Issue 5), p. 54. "I had a wonderful acting teacher, Sandra Seacat, and one of the things she taught was she'd put a book on a chair and all you did was ask questions about that book: is it a good book or a lousy book? Who made the binding? Why don't I want to read it? Why would I want to read it? How long has it been sitting there? It's a very simple exercise but I do that all the time, constantly question myself and my surroundings, not in a negative way but in a positive way that leads toward my character."
  21. ^ Lance Carter: "Have you heard of “The Way”?" Daily Actor, May 7, 2009. "Jung’s theories were first adapted for actor training in the early 1980s by Sandra Seacat, an actress and acting coach, who went on to work with Ms. Ryan, Mr. Keitel and many others."
  22. ^ Ann Kolson: "Isabella Rossellini: 'No Comparisons," The Pittsburgh Press (Sunday, December 22, 1985), p. E9. "Determined, she returned to New York, engaged acting coach Sandra Seacat and practiced speaking like a Russian. She met twice more with Hackford; she screen-tested; Hines liked her;the filmmakers became more interested and paid for the Russian lessons."
  23. ^ Charles Champlin: "Critic At Large : Rossellini Shines On Her Own In 'White Nights'," The Los Angeles Times (Thursday, November 14, 1985), pp. J-1, J-17. "'I wanted to see for myself if I liked acting, and if I had any ability. I was pregnant and terribly fat, but I started going to acting classes.' She found a coach, Sandra Seacat, she much admired, and started working with her. 'All of a sudden it seemed to be fun and passionate and interesting.'"
  24. ^ "Rossellini's Well-Known Face Opens Up Whole New Worlds for Her," The Los Angeles Times (Friday, November 22, 1985). "I worked with Sandra Seacat. I was really glad I worked with her - and I still do."
  25. ^ Conversation with Sandra Seacat, October 1974.
  26. ^ Winthrop Rockefeller Institute Film Forum Faculty: "Her past and current clients include Mickey Rourke, Meg Ryan, Steve Railsback, Jessica Lange, and Laura Dern, who thanked Seacat when she accepted a best actress award at The Golden Globe Awards in January 2012."
  27. ^ William Wilkins: "'Thorn Birds' Star Enthused: Chamberlain Role Pursuit Succeeds," The Oxnard Press-Courier (Sunday, March 27, 1983), TV WEEK, p. 3. "I was determined to show them what I really could do. It was a challenge. I hired a drama coach (Sondra Seacat) [sic], studied exhaustively for two weeks, went back and did a screen test with Richard. I must have improved considerably because I ended up getting the part."
  28. ^ Fred Rothenberg: "'Thorn Birds' Casting Gamble," The Lewiston Journal (Tuesday, March 29, 1983), p. 24. "Miss Ward's first reading before producers David Wolper and Stan Margulies was disastrous. So she hired drama coach Sondra [sic] Seacat, who also helped turn Jessica Lange from King Kong's consort into the soulful actress in 'Frances' and 'Tootsie.' Margulies said Miss Ward's second reading 'was so breathtaking that she got the part right there."
  29. ^ Marilynn Preston: "Tempo: 'Thorn Birds' gives Ward chance to win her wings," The Chicago Tribune (Tuesday, March 29, 1983), Section 2, page 1. "Ward's inexperience was noticeable, especially to her. She had taken acting lessons before, but she believed she needed help - fast - and wound up getting it from a talented acting coach named Sandra Seacat. Seacat saved her, and in the end, Ward saved herself. You can almost see her develop as an actress in 'Thorn Birds'... By the finish, her Meggie is much stronger, more worldly, compassionate. The changes were in character, but they were taking place in Ward too. Thanks, in large part, to Seacat. 'She's extraordinary,' Ward says. 'She made me work in a totally different way than I'd ever worked before. For the first time, I really worked on technique.' For Seacat, Ward stopped smoking, stopped eating meat, started to exercise every day, learned to calm her mind and focus on the moment. 'It was definitely not an easy five months,' she said quietly. 'It was a lot of tying things together and understanding and confusion and frustration and anger. I asked a lot of questions about acting and about me and stuff, and Sandra just had these answers, and they were just like, of course, oh my God, of course!'"
  30. ^ Jane Marla Robbins (2002). "Relaxation". Acting Techniques for Everyday Life: Look and Feel Self-Confident in Difficult Real-Life Situations. New York: Marlowe & Company. p. 57. ISBN 1-56924-554-1. Two of my teachers, John Lehne and Sandra Seacat, who both studied with Lee Strasberg, emphasized a wonderful relaxation technique in their classes... John was Jill Clayburgh's teacher, and Sandra taught Jessica Lange, Mickey Rourke, and Treat Williams. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help)
  31. ^ Jamie Painter Young: "Profile: Defining Moments Backstage West (November 22-28, 2001), pp. 6-7. "BSW: Having acted for more than 20 years, how do you feel you've grown most in terms of your acting process? Dern: Through studying and through being raised on movie sets, I was surrounded by a lot of people who believed that the more tortured the person, the greater the artist. I always had a hard time understanding that, but thought, I guess that's the way it is. I thought that the more pain you experience, the better you'll become. Luckily through life and the gift of the acting teacher who's changed my life in so many ways since 1984--her name is Sandra Seacat--I learned there's another opinion, which is: the better the person, the better the artist. The more true you are to who you are and the more honest you are as an individual, the more honest you can be as an actor, and I'm really liking that. BSW: Do you still study acting? Dern: I still study with Sandra and I love studying."
  32. ^ John Anderson: "Laura Dern: A Hollywood Old-Timer at 37," The Baltimore Sun (Monday, August 23, 2004). "'Laura is a free spirit,' says Sandra Seacat, the celebrated acting coach and a longtime associate of Dern's. 'She's also a great student and a dedicated artist - and there aren't very many people I call artists.'"
  33. ^ "Campion, Jane: In the Cut," Urban Cinefile (November 13, 2003). "The script was in development and being workshopped with Sandra Seacat, the guru drama coach at The Actors Studio with whom Harvey Keitel works (another connection from The Piano). “Sandra rang up when she heard that Nicole Kidman may not play the part, and she urged me to consider Meg Ryan. She said ‘you can’t believe her work; it’s amazing and dramatic and strong and she loves this part."
  34. ^ James Lipton (2007). Inside Inside. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-95035-4. Mike Nichols called Michelle 'a true actress, the kind you dream of, on time and friendly and open to whatever's happening.' She shared with our students what she'd learned from noted teacher Sandra Seacat. 'Sandra believes that every part you play is really a part of you, a way for you to work out something in your past, something in your present.' {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help)
  35. ^ Reuters: "Baryshnikov natural for movie," The Windsor Star (Wenesday, December 18, 1985), p. D12. "Hackford says he and Actor's Studio coach Sandra Seacat worked extensively on acting with Baryshnikov, who had only 'Turning Point' to his credit."
  36. ^ Alan M. Kriegsman: "The Screening of Baryshnikov: From the Ballet Stage to a Cinematic Star Turn," The Washington Post (Friday, December 6, 1985), p. C11. "He says he benefited greatly from the training he undertook with Actors Studio coach Sandra Seacat, whom he'd met earlier through [Jessica] Lange. One of the main things was she helped me relax in front of the camera,' he says. 'The best acting I did on the set was in the improvisations before the takes - that gave me real satisfaction. But keeping the level when the camera was going, that was completely something else. Technicians placing the camera, the director behind you, your throat is dry, and you're trying to forget everything, all distractions, and ask yourself what is this scene really about - that's when the hard work starts.'"
  37. ^ Peggy Lipton with David and Coco Dalton (2005). "Gurumayi". Breathing Out. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 240–242. ISBN 0-312-32413-8. It was there I met the consummate actor and all around interesting guy, Peter Falk... he gave me the number of Sandra Seacat. She was his teacher and he said I would like her class and the way she worked... I ended up studying with Sandra for the next two months. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help)
  38. ^ "Trivia," The Bangor Daily News (Saturday/Sunday, February 28-29, 2004), TV Watch: p. 15. "Gina Gershon ('Tripping the Rift') studied acting in New York with Sandra Seacat and writer-director David Mamet."
  39. ^ "Carter tackles the wonders of history," USA Today (August 15, 1994). "... she started commuting to New York to meet with acting coach Sandra Seacat, who also works with Melanie Griffith, Marlo Thomas and Tatum O'Neal. The experience was 'better than any therapist,' she says."
  40. ^ Todd Leopold: Actress' role of a lifetime: Being a mentor CNN, updated 10:40 AM EST, Mon February 13, 2012. "One class led to others, and one day she ran into an Actors Studio acquaintance who suggested she teach at the Studio's new graduate program. She had found a new career, for which she's quick to credit others -- Kazan, legendary acting coaches Lee Strasberg and Sandra Seacat, director Arthur Penn, current Actors Studio head Ellen Burstyn -- for her success."
  41. ^ Sheila Gray - The Drama Continues: "Her first mentor was Sandra Seacat, an Actor's Studio member and Method- based teacher who also teaches dream work... She began teaching for Sandra in 1992 and by 1993 had found her true calling."
  42. ^ The Actor's Intensive with Kirk Baltz: Instructor Kirk Baltz has been a working actor since 1987 after studying in New York with Greg Zittle, an apprentice of Sanford Meisner. He has since studied with Sandra Seacat, Susan Batson, Tony Greco, Penny Allen, and others.
  43. ^ Creative Dream Work "Founded by Kim Gillingham in 1999, Creative Dream Work helps artists and creative professionals create authentic work and live more authentic lives by teaching them how to access and integrate rich, undiscovered material from the unconscious... She continues to study with the eminent Jungian analyst and author Marion Woodman and was once a protégé of acting coach Sandra Seacat."
  44. ^ Jane Marla Robbins (2002). "Relaxation". Acting Techniques for Everyday Life: Look and Feel Self-Confident in Difficult Real-Life Situations. New York: Marlowe & Company. p. 57. ISBN 1-56924-554-1. Two of my teachers, John Lehne and Sandra Seacat, who both studied with Lee Strasberg, emphasized a wonderful relaxation technique in their classes... John was Jill Clayburgh's teacher, and Sandra taught Jessica Lange, Mickey Rourke, and Treat Williams. {{cite book}}: External link in |title= (help)
  45. ^ American Academy of Dramatic Arts faculty bio for Pamela Scott: "She studied with and assisted renowned acting coach Sandra Seacat for over ten years. Her classmates included Jessica Lange, Betty Buckley, Brooke Shields, Marlo Thomas, Gina Gerson and Don Johnson."
  46. ^ John Moore: "Boulder draws young movie stars," The Denver Post (Friday, August 3, 2007). "'The mountains and nature are the superstars here," said castmate Greta Seacat, "and that's how it should be.' ... But that also helps make Boulder the ideal location, said Seacat, who has followed her mother's career path as an acting coach. Sandra Seacat, once a Lee Strasberg disciple, is considered one of the foremost coaches in the nation."
  47. ^ Presumably her birth name, since the 49-year-old Ms. Seacat, aka Kaufman (as per her PeopleFinders.com profile), would have been born at a time (i.e. late 1962 to early 1963) coinciding with the relatively brief professional life of one Sandra Kaufman (i.e. 1962-1968, as manifested in one 1962 Village Voice Review plus the relevant portions of the Wisconsin Historical Society's Actors Studio audio collection) and well in advance of her mother's first documented professional appearance under the name Seacat in 1969 (which also happens to be the elder Ms. Seacat's first documented association with her subsequent husband, actor Michael Ebert).
  48. ^ "Cinefile," The Los Angeles Times (Sunday, June 26, 1988). "Acting guru Sondra Seacat makes her film directing debut with "In the Spirit," a comedy-thriller starring Marlo Thomas. Currently filming in NJ for Castle Hill ...."
  49. ^ NYTimes.com - 'In the Spirit' production notes
  50. ^ Liz Smith: "Churchill Book is Good Reading," The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Tuesday, December 6, 1988), p. 8E. "... they're now editing the film, seeking a distributor for release next spring."
  51. ^ Multiple results for a relevant Google News Archive search
  52. ^ Jonathan Rosenbaum: "Film Reviews," The Chicago Reader (July 1, 1990). " ... the funnier elements in the script (such as the New Age satire)..."
  53. ^ Amazon.com - Customer review posted by J. Figler. "The notion of sustaining a 'New Age Satire' soon follows him out the door, with no loss to anyone."
  54. ^ Google News Archive: multiple results
  55. ^ Variety staff: "In the Spirit," Variety (December 31, 1989). "May and Marlo Thomas make a memorable screen odd couple... Seacat emphasizes slapstick but also female bonding..."
  56. ^ Liz Smith: "Elaine May gathers quality cast together for her next movie," * The Orange County Register (Thursday, December 1, 1988). "Recent remarks here about the genius that is Elaine May brought forth the encouraging news that we'll soon see this gifted actress in a new suspense movie written by her daughter Jeannie Berlin (with co-writer Laurie Jones)." * As there is no free access to the OCR 12/1/88 story, this link is to a subsequent Sarasota Herald-Tribune reprint of this syndicated column, tacked onto the Winston Churchill-related lead item.
  57. ^ "Movie Review: 'In the Spirit'," The New York Times (Friday, April 6, 1990). "A rare appearance by Elaine May, who co-stars with Marlo Thomas in what proves to be an unexpectedly mundane caper story..."
  58. ^ "FILM REVIEW:`Spirit' Loses Its Comic Flair Halfway Through‎," The Los Angeles Times (Wednesday, April 11, 1990). "To be truthful, after a richly funny start, "In the Spirit," in which she stars, crumbles around her at ... To an Elaine May junkie, however, that is almost irrelevant.."
  59. ^ "Film Reviews: In the Spirit," Variety (December 31, 1989). "Elaine May and Marlo Thomas make a memorable screen odd couple in In the Spirit. ... Sandra Seacat emphasizes slapstick but also female bonding..."
  60. ^ The former group included both indie icons (such as Henry Jaglom's brother, and sometime leading man, Michael Emil, plus Steve Buscemi mainstays Mark Boone Junior and Rockets Redglare), as well as 'legit' stage and TV actors (e.g. Seacat's Actors Studio compadres Hope Cameron and Gary Swanson, while the latter featured such miscellaneous notables as musician Roy Nathanson, journalist Steve Powers, and playwright Christopher Durang.
  61. ^ Thurn Hoffman at IMDb
  62. ^ HutchNews.com - Obituaries: Lois Marion Seacat; posted 12/23/2007 12:49 AM | Last update: 12/23/2007 12:51 AM. "On March 12, 1932, she married Russell Henry Seacat in Greensburg. He preceded her in death. Survivors include three daughters: Sandra Diane Seacat and husband Thurn Hoffman, Santa Monica..."
  63. ^ Multiple hits from an "'In the Spirit' Sandra Seacat acting coach" keyword search
  64. ^ If not a confirmed Seacat client, Weller is at least a known Actors Studio member.
  65. ^ Arquette is at least the sibling of a satisfied Seacat customer.

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