{"title":"Dinah Lenney","description":"Mary Lou Belli is the coauthor of The Sitcom Career Book, published by Back Stage Books. An Emmy Award-winning director, she has worked on Girlfriends, The Hughleys, Major Dad, and Charles in Charge, among many other shows. She is the mother of two children who act professionally. She lives in Los Angeles.  Dinah Lenney is an adjunct professor at UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television. An actor as well as an acting teacher, she is currently appearing on ER as the no-nonsense nurse Shirley. She lives in Los Angeles.","products":[{"product_id":"acting-for-young-actors-for-money-or-just-for-fun-paperback","title":"Acting for Young Actors: For Money or Just for Fun - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo you know a teen that's been bitten by the acting bug? Here's just the book they need! \u003ci\u003eActing for Young Actors\u003c\/i\u003e, aimed at teens and tweens, lets kids hone their skills and develop their craft. It begins with the five W's: WHO am I? WHAT do I want? WHY do I want it? WHERE am I? WHEN does this event take place? Sounds basic - but many young child actors are told simply to \"get up there and act.\" This book explores each of these questions, using helpful exercises to allow young actors to work through problems of character identity and motivation. 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For his daughter, Dinah Lenney, the parent of her own young children, the loss sparked a self-reckoning that led to this book, which is both a meditation on grief and a coming of age story. By turns funny and sad, frustrating and fulfilling, her candid memoir conducts readers through marriage and divorce, blended and broken families--and, finally, the kinds of conflict that infect the best of us under the best of circumstances. In the end, Lenney leaves us with the sense that in spite of extraordinary events--as with most families--it is mutual forgiveness and love that lead us to empathy, acceptance, and the will to carry on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67928313757919,"sku":"9780803229761","price":32.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/eFLLjFKGXX9780803229761.webp?v=1791265940"},{"product_id":"bigger-than-life-a-murder-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Bigger Than Life: A Murder, a Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eNelson Gross led an outsized life--one in which he played many roles: father, brother, husband, politician, entrepreneur. When he was killed by a couple of teenagers in a botched abduction and robbery, the murder shook his family in predictable and terrible ways. 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In the end, Lenney leaves us with the sense that in spite of extraordinary events--as with most families--it is mutual forgiveness and love that lead us to empathy, acceptance, and the will to carry on.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67961639928031,"sku":"9780803232679","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pFIlFZVd_89780803232679.webp?v=1791683488"},{"product_id":"the-object-parade-essays-paperback","title":"The Object Parade: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? 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Each object comes with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her coming of age as a daughter, mother, actor, and writer: the piano that holds secrets to family history and inheritance; the gifted watches that tell so much more than time; the little black dress that carries all of youth's love and longing; the purple scarf that stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles, across stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRead together or apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic of life and love, of moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; of coming to terms with place, relationship, failures, and success; of dealing with up-ended notions about home and family and career and aging, too. Taken together, they add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky life, lovingly remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the ties that bind the passage of time.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67964442968287,"sku":"9781619025394","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PcrRmlVITW9781619025394.webp?v=1791715962"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/dinah-lenney.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}