Hanging with Charmaine Gordon (But Not With Beer)
Today I welcome Charmain Gordon to the Beer Bar.
Liz, please pour me a half glass of Chardonnay and let’s begin. Any more will have me tap dancing on the bar. Really. Been there/Done that.
Um…sorry doll, but this here is a BEER BAR….so I'll have to say "have some of Ann Arbor's finest (tap water)"…And my manager guy Josh tolerates zero bar dancing, trust me. I've "been there/done that."
Tell us about yourself.
Charmaine Gordon is my name, in marriage, acting, and my latest career as an author. Too many names might muddy the water so I keep it simple.
Re: Women who survive and thrive. That’s my credo. Keep a sense of humor, take one step forward and move on. Otherwise you go slip sliding backwards and then where are you? In No-where-ville.
After years of good daughter, faithful Air Force Wife and mother of too many, this caterpillar morphed into a butterfly and spread wings to fly into NYC. An actor friend suggested I was ready and needed a few classes in commercial acting. And I did, landing my first audition in an off Broadway Play as one of the two leads. What a kick! Then, after an interview with an agent who told me I was a woman of indeterminate age and limited resume and would never be cast with all the prominent actors vying for work, I left thinking, “Someone’s got to get the job so why not me?” With that attitude, and the fact that I didn’t expect to be a star, I booked walk on and under fives on daytime drama and sometimes background artist (extras). Cool and so much fun. And I became known as the actor who knew how to walk through swing doors and not let them continue to swing. A skill like no other.
Here’s a tidbit from the sweet time. In the movie Working Girl, I sang Happy Birthday to Melanie Griffith and carried the balloons. Mike Nichols selected me out of all the panting actors. During lunch break I first heard the phrase “Don’t speak to The Stars.” Hmm, I thought. Never shy, I sauntered over to Harrison Ford standing alone eating a hot dog at the unfinished World Trade Center Building #7. Smiling, I said, “You were seriously sexy in Witness when you sang in the barn, “Don’t Know Much About History.”
Liz: I need another beer…hang on….(Love me some Harrison Ford)
He grinned his adorable lopsided grin and together we sang the song, shared the remainder of the hot dog and whirled around in the sunshine on a chilly spring morning.
Another sweet time happened at Lake Mohonk, a beautiful lodge upstate NY where Anthony Hopkins starred in a film being shot up there. I was booked for a month. The second day there, I sat in a corridor in costume waiting for my call and the man headed straight toward me. He stopped, put ou” his hand. “Tony here.” I introduced myself. “Let’s have lunch.” Next thing I knew, we were arm in arm entering a private dining room where the elite were dining on filet mignon, red roasted potatoes shaped like mushrooms and steamed spinach.
Liz: Hmmm….hopefully you guys skipped the fava beans and a nice Chianti….
I don’t know how these things happened but they did and that’s why I call my years of acting the sweet time.
Now I write and instead of instant gratification with applause, applause, I sit in my small cluttered office and bring fictional characters to life.
LIZ: wowzer….well let's see the official bio
Bio: Charmaine Gordon writes books about women who Survive and Thrive. Her motto is take one step and then another to leave your past behind and begin again. Six books and several short stories in three years, she’s always at work on the next story. The books include To Be Continued, Starting Over, Now What?, Reconstructing Charlie, Sin of Omission and The Catch. And a new series of Mature Romances about Sexy Seniors under the umbrella title The Beginning. . .Not The End.“I didn’t realize at the time while working as an actor in NYC, I’d become a sponge soaking up dialogue, setting, and stage directions. I learned many tools of writing during the years watching directors like Mike Nichols and actors including Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, and Billy Crystal. And would you believe, I was Geraldine Ferraro’s stand-in leg model, my first job giving me entrée into all the Unions needed to work. When the sweet time ended, I began another career and creative juices flowed.”
My latest release is titled She Didn’t Say No.
Blurb:
Another Mature Romance... with a twist!
Grace didn’t say no to the Big Man On Campus, Scott Dwyer. And then her life changed...Grace makes her way to a new town and with the kindness of strangers, establishes a business called The Pet Emporium where she grooms , what else? Dogs and cats.Years later, a too-close encounter of an unpleasant kind with a skunk and Scott’s German Shepherd reunites the former lovers.What happens in between are their stories of beginnings and endings and love lost, then found.
Coming Soon in Audio!http://www.amazon.com/She-Didnt-Say-Beginning-Not/dp/0615959865
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I1MRP9S
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-shedidn039tsayno-1404960-149.html https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/400933
http://youtu.be/fdBbIVdBXXo
You can reach Charmaine at http://authorCharmaineGordon.wordpress.com
And on her FB page http://www.facebook.com/charmaine.gordon
Twitter @CharJGordon
Thanks, Liz and before I leave, another half glass of Chardonnay , please. It’s been fun visiting with you.
Oh heavens….people, I own a BEER BAR …. your chardonnays are down the street at the TGI Fridays, sorry!
BUT Charmaine is offering a free copy of her new book for the awesome-ist comment below….let us know what you think about her and her new book. I'm a total fan of this lady now!
But I must leave you with this visual:
Liz, please pour me a half glass of Chardonnay and let’s begin. Any more will have me tap dancing on the bar. Really. Been there/Done that.
Um…sorry doll, but this here is a BEER BAR….so I'll have to say "have some of Ann Arbor's finest (tap water)"…And my manager guy Josh tolerates zero bar dancing, trust me. I've "been there/done that."
Tell us about yourself.
Charmaine Gordon is my name, in marriage, acting, and my latest career as an author. Too many names might muddy the water so I keep it simple.
Re: Women who survive and thrive. That’s my credo. Keep a sense of humor, take one step forward and move on. Otherwise you go slip sliding backwards and then where are you? In No-where-ville.
After years of good daughter, faithful Air Force Wife and mother of too many, this caterpillar morphed into a butterfly and spread wings to fly into NYC. An actor friend suggested I was ready and needed a few classes in commercial acting. And I did, landing my first audition in an off Broadway Play as one of the two leads. What a kick! Then, after an interview with an agent who told me I was a woman of indeterminate age and limited resume and would never be cast with all the prominent actors vying for work, I left thinking, “Someone’s got to get the job so why not me?” With that attitude, and the fact that I didn’t expect to be a star, I booked walk on and under fives on daytime drama and sometimes background artist (extras). Cool and so much fun. And I became known as the actor who knew how to walk through swing doors and not let them continue to swing. A skill like no other.
Here’s a tidbit from the sweet time. In the movie Working Girl, I sang Happy Birthday to Melanie Griffith and carried the balloons. Mike Nichols selected me out of all the panting actors. During lunch break I first heard the phrase “Don’t speak to The Stars.” Hmm, I thought. Never shy, I sauntered over to Harrison Ford standing alone eating a hot dog at the unfinished World Trade Center Building #7. Smiling, I said, “You were seriously sexy in Witness when you sang in the barn, “Don’t Know Much About History.”
Liz: I need another beer…hang on….(Love me some Harrison Ford)
He grinned his adorable lopsided grin and together we sang the song, shared the remainder of the hot dog and whirled around in the sunshine on a chilly spring morning.
Another sweet time happened at Lake Mohonk, a beautiful lodge upstate NY where Anthony Hopkins starred in a film being shot up there. I was booked for a month. The second day there, I sat in a corridor in costume waiting for my call and the man headed straight toward me. He stopped, put ou” his hand. “Tony here.” I introduced myself. “Let’s have lunch.” Next thing I knew, we were arm in arm entering a private dining room where the elite were dining on filet mignon, red roasted potatoes shaped like mushrooms and steamed spinach.
Liz: Hmmm….hopefully you guys skipped the fava beans and a nice Chianti….
I don’t know how these things happened but they did and that’s why I call my years of acting the sweet time.
Now I write and instead of instant gratification with applause, applause, I sit in my small cluttered office and bring fictional characters to life.
LIZ: wowzer….well let's see the official bio
Bio: Charmaine Gordon writes books about women who Survive and Thrive. Her motto is take one step and then another to leave your past behind and begin again. Six books and several short stories in three years, she’s always at work on the next story. The books include To Be Continued, Starting Over, Now What?, Reconstructing Charlie, Sin of Omission and The Catch. And a new series of Mature Romances about Sexy Seniors under the umbrella title The Beginning. . .Not The End.“I didn’t realize at the time while working as an actor in NYC, I’d become a sponge soaking up dialogue, setting, and stage directions. I learned many tools of writing during the years watching directors like Mike Nichols and actors including Harrison Ford, Anthony Hopkins, and Billy Crystal. And would you believe, I was Geraldine Ferraro’s stand-in leg model, my first job giving me entrée into all the Unions needed to work. When the sweet time ended, I began another career and creative juices flowed.”
My latest release is titled She Didn’t Say No.
Blurb:
Another Mature Romance... with a twist!
Grace didn’t say no to the Big Man On Campus, Scott Dwyer. And then her life changed...Grace makes her way to a new town and with the kindness of strangers, establishes a business called The Pet Emporium where she grooms , what else? Dogs and cats.Years later, a too-close encounter of an unpleasant kind with a skunk and Scott’s German Shepherd reunites the former lovers.What happens in between are their stories of beginnings and endings and love lost, then found.
Coming Soon in Audio!http://www.amazon.com/She-Didnt-Say-Beginning-Not/dp/0615959865
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I1MRP9S
https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-shedidn039tsayno-1404960-149.html https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/400933
http://youtu.be/fdBbIVdBXXo
You can reach Charmaine at http://authorCharmaineGordon.wordpress.com
And on her FB page http://www.facebook.com/charmaine.gordon
Twitter @CharJGordon
Thanks, Liz and before I leave, another half glass of Chardonnay , please. It’s been fun visiting with you.
Oh heavens….people, I own a BEER BAR …. your chardonnays are down the street at the TGI Fridays, sorry!
BUT Charmaine is offering a free copy of her new book for the awesome-ist comment below….let us know what you think about her and her new book. I'm a total fan of this lady now!
But I must leave you with this visual:
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