How to steal the moon

Anna takes her break in the back behind the kitchen. She tells Vicky to cover her tables for ten and bums a Kool off the dishboy. Slow night. Shit for tips and two hours left in the shift. Her feet ache and she's got a head full of bad math - a slim check minus the rent minus the power minus the heat minus the escalating costs of the bare minimum of living... she shakes it off with a long menthol sigh and leans her head back against the coolness of the brick wall behind her.
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Adage it up

I was talking with an actor friend of mine last night, while we were going over a few details about our upcoming show. Out of the blue he laid this little adage down on me: "Y'know the old saying they have? That TV is the writers medium, movies are the directors medium and that theater ... theater is the actors medium."

"Really?" I said doubtfully.

"Think about it... no matter how much money you got with a TV show, if the writing sucks the show will sink..."

"Ok" I give him that one.

"..and it don't matter how good the script is or how many A-List actors you have on the set... if you don't have a decent director your movies gonna blow..."

Yeah I can think of some movies that sucked despite the odds so I give him that one as well.

"...and when you're dealing with theater. It all comes down to the actor in the end."

"Reallly?" I snort not so sure.

"Of course. The actor makes or breaks a play."

"Riiiight... so lemme ask you this real quick: Who was the greatest actor of Shakespeare's time again?"

He gives me a weird look that i've learned to interpert as 'I-don't-know-where-you're-going-with-this!'

"Alright fair enough. Who was the famous actor that 'made' all those Eugene O'neill plays so good?"

"It doesn't work that..."

"You're right man... i'm sorry. To tell you the truth i'm not so hot with history myself... so let me ask you this... who won the Tony last year... or hell maybe you can name me one of the stars who 'made' Angels in America?"

My buddy narrows his eyes at me with a look that tells me to 'Eat shit and die'.

"Y'know there's another old saying..."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah! You know the one about how even the worst actor always gets laid more often than the best writer? So let me ask you this... do you think that's not true either?"

We both just look at each other silently. This time it's his turn to smirk and for me to shoot the 'Eat-shit-and-die' look.

"That's what I thought" He says. And with that he tips his rain cap politely and makes his way out the door to spend another night in his lovely wives bed.

Oh well I should've stuck with TV I guess...