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Who Me, Interviewing John Lennon?

Posted on November 2, 2012 by beverlymagid in Beverly's Blog

I’m always amazed at the people who start out in life knowing what they want to do and where they’re going. Sometimes I’ve envied their focused passion while I was still all over the place, going from one career to another. But lately I’ve been reflecting on the unexpected paths I’ve taken and begun to realize that I wouldn’t have had some of the adventures if I had stuck to the tried, true and expected.

For instance, there I was in Philadelphia deciding if I should accept a nursing scholarship and instead opted to become an x-ray technician. Whoa! Where did that all come from? That’s another story for another time. But that decision led to going to New York and surprisingly discovering the world of acting. A surprise which opened up all my creative juices. Little off-off-off-off Broadway theaters where sometimes the cast outnumbered the audience. But always learning to observe, to remember, to let the emotions flow. Good practice for a writer as well as an actor.

When you’re an aspiring actor, you need a flexible day-job and one that I had was working for a radio/records publication where I found myself ultimately interviewing and reviewing music and musicians. My first byline, leading to a music industry magazine and Los Angeles. Who would have expected the x-ray technician from Philadelphia to be doing one of the first interviews with John Lennon after he split from the Beatles? Sitting in a garden, sipping orange juice and ruminating with The Beatle, about fame and music and the group’s place in history. Or laughing hysterically with the group Monty Python as they answered questions in their own inimitable style, which was rowdy and raucous. Or seeing the Golden Gate Bridge glowing at sunset with a member of Blood Sweat and Tears. Or as a publicist helping to plan Paul McCartney’s party on the Queen Mary for his fist solo group, Wings. Or sitting in Venice, Italy, holding off the papparazzi from Rutger Hauer at the Venice Film Festival. Or juggling the media backstage at the Grammys after Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond had just finished their amazing duet of “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Anymore.”

And that was all before I had the rewarding, extraordinary experience of getting into writing fiction. You just never know where life can take you if you’re open to the adventure of new journeys. I reccommend it, I never worry about kids who aren’t sure of their life’s path. Give it time I say. And stay open.

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Author talk /WHERE DO I GO
Sherman Oaks Library

October 1, 6:30pm

 

“Women Made A Difference”
Discussion about women’s roles in three eras
Stephen Wise Temple

December 13, 10:30am

 

Reading for the “No Rules Book Club,”
San Diego, CA

January, 9, 2017

 

Discussion with “Dine and Discuss,” women’s group,
Los Angeles, CA

January 25, 2017

Beverly signing & selling books

LA Times Book Fest
USC Campus
Noon-2pm, April 12 at Booth 953
(the Greater LA Writers Society booth)

 

Authors Panel,
May 8, 2014 6pm

Platt Branch, Los Angeles Public Library
23600 Victory Blvd., Woodland Hills, CA
Beverly will read and discuss SOWN IN TEARS

 

“Big Orange Book Fair”

Chapman University,
1 University Drive, Orange, CA
Authors Pavilion
October 12, 13, 2013

Duarte Book Festival,

October 5
Sponsored by the Friends of Duarte Library, 10am-4pm
Westminster Gardens
1040 Santo Domingo Avenue,
Duarte, CA (just past Pasadena)

SOWN IN TEARS

Featured on RedRoom (www.redroom.com) the week of September 16, along with a guest blog.
Thursday, June 6, 2013

Reading/Signing – 2 Book Clubs

Palos Verdes, CA
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4pm
Vromans Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA

 

March 2, 2013

Grand Avenue Park Book Festival (downtown LA)
Book signing/reading

 

November 5, 2012

Book reading/signing
Westwood Library
1246 Glendon (near corner of Westwood & Wilshire Blvd) at 6pm.

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