Austin with beard and glasses!

Love the beard, the glasses not so much ;)
The glasses and Sophia's dress are not very flattering for either one of them.
But the new suit and the silk tie he should keep!

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Austin attended the 17th Annual Race to Erase MS event at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza LA with Sophia (May 7, 2010)


 

 
A bearded Austin reappeared in public looking great, just in time when OTH returned to the screen for the last four episodes of the Season.

I wonder why Austin is wearing a 'Marcelleken' underneath his shirt?
Was it cold in LA?
Or could this be another one of his fashion statements ;)





 
Austin out for lunch in West Hollywood with Sophia (April 26, 2010)

( see the pics here )

Austin performed in the play “The Friend of Carlos Monzon” written by Edwin Shrake and directed by Jeff Nichols at the Long Center in Austin, Texas on Wednesday March 31, 2010. 

The actors rehearsed for just two days and performed one single evening for an invite-only audience.





Mar 31 | Script Reading of “The Friend of Carlos Monzon” by Bud Shrake @ 7pm, The Rollins Theatre at the Long Center for the Arts, invitation only 

Source: Austin Film Festival


Reviews:

Theater review: “The Friend of Carlos Monzon”

By Patrick Beach | Thursday, April 1, 2010

When Edwin “Bud” Shrake died last May he died writing — he was about 100 pages into a new novel and was working on staging a play with the Austin Film Festival’s Barbara Morgan.

That play, which had a sort of staged reading before an invite-only crowd at the Long Center’s Debra & Kevin Rollins Studio Theater Wednesday night, is about how writing nearly got Shrake killed. “The Friend of Carlos Monzon,” which featured impressive original Spanish guitar music by Ray Benson, film and still images, is based on a writing assignment gone awry: In the ’70s, while writing for Sports Illustrated, Shrake was assigned to cover the Carlos Monzon-Bennie Briscoe middleweight title fight. At the time, communists and terrorists were blowing things up, death squads found good sport in disappearing people by tossing them out of airborne planes and exiled president Juan Peron was on his way back from Spain to make it all better.

One night, while sitting in a bar, Shrake had the misfortune of being swept up in a post-bombing raid, thrown into a secret prison and held incommunicado. No one, not even his editors in New York, knew what had become of him. Prisoners were interrogated and tortured. The unluckiest went skydiving without a chute.

That’s the set-up. Director Jeff Nichols — whose “Shotgun Stories” Roger Ebert named one of the best films of 2008 — had most of the cast sitting in chairs on the stage, with a screen overhead. The simple set and minimal special effects left the cast — some of whom had mere days to prepare — nowhere to hide, but they did great, particularly Ray McKinnon as Bivens, the fictionalized Shrake, who has to convey outrage, terror and bitter humor. The cast also includes hometown boy Austin Nichols, who starred in “John from Cincinnati,” which ran for just one season on HBO. Another native, Gabriel Luna, quite capably plays Monzon. Morgan, who emphasized the show is a work in progress, said that most of the actors flew in Sunday and started rehearsing Monday. Under those circumstances it’s a heroic feat.

There were a couple of technical glitches, maybe a flubbed line or two, but pretty much everybody in the audience was in a forgiving mood, there to celebrate Shrake’s life and accomplishments. A tough crowd it was not, even before Shrake’s son, Ben, offered a warm welcome. If last night proved anything, it was that Shrake was writing as well as he ever was when he passed away, which is the way any writer would want it.

Austin 360


Review by Kathy Blackwell:

Really enjoyed reading of Bud Shrake's last play last night. Loads of talent, from Austin Nichols to Jeff Nichols. Great to see old friends.

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Review by Kelly Williams:

last night's reading of Budd Shrake's final play starring Ray McKinnon & directed by Jeff Nichols was 2010 highlight.

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Official Theater site: The Long Center

About Edwin "Bud" Shrake: Wikipedia




 

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