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Mommy’s Gone Wild

By Diane Farr Tuesday March 19, 2013

I once believed a college dorm might be the loudest place I would ever try to sleep. Then I had children. And after having three, almost all at once, I didn’t sleep in my own home for about five years. But now my two youngest are age four and I am entering “the platinum years of parenting.” Aka the post-breastfeeding/pre-driving ages of 5 -10 years old, where as a mom I get to redefine myself – as a power sleeper. Perhaps even while on the occasional weekend away from home where the best sleep can happen, now that my babies are old enough to be trusted with a Grandparent (alongside a constant rotation of babysitters I pay double over a weekend to really watch them).

So how thrilled was I to get an invite to a 40^th birthday with 8 other couples, sans their kids and mine, in a pretty city none of us live in to stay in a rented McMansion. Ah, to dream of three long days of eating more than just what is left on the kitchen counter. And the chance to sleep past 6:45am.

Recession Tips From a Sometimes Unemployed Actor

By Diane Farr Wednesday May 9, 2012

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Recession Tips From a Sometimes Unemployed Actor

I began auditioning for acting jobs at the ripe old age of twelve. Thirty years later, including a fifteen-year run on television, I sometimes just get offers for work. But at others I am still required to run, Pell Mell around Los Angeles or New York, interviewing for film and TV roles.

I’ve put in much more than the 10,000 hours Malcolm Gladwell suggests would make you an expert in any field – including the field of job interviewing – so perhaps my fellow underemployed Americans would appreciate a professional actor’s (read: continual interviewee’s) tips about keeping your confidence intact when hustling for work, as auditions are tougher than you might think.

An audition is actually the delivery of a full performance – without the benefit of props, costume, professional hair styling or make up. Or pay. It also must be delivered while balancing ten pages of script and seeming like your not just pretending while you are performing alongside someone who is just pretending as they just a hired “reader.” All this is done in front of a firing squad of hiring types who openly judge me as I pour my heart out with someone else’s words – which could easily crush your confidence.

Yet, that is not the spirit crushing part of my job interview. That’s just the “art” part.

The Year of The Shoe

By Diane Farr Monday March 7, 2011

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I live in the city of Los Angeles, which is all a buzz at the moment with the shocking and dramatic breaking news. The news about pilot season, that is.

Not the news of Tunisia’s regime change or Egypt’s opening of the Suez Canal or the people of Libya who are desperately trying to stay alive, when their own leader declared a virtual war on them. Or the happenings in Bahrain, Yemen or Iran. Rather, so many of my incredibly smart friends and colleagues are calling, texting and tweeting the big news of who just got themselves a one time appearance on a TV show.

Because where I live, in the Big Orange, it is “pilot season.” Here, news is released by the hour on who has captured the lead, co-lead, and even a guest spot on every single “pilot” for next years development slate on network television – most of which will never even make it on the air. A pilot is a one-time trial run, used as an example of what a TV series about its subject matter would entail. It is clearly no indication of whether or not it would make a good series because most that do become a weekly show, immediately fail. I know that revolutions and celebrity sightings are the most important news to cover (and not always in that order) but I am ready to admit, that both news feeds are not really worth the anxiety they are causing me as I sit in my little office watching these dramas play out in real time from my cushy chair.

Trio Joins Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Council Of Dads’

By Diane Farr Friday February 18, 2011

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Trio Joins Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Council Of Dads’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 18, 2011 @ 11:39am PST

EXCLUSIVE: The Job and Rescue Me alumna Diane Farr is reuniting with the two series’ co-creator Peter Tolan. She is set as the female lead in Fox’s comedy pilot for Fox Council of Dads. Also set as leads in the project are Patrick Breen and SAG president Ken Howard. Inspired by Bruce Feiler’s non-fiction book, the pilot, which is being directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, tells the story of Michael who, just before he dies, enlists five of his guy friends from all aspects of his life to become a “council of dads” to his two young children. Farr will play Michael’s wife, recent widow Catherine, who is absolutely intent on complying with her husband’s dying wish but quickly finds out that the five guys on the Council can agree about absolutely nothing. Breen and Howard will play two of the Council’s members. Howard plays Michael’s dad Burt, ex-military guy who’s not to be screwed with. Breen plays Jerry, Michael’s ex-therapist who serves as the “Feelings Dad” on the council. Howard, repped by Greene & Assoc. and James/Levy, won an Emmy for Grey Gardens in 2009. He recurs on 30 Rock and is filming Clint Eastwood’s Hoover. Breen, repped by Gersh and A Management, had also been pursued for NBC’s Smash this season. UTA-repped Farr’s other series credits include Numbers and Californication.

Diane Farr talks the inspiration behind ‘AssCastles’

By Diane Farr Saturday August 14, 2010

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Diane Farr talks the inspiration behind ‘AssCastles’

Diane Farr has never had a problem hanging with the boys, whether that be on Loveline, The Job, Rescue Me, orCalifornication. So it’s somehow fitting that she’s broughtAssCastles to Funny or Die. For each installment, she takes a tour of a real “AssCastle” — that’s any home with three or more bedrooms that a man resides in without a wife or children and maintains for the sole purpose of “pulling down ass.” She walks through the house with the owner, who takes her through his rap (which room he starts in, which room he puts his best shine on, which room he closes). She then scripts the video based on the highlights of that experience and returns to the AssCastle to recreate them with an actor, who assumes the role of the bachelor. The first installment, embedded below, begins with the claim that Farr and her team added only one thing to the mix.

Same Sex Marriage is on its Way, Like it or Not

By Diane Farr Monday July 26, 2010

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Same Sex Marriage is on its Way, Like it or Not

Just as Portugal’s president ratified a law allowing gay marriage, making his country the sixth in Europe to do so, Argentina became the first Latin-American country to make same-sex unions legally binding this week. Canada, Iceland and South Africa also shine on this list, but in only five U.S. states and Washington, D.C., are we willing to let love conquer all.