Results tagged “theresaduncan”

Suicide is a place we have all imagined, but it’s not a room any of us have really been in, other than a foot, a glance, a daydream. It’s no stranger to Los Angeles, a city with perhaps more than its fair share of broken dreams. But when not one, but two people die, when they have all that the city appears to offer – fame, success, beauty and each other, that’s when people...

Sometimes the emails that we get from our readers tell the stories way better than we ever could. We had just read the sad news over at LA Observed that filmmaker, writer, and blogger Theresa Duncan had committed suicide, when we got this email: Tony, I'm a long time fan of your blog and LAist. I'm also a huge fan of Theresa Duncan's blog, Wit of the Staircase. LAist did an interview with her awhile...

Theresa Duncan is a writer and filmmaker who lives in Venice Beach. She is also adept at communicating her vision in any media. A veteran game designer before the age of 30, Theresa has authored several popular multimedia games for girls, including the cult classic video game "Chop Suey." In 1998, she made her first film, called The History of Glamor, an animated musical satire tweaking the pretentions of the worlds of fashion, art, celebrity and New York art cliques in the '90s. Her latest film, produced by indie vets Anne Carey and Andrew Bregman and scheduled for production in New York this summer, focuses on two Upper East Side schoolgirls who kidnap a rock star who becomes more famous after he disappears. Even while in the midst of pre-production, Theresa still has time to maintain the kick-ass blog " Wit of the Staircase," where she shares her passions for perfume, art, love, magic, fashion, literature, culture, and music with readers. When one visits "Wit of the Staircase," one never knows what one will find on Theresa's mind that day, but readers always return, confident that each new entry will be as interesting as the last one.

We didn't pay much attention when LA Observed discussed the rise of The Los Angeles Lunar Society and their apparent spokeswoman, Theresa Duncan, but over the weekend, under the Harvest Moon, they became LAist's favorite local community organization. The Society is advocating the secession of Venice from LA and will revolt to do it if necessary. Thankfully, though, all members of the society involved in film work of any kind won't have to join active revolutionary status, should it come to that, so that Hollywood can continue its quest for world cultural domination unfettered.