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"I was never young and gorgeous - I
was bald when I was 18."
ACT 1
If you take the Long Island Railroad east out of mid-town Manhattan
25 miles you will find yourself in Rockville Center Long Island.
Known for its 11 churches, 10 banks and 2 synagogues this is
a community that is riddled with guilt. This goes back 348 years
to when the local dignitaries, feeling they'd done such a great
deal with the local Native American realtor Sachem Tackapousha
14 years earlier, decided to send him some extra cattle, wampum,
hatchets, powder & lead to keep him sweet. These deep-seated
feelings of guilt were much on the mind of one Alan Blumenfeld
when he rode west out of town one day headed for New York in
search of fame and fortune.
ACT 2
First stop was the Sarah Lawrence University which he'd enrolled
in for two good reasons. 1) They had a drama school and 2) his
Freshman Year was only the third year that men were allowed at
the college. "I was a Jewish boy from Long Island and I wanted
to meet girls," he explains. Whether Alan met any girls is unknown
though he certainly graduated and kept heading west landing up
in San Francisco.
Having narrowly failed an opportunity to secure a gig as The
Grateful Dead's stash coordinator Alan was forced to go to Plan
B and study at the American Conservatory Theater where, "I learnt
to become an actor and walked away with an MFA in theater."
Alan instantly hit the silver screen with roles in WAR GAMES,
TIN MEN, INNERSPACE and regularly appeared on TV in MOONLIGHTING,
FAMILY TIES, NYPD BLUE, ER, CHICAGO HOPE etc. Most recently he's
secured roles in GILMORE GIRLS, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, K9, THE
RING, DICKIE ROBERTS and memorably nailed the role of the unstoppable
Bob Buss in MTV's 2gether. A distinguished theater actor Alan
has appeared in over 20 productions at LA's renowned Theatricum
Botanicum (his Falstaff was highly commended by LA drama critics)
and has recently appeared as Bottom in A Noise Within's Midsummer
Night's Dream.
ACT 3
"I have two unfulfilled ambitions," Alan explains, "I want to
go back to New York and do theater and I want to be a regular
on a TV series and make s**t-loads of money." Whether Alan is
thinking about sending Sachem Tackapousha's descendants more
wampum should he make his "s**t-loads of money," remains unclear.
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