Letter to Jack Nicholson
	Bresler Kelly and Associates 15760 Ventura Blvd. Suite 1730 Encino, CA 91436-3028 April 20, 1999 Dear Mr. Jack Nicholson, I thought you might enjoy knowing that you played a Crucial Role in the End-of-Term Recital for my acting program a few days ago. I run an unconventional program for training professional actors (based on painting instead of psychology—it works!). Every four months, we put our work together to show people what we’ve accomplished. For these performances, I have the exasperating task of tying everything together--of creating a narrative thread or theme, so that our audience feels they’ve seen a coherent "program," rather than a series of unrelated pieces. Unobtrusive-yet-memorable. Giving-closure-yet-looking-ahead—that sort of thing. This is where you come in. After long looking (read: stewing [read: flailing]) I pounced gratefully on the idea of using a couple of things you’ve said to bring everything together into that "whole." (Another quote from you is on the program’s Statement of Purpose.) I am sending the text that resulted—the title of which is "Albania, Frogs and Nicholson." See bold, italized text on pages 4, 6 and the back of the program. Perhaps you will not recognize yourself from what I have written. But it may give you pleasure to know that someone is paying close attention. I hope you write your book so we don’t have to keep mining the chance remark. In the meantime, your bits-and-pieces are making us whole. Sincerely, Lissa Tyler Renaud
	© 2000 Lissa Tyler Renaud. All rights reserved.