I found myself laughing out loud the other day while reading Michael Umansky's description of the nine ingredients to Alex's "Secret Sauce." Then while listening to an NPR interview today with actor Chiwetel Ejiofor for the new David Mamet film, Red Belt, Terri Gross introduces him as playing a character in a plot "where things are not what they appear to be, because after all, this is a film written and directed by David Mamet." Suddenly Umansky's tongue-in-cheek "secret sauce" came to mind. Lo & behold, substitute the name Mamet with "Alejandro Adams" and they are one in the same!! :-)

Galen Howard will never know that Eli, Dave and I stared at his frozen image on a TV screen for almost 2 hours last Saturday. That was Galen, right Alex?? We were running a scene to patch a plot hole. Call us "The Cleaners" (remember La Femme Nikita? French version only please.) Like the canary in the coal mine, I play the early warning system who knows the potential extent of the damage. How very glad I was to have Marya's plentiful research at my fingertips, Alex's calm and methodical approach, and Eli and Dave's improv ease. A great shooting day. But ya know........canaries never escaped the coal mines.