Click here: Passions' Legacy of Lunacy Is Remembered
Click to read the Adventures of Johnny Tao, A Kung Fu Fable, press release.
I was also able to attend the Cast & Crew screening for a feature I did, SMOKIN' ACES currently in wide release.
This is an R rated action packed, adrenalin rush of a movie. It's geared towards the young male audience who will flock to it in droves. I got a marvelous mention in a NYC paper. As it was from Jay Carr, acclaimed film critic for the Boston Globe I was especially thrilled. To read it, click here.
Personally Speaking Interview ~ The radio interview I did a couple of weeks ago has aired.
Click here to listen(mp3 format 2.2 mb). Or you can go directly to the site yourself by clicking http://www.usccb.org/ccc/psradio.shtml Go to bottom of page and click on past episodes, then click on episodes 36-40. My episode is #39. Click on my name. Enjoy! It isn't often that an actor gets interviewed about their faith. Monsignor Jim Lisante asked provocative questions. I loved the process.
Click here to read my interview with April L. Peterson, graduate student, Dept. of Communication, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. - May 2005
"Mrs. Candour (Marianne Muellerleile) furnishes the most fully developed personification of gossip in the story, a grinning gorgon who oozes duplicity and declares, "I cannot bear to hear people attacked behind their backs," pretends to defend them and delights in destroying their reputations. Muellerleile comes on like a hurricane, and her lip-smacking ecstasy while spreading lies is hilarious and horrifying.
She has an especially triumphant scene with Benjamin Backbite (a riotously prissy, petulant Parkinson, who also scores as the treacherous Snake), and flamboyant, red-wigged Crabtree (Edward Hibbert), in which all three play a game of can-you-top-this and invent disastrous details of a scandal that bears no relationship to the actual event."
VARIETY DECEMBER 9, 2004 by Joel Hirschhorn
"The impressive cast, which is huge, delivers fine performances across the board, but mention must be made of Marianne Muellerleile in the role of Mrs. Candour, a woman whose protestations of dismay as gossipmongers are belied by the utter glee she displays dismembering reputations in the name of honesty. Muellerleile turns hypocrisy into an art."
BACKSTAGE WEST, DECEMBER 30, 2004 by Wenzel Jones
"People will talk," observes Mrs. Candor in The School for Scandal, a comment that states both the obvious and sublime. In fact, it is Scandal’s despicably honest, dully upright citizens who have some of the best lines. When Mrs. Candor (Marianne Muellerliele) rushes to "defend" a cousin from the lashings of Backbite and Crabtree with a gush of her
customary — and deadly — faint praise, Sir Peter cuts her off: "When I tell you, Mrs. Candor, that the lady they are abusing is a particular friend of mine, I hope you’ll not take her part." ... Giving them a run for their money is Muellerliele as the irrepressibly vile Mrs. Candor, whose every compliment coats a poison pill.
L.A WEEKLY, DECEMBER 17 - 23, 2004,by Steven Mikulan
"While gossip, scandal and hypocrisy are hardy perennials, few writers have so skillfully skewered human folly as Sheridan. Mrs. Candour (Marianne Muellerleile) and Snake, who have nothing better to do than prance around living up to their names; the motto for this motley crew could well be: With malice for all, charity toward none. When Mrs. Candour laughs, she sounds like a demented jackal, and the others have lovable traits of their own."
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, Theater Review: The School for Scandal
THURSDAY DECEMBER 9, 2004 By Jay Reiner
"And then there are the kings and queens of gossip and innuendo...Mrs. Candor (Marianne Muellerleile), the Luella Parsons of her day."
DAILY BREEZE, DECEMBER 10, 2004 By Jim Farber
"A good 15 minutes before we first encounter Sir Peter Teazle, the gentleman around whose unwise May/December marriage "Scandal" revolves, in come the scandalites like a bunch of over-eager show dogs...and Mrs.
Candour (Marianne Muellerleile), who thinks that spreading gossip rather than inventing it makes her
above reproach. "
LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS, DECEMBER 9, 2004 By Evan Henerson
"His (Sheridan's) "School for Scandal" gossips - his most enduring characters - are rendered here with the mock frowns,
significant glances and extravagant protestations of a supremely silly offshoot of the human race...For sheer olubility, though, she must compete with the nattering Mrs. Candour, who is given Wagnerian dimension by the booming Marianne
Muellerleile.
LOS ANGELES TIMES DECEMBER 10, 2004 By Daryl H. Miller
I'm in the November 29 issue of TV GUIDE, there is an article on me page 63 titled CRUEL YULE. Click here to view article.
The second season of LIFE WITH BONNIE premieres on ABC's new TGIF Friday's on September 26. Check local listings for your area timeslot.
Catch Marianne in the final tableau of ABC Stars during the ABC 50th Anniversary Celebration airing Monday, May 19, 2003.
Michael Logan's column in the Dec 14 issue of TV GUIDE says "My favorite new sitcom, the fresh, effervescent LIFE WITH BONNIE, packs a double punch... And the hilarious Marianne Muellerleile is all pith and vinegar as their do-nothing maid. (But, man, do we miss her as that butch nutcase Norma on PASSIONS!)
Click here to read interview.
In Marilyn Beck's CELEBRITIES column in The Los Angeles Daily News, November 14, 2002, it says:
TO BUSY TO SLOW DOWN: Marianne Muellerleile - Gloria the Housekeeper on "Life with Bonnie" has spent a tremendous amount of her energy doing for others. She remains president of an after-school program in South Central LA and continues to be a lay minister for the Catholic Church. However, she says, "I've divested myself of much of my volunteer activities. I'm getting older, and I have to take the time to take care of myself because my husband needs me." Her husband, retired USAF Lt. Col. Joesph T. Norris, is afflicted, she says, with unrelenting pain throughout his body from being over-radiated for cancer many years ago. "He has to stay in bed about 23 hours a day, and, barring a miracle, he won't get better." Her husband is, she says, her hero.
Check me out in the November 12, 2002 issue of SOAP OPERA DIGEST page 87.
I am deeply saddened by the loss of Josh Ryan Evans, the amazing actor who embued "Timmy" with so much heart and merriment.
A great part of the pleasure of working on PASSIONS was due to working with Josh. It must be said that he made a lasting impact during his brief life by spreading joy and laughter to millions. Thank you, Josh. With love, Marianne
I recently did an Interview with Joanne Weintraub who wrote the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal on July 20, 2002. Click here to read the article names "TV's twins may keep viewers guessing".
The other article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 30, 2002 published in the Everyday Magazine... titled St. Louisian hopes "Presidio Med" wins great reception. I'm in the segment under Visitation Academy.
Read Marianne's interview on Soap City: Meet Marianne Muellerleile: Queen of the Bates Motel
My clipping from the Handbook they gave to the fans who attended the Fan Breakfast in July.
The News - Revolving Door, SOW April 2, 2002 Click here to view.
Missing In Action, SOW March 5, 2002 Click here to view.
Focus on Marianne, SOD February 12, 2002 Click here to view.
Party Scenes, SOU February 12, 2002 Click here to view.
"We'd gladly give up a decade of dazzling special effects if PASSIONS would keep bringing back Marianne Muellerleile as the mannish, skull-toting, wacko Norma."
Michael Logan, Dec 1-7, TV GUIDE
Check out my interview with Akim at The Arnold Fan 2001
I'm featured in the Nov 20th issue of SOAP OPERA DIGEST as one of "10 Shameless Scene Stealers." Click here to view article.
Marianne in fat suit with Bronson Pinchot, 1993
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