Welcome to MimiKennedy.info, web home for actress, author and activist Mimi Kennedy. Still entertaining audiences worldwide as Dharma's hippie mom "Abby" in the syndicated sitcom "Dharma&Greg" (first season now on DVD) Mimi is a mentor, teacher and writer, working for democracy, justice and peace, using nonviolent strategies for conflict resolution. Peruse.
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Mimi as Karen Clarke in 'IN THE LOOP' - BBC FeatureFilm premieres at Sundance Jan. 22, 2009. Link for more information - click here. If Armando Iannucci’s political farce about the road to war through the corridors of power weren’t so funny, it would be utterly terrifying.When a British cabinet minister, Simon Foster, comments publicly that he thinks war is “unforeseeable,” the result is an immediate bollocking from Malcolm Tucker, the prime minister’s testy bulldog pushing for war. Unable to clarify his position, Simon is sent to Washington, where, trying desperately to be important, he meets Karen Clark, a U.S. State Department official, and General Miller, who see him as a transatlantic partner in building a consensus against war. They search for a secret war committee, led by Karen’s hawkish colleague, Linton Barwick. And as farce demands, all parties eventually converge for a climactic shuffle between rooms, in this case at the United Nations. Wickedly sardonic and filled with secrets, lies, leaks, plugs, and faulty intelligence and walls, In the Loop leads us behind closed doors to reveal bungling bureaucrats entangled in petty rivalries, obsequious aides jockeying for favor, and the Keystone Cops of government, including a minister who hopes there’s no war because it’s bad enough coping with the Olympics, and an unscrupulous bureaucrat who doctors intelligence because he believes that “in the land of truth, the man with one fact is king.”But don’t worry. None of this actually happened! It’s just British comedy.
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In October 2004 Mimi launched Progressive Democrats of America's first Hollywood fundraiser with a star-studded, sold-out, one-night-only performance of Tony Kushner's "Only We Who Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy" that also included Sally Field, John Glover and Charlayne Woodard. Mr. Kushner, in an interview, said he composed the piece in fury one sleepless night during the build-up to war in Iraq, hoping it would have a short shelf-life, expiration date Nov. 2, 2004. Alas. But his brilliant work helped fertilize the organizing of nearly a hundred thousand PDA activists across the nation. Contact Information: |
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