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microphone. It got to be a
ritual?'
The actress says her
parents, Lillian and Jerry
Reiss, have always been very
supportive of her career deci-
sions, but that it was her
grandmother who was her
greatest inspiration.
"She had a very strong im-
pact on me as a child," Reiss
remembers. "She used to do
vaudeville. She played the
piano by ear, and we would
harmonize together. We did
all the old songs. She talked
about elocution. We would sit
and watch soap opetas, and I
would get a lesson in how the
actress was shading her voice
or how the villain was show-
ing his emotions."
Reiss, her older sister, and
their parents moved to West
Bloomfield in time for the
young Sarah Bernhardt to
take her talents on stage at
West Bloomfield High School.
"I always did the things peo-
ple said you're not supposed
to do. I played the cowardly
lion when they told me a girl
couldn't play that role."
Her first "real taste" of a
serious commitment to drama
came during her summers at
the Interlochen Center for the
Arts. "That was when I
realized that in some way or
form the entertainment in-
dustry would definitely be a
part of my life."
She started college at
Michigan State University,
but she knew that she wanted
to eventually head towards
New York. A summer ex-
perience working on a
political campaign on the

East Coast brought Reiss in-
to Boston, where she saw a lot
of street theater. "I im-
mediately decided I wanted to
transfer to Boston University.
It was just one week before
school started when I was ac-
cepted, and bags in hand, sur-
prise to my folks, I took off."
Reiss was graduated from
B.U. with a major in broad-
casting and film and a minor
in theater and directing. She
also worked at Emerson Col-
lege and the M.I.T. Theatre
Guild and acquired a lot of ex-
perience behind the camera
as well as in the spotlight.
Today Reiss concedes that
the entertainment world is a
tough way to make a living.
"You try to conquer the
frustration on a daily basis.
"Then, too, there are some
months I'm rich — in my eyes
— and others when I'm
waiting for money to pour
down from the heavens. But
you have to be persistent,
have confidence, and you have
to love what you're doing,
despite rejections. If you don't
have a passion for this in-
dustry, it can really be a
jilting experience.
You watch to see who's
casting and what's going on
in your field. As a free-lancer,
I am my own boss, but there
are no guarantees." It would
be "pretty difficult" for so-
meone like Reiss to operate
without agents, she believes.
"They get to know your
strengths and serve as
liaisons."
After eight years in Boston
and a period in New York, her

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