a real big scene in this first episode, and she was absolutely fantastic. Just amazing. She always had that thing like she was from another time, anyway. It's been a long time since she's had something like this where she's had a real fun part to show off, and she just killed it. Of course, we have other good stuff coming up, too. A bigger Cuban storyline, and other things are happening in the continuing saga of Ike trying to keep his dream alive down there. It's also the story of Miami, though, with the cyclical thing of how different people may have the power, but the power always wants to corrupt this beautiful place and turn it into casinos. So far that hasn't happened yet, but when Cuba fell, all of that money crossed the ocean and tried to turn Miami into what Havana was for a while. AVC: Magic City obviously isn't the first time that you and Mitch have worked together, but how is it to work as an actress with your husband as the director? KL: It's very weird. We did it the first time on Three Of Hearts , where our director [Yurek Bogajevicz] had, like, a nervous breakdown and didn't show up for work, and Mitch... He was doing rewrites for us, just to help with that, because it was just a little independent movie. And the producers were like, "So, uh, Mitch is the kind of writer who hears it, sees it, and