Oh my, my, my, my, my. Busy gal. But I did want to come by and say HOWDY!

Taxes got pushed back ’til I return from San Diego next week (subbing Billy Cowart’s classes there) and I’m seriously grateful for that. Even after a couple dozen non-stop hours of working on our financials, I still had/have work to do. Should finish it all up today. Phew.
Made offers to two name actors for HILMMAKS today. That is seriously so much fun! Yippee! The other feature film I’m casting is on hold while producers get some legal stuff together (they weren’t as ready to begin casting as they’d thought at our meeting earlier this week), which is good b/c it gives me a bit of breathing room to (hopefully) get some deals made on HILMMAKS before issuing the next breakdown.
Spoke to Billy DaMota’s class at the Strasberg Institute last night. That’s always such fun! Really talented kids over there. And catching up with Billy is a blast. He has a new book that we may publish through Cricket Feet. Stay tuned on that.
Keith is at an audition, then off to CSI Miami casting for his intern gig. I’m hoping to get our financial statements to a good “finishing point” before he gets home, so that I can then get my column written (early) and do some Roxbury work before leaving town. I’m very much looking forward to being entirely offline for a few days. There’s something very comforting about that sort of break from the daily noise.
Let’s see… other things to catch y’all up on…
Books are selling remarkably well. I’m so very pleased with how happy folks are with Self-Management for Actors. In fact, it’s in stores now, so the numbers should continue to increase this month. Yippee! More important than sales, to me, is that people like the revisions. That’s a big ol’ happy. Otherwise, as long as we don’t lose money on the printings, I’m just fine and dandy.
When I went to update the Cricket Feet site with some more screenings for Queen of Cactus Cove, I did a little poking around to see what’s up with some of the other films I’ve cast. Holy crap, y’all! Hombre Kabuki also got into a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards, which means it is entirely possible (though certainly not probable, but a girl can dream, right?) that TWO FILMS I cast will be up for Best Live Action Short Film on Oscar night, 2007. HOLY CRAP, RIGHT?
Also, I learned that Chandler Hall will have its world premiere next weekend at The Other Venice Film Festival. I don’t know anything about the fest, but I’m so freakin’ excited to get to see how the film turned out. The film’s website has a trailer and stills. Looks great! And honestly, I’ve been so busy that I haven’t even had a chance to add a link to that site from the Cricket Feet site–nor have I edited together MY casting demo reel, which includes clips from all of these films that are (all at once it seems) starting to become available.
Hmm. Maybe I’ll do some of that here, and y’all can go see the trailers on the sites where they currently live, and I’ll use this post as a reminder to myself to come back and do all of this linking from the Cricket Feet site when I have a chance.
Ha!
I haven’t even gone blog-reading all week for the most part. Eesh! I am one busy Bon! Okay, I’m going to go ahead and post this entry even though it’s really boring and then I’ll try to come back before I head south in order to link up some trailers. Man, I need an assistant.
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BACK: Okay, here are some links to trailers, if you’d like to see some of what I do for a living (outside of writing, which you can see every week).
Queen of Cactus Cove trailer.
Chandler Hall trailer is available here.
Hombre Kabuki trailer. (Hombre Kabuki came out of casting for Each To Each which is in post right now.)
The Moor trailer is up at the Cricket Feet site.