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Win an Oscar? Throw Yourself a Parade!

in The Actors Voice on March 19, 2012 August 14, 2025

Here’s a great email from longtime reader, Robert Keniston. Win an Oscar? Throw yourself a parade! I freakin’ love this email and the sentiment behind it. Thank you, Robert! 🙂 Bonnie, I’m writing today to…

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in The Actors Voice on March 19, 2012 August 14, 2025

When it comes down to it, you’re all freakin’ talented, beautiful people. You know that, right? Obviously, you take your career seriously, you invest in training, you keep your union dues paid (or you’re working…

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SMFA for New Zealand?

in The Actors Voice on March 12, 2012 August 14, 2025

Hi Bonnie, I have just discovered your column and am working my way through the archives right from the start. I live in New Zealand, and while the market is very different here (in comparison…

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in The Actors Voice on March 12, 2012 August 14, 2025

How much of your acting life — not just your time on set, not just your time in the audition room, not just your life as a performer — is based in reactions? This topic…

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Correction: NOT Adam Kern! Oops!

in The Actors Voice on March 5, 2012 August 14, 2025

So, last week, I wrote about being green and the advantages to that space in time. I credited the wonderful actor Adam Kern with some words of wisdom, in that column. Oops! It was actually…

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in The Actors Voice on March 5, 2012 August 14, 2025

So, I run this Yahoo Group called Hollywood Happy Hour. Its population of nearly 2700 industry pros has become a huge source of inspiration, support, and resource-checking for creatives all over the world. We’ve been…

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Dealing with Online Bullies

in The Actors Voice on February 27, 2012 August 14, 2025

Dear Bonnie, Really not sure who to ask for advice like this, I hope you don’t mind. Today had a very unpleasant exchange with someone who does crew and equipment for feature films. I mistakenly…

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in The Actors Voice on February 27, 2012 August 14, 2025

It’s funny. I’ll never forget the experience, but I cannot remember the name. It was 1992 and I had read one of many helpful “getting started in the biz” books and saw that I was…

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in The Actors Voice on February 20, 2012 August 14, 2025

Got a bunch of emails on last week’s Merger Advice. Almost all of the email came from SAG-eligible actors. Here’s two of those emails with the same basic question, and then my response. Hi Bonnie,…

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in The Actors Voice on February 20, 2012 August 14, 2025

Those of us who live in Los Angeles sometimes may forget we live in a “factory town.” We have one major business: Entertainment. Sure, we have a lot of other big businesses too — this…

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