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in The Actors Voice on November 15, 2010 August 14, 2025

This week’s Your Turn is simply a “yes, and…” to this week’s column. Have you noticed that the Actors Access page at Facebook sometimes features “Pay It Forward Friday”? I like this a lot. The…

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in The Actors Voice on November 15, 2010 August 14, 2025

As often happens, I was inspired by a conversation going on at Hollywood Happy Hour for this week’s column. While the topic was about respect and by-the-books treatment at casting sessions (specifically about readers skipping…

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Facebook: Unplugging Update

in Unplugging on November 13, 2010 August 14, 2025

On November 13, 2010, I was granted the slow-roll-out option to download my entire Facebook profile. If you have this feature and are looking to unplug (or, heck, even if you’re not, and you —…

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What Is My Manager Doing for Me?

in The Actors Voice on November 8, 2010 August 14, 2025

What does a manager do anyway? I’ve been out in LA just under two months and got a commercial agent. Yeah! Got a manager. Yeah? Okay, so I didn’t sign any paperwork with him and…

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in The Actors Voice on November 8, 2010 August 14, 2025

I’m back from a delightful mini-break in Desert Hot Springs — a wonderful, private getaway we retreat to as often as humanly possible (which is unfortunately not at all frequently enough) — where I had…

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in Unplugging on November 7, 2010 August 14, 2025

Before I get into how I unplugged from Facebook in late 2010, let me detail how I became Hyper-Connected, which will provide context for why unplugging has become so important to me now. I was…

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in The Actors Voice on November 1, 2010 August 14, 2025

Dear Bonnie, Your column continues to inspire me and I find myself sending more and more people to your resources as they are invaluable for all actors! You advise beginning actors who lack screen credits…

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in The Actors Voice on November 1, 2010 August 14, 2025

We’re back for another round of bios. Remember my summary from last week: Lay off the clichés, check your grammar, go easy on capitalization, have a SMART friend proofread, cut it for length if it’s…

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Thinkin’ Lincoln

in JFDI Entrepreneurial Mastermind on October 28, 2010 August 14, 2025

Tim Dunigan shared the simplest savings plan in the world with the audience of Your Actor MBA on July 17, 2010 (tape day for this particular episode). On that day, I started Thinkin’ Lincoln and…

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in The Actors Voice on October 25, 2010 August 14, 2025

So, I have a marketing question about the LA scene that only someone like you could answer. I love that you have a great balance of being unique without being over the top, so, here…

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