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The Year in Review

in Quizzes and Memes on December 25, 2007 August 14, 2025

(See also 2006, 2005, and 2004.) Take the first line (or so) from the first post of each month of 2007. That’s your Year In Review. January 2007: It’s Quiet… Too Quiet And I know…

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Cynthia Bain on Kids in Showbiz

in The Actors Voice on December 24, 2007 August 14, 2025

Hi Bonnie. I’m a huge fan of your column! Your work is fantastic! You asked for suggestions for your series on young actors, and since young actors are my specialty I thought I’d pipe in….

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2007 in Questions

in Quizzes and Memes on December 24, 2007 August 14, 2025

(See also 2006 in Questions, 2005 in Questions, and 2004 in Questions.) 1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before? Produce actor showcases for industry buyers. 2. Did you keep your…

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Kids in Showbiz II

in The Actors Voice on December 24, 2007 August 14, 2025

Last week, in the first Kids in Showbiz column, we looked at The Basics, Classes, Type, Headshots, Resumés, Postcards, Demo Reels, and Websites for kid actors. Phew! That was a long column, eh? Have you…

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Actors Deserve More Respect

in The Actors Voice on December 17, 2007 August 14, 2025

Why are actors treated with so little respect? Why can’t email addresses be collected at sign-in? When a project is cast, a group email can be sent out saying: “We have cast project X. If…

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Kids in Showbiz

in The Actors Voice on December 17, 2007 August 14, 2025

Welcome to our year-end three-part series on issues specific to young actors! Thank you, readers, for having written in with so many great topic ideas. Over the next three weeks, I hope to get to…

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When to Move to Los Angeles

in The Actors Voice on December 10, 2007 August 14, 2025

As a SAG actor planning to move to LA in January of 2008 from Chicago, do you think it would be wise to wait until most or all of the strike situation has reached a…

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Leaving the Blacklist

in The Actors Voice on December 10, 2007 August 14, 2025

A couple of years ago, I wrote a column called How To Get Blacklisted. Frankly, there are many more ways to get blacklisted than the three I listed back then. But who wants to focus…

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A Jock Thanks the Drama Nerds

in The Actors Voice on December 3, 2007 August 14, 2025

I loved your column “Suzanne and the Football Players.” I was one of the “jocks,” the star on the football team. As I was reading, Suzanne would have been right about me, I went to…

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in The Actors Voice on December 3, 2007 August 14, 2025

For our first anniversary, my husband and I went to an amazing spa/resort place with his precious son (my precious stepson). (Don’t worry. It was located near a really cool amusement park, and the boys…

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