I’m a frequent reader of your column and I have a question I haven’t seen asked yet. I’ll be moving out to LA in the next year or so. I’ve read a few times now…
Five Stages of Actor Grief
At a dinner party with several actors last week, I tossed out an idea I’d been toying with for my column: The Five Stages of Grief for Actors. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross developed the Five Stages of…
Other 14-Day Screenplayers
In my seemingly unending quest to procrastinate, I’ve decided to link to the blogs of other good folks out there who are taking the 14-Day Screenplay Challenge. (Notice their progress bars are actually MOVING.) Go…
Pretend You Teach Art
And if you teach Art, your goal in life is to put this image in front of as many kiddos as possible. No, it’s not me being all 6.6.06 or anything. It’s all about Snakes…
14-Day Screenplay (Hour 11)
Eleven hours into the 14-Day Screenplay Challenge and I have written ONE page. Babes McPhee stayed up later than I did and got 18 pages 14 pages done. I went to sleep after getting a…
Could you use that in a sentence please?
As I upload demo reels to the Cricket Feet Casting server for the director of Salvation, Texas to watch (sort of pre-prereads), I have the Scripps National Spelling Bee on ESPN. I am mesmerized. (Did…
New Casting Gig
Salvation, Texas. Yup. Looks like I’ve found a way to make the 14-Day Screenplay Challenge even *more* stressful. And no, I don’t know why my column hasn’t posted this week. I turned it in Sunday…
How to Get off the D-List?
Okay, so Bravo has been running ads all weekend about Kathy Griffin’s quest to get off the D-List. From the website: I want OFF the celebrity D-List. I want off now. So here’s the plan:…
10 Years Ago
10 years ago, from Ames: Ten years ago today, it was May 29, 1996. 1) How old were you? THEN: 25. NOW: 35 (no Hollywood math, there). 2) Where did you work? THEN: WUOG (grad…