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in Animals on March 30, 2006 August 13, 2025

Step one, dear Thwok, is admitting that you have a problem. Click to enlarge. Granted, you are a cat, and I guess it’s okay if you want to go around all Kate Moss with junk…

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Wanna Feel Like a Failure?

in Geeky Stuff on March 30, 2006 August 13, 2025

Just kidding. I know you don’t. But if you want to see what other folks have accomplished by the time they reached your age, check out this site that Stumble Upon sent me to this…

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Great Review of SMFA2!

in Creative Writing on March 29, 2006 August 13, 2025

Woo hoo! Thanks, Bob Fraser, for the kick-ass review of Self-Management for Actors in this month’s “Showbiz How-To.” In this review (free download of the whole newsletter in PDF at this link), I am grouped…

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Burning Question…

in Geeky Stuff on March 29, 2006 August 13, 2025

Which “red effing shirt” will KiKi wear in 110.5 hours when we meet IRL for the first time? And, will our first utterance be “wheeeeeeeee” or “yaaaaaaaaaay” or “eeeeeeeeeeekk” or “yippeeeeeeeee” or “aaaaaaackkkkk”? Place yer…

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in Archive The Latest on March 28, 2006 December 9, 2016

“Self-Management for Actors” Course by casting director and author Bonnie Gillespie Bonnie Gillespie’s Self-Management for Actors seminar provides an inside look into the business of acting and helps you identify your primary type, create your…

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Fuck You, High Road

in Funnies on March 27, 2006 August 13, 2025

I don’t always like you. But I’m going to take you. My husband, on the other hand, will be meeting me on the other side of this mountain after having kicked someone’s ass all the…

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Dirt

in Ramblings on March 27, 2006 August 13, 2025

Note: I put the “framework” of a “future blog post” into the “unpublished” mode at 8:15pm on Sunday. It is now 2:48am Monday and I finally have time to finish this blog post (read: make…

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More Questions about Agents and Managers

in The Actors Voice on March 27, 2006 August 13, 2025

Well, the hits just keep on comin’! You have plenty of agent and manager related questions. Here are a few more, with some more answers! My question is specific to kids’ management contracts. I’ve heard…

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The Difference Between Agents and Managers

in The Actors Voice on March 27, 2006 August 13, 2025

What’s the difference between an agent and a manager? Well, according to “Eric” on HBO’s hit series Entourage, that’s simple: “The manager is the one who cares.” Of course, that’s the joke answer. The serious…

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Randy Quaid, are you kidding me?

in Showbiz on March 24, 2006 August 13, 2025

I mean, just because your agents didn’t work a good back-end deal (no pun intended) for your work in Brokeback Mountain, you NOW want to sue for $10M in damages? Quaid said in the lawsuit…

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