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Monitoring the Culture: Upfronts
If you want to keep tabs on what’s getting picked up this week for the fall schedule, here’s your Google news list (by date) on the big TV-palooza. Woo hoo!
New Casting Gig
Woo hoo! Remember that intense casting phone meeting I had last week? Booked the gig. Yowza! Watch for a breakdown mid-week. Woo hoo!
Announcing: SMFA Seminars
Self-Management for Actors Course by casting director and author Bonnie Gillespie Bonnie Gillespie’s new small-group seminar on Self-Management for Actors provides an inside look into the business of acting and helps you identify your primary…
Cross-post: Upfronts
Keep up with the upfronts. C’mon… NO WHAMMIES!
Page Six: Extras Fired
Oh, wow! This is a doozie. From the article: The union extras-—who were playing cops, reporters and rioters-—refused to work unless they were paid more. The job action didn’t end until a production manager gave…
Y’know…
When you’re bored to hell and you’ve emptied your TiVo, you begin to learn that there’s some Really. Odd. Stuff. on the Internet.
Is My Union Status a Turn-Off?
I do not have an agent. I am nonunion. I believe getting an agent and joining the union will happen as I continue to work hard as an actor. I get a good amount of…
Project Greenlight
This weekend, I did one of my favorite things: I sat down for a marathon of an entire season of a TV show. See, I like to TiVo up a good ten hours of a…
On Bullshit
So 60 Minutes does a piece on the best-seller On Bullshit. It got me thinking about the term “bullshit.” Why did the bull’s poop become the most popular in our language? Why not the dog’s?…