May 2010 – Kalmenson & Kalmenson

“To adlib or not to adlib; ah that is the question!”

ByHarvey Kalmenson May 28, 2010

“To adlib or not to adlib; ah that is the question!” Whether it is nobler or not nobler in the minds of most men, is definitely not the question; it’s the challenge that counts! (Besides… we’re talking about actors and actresses.) The search for the answer to the actor’s commercial voice over performance decision making…

Focus

ByHarvey Kalmenson May 21, 2010

No man is lonely while he’s eating spaghetti; it takes so much attention. (Think about it.) But perhaps we should call it “focus.” If one doesn’t focus when he or she consumes any form of life’s sustenance, then he or she, a.k.a. “the consumer”, is destined to be forever known as the consummate slob. A…

Outtakes & Intakes

ByHarvey Kalmenson May 18, 2010

I have never saved an outtake. I may have recorded them during a session or an audition, but by the end of the day, that same day, they were erased and discarded forever. Going one step further, I have never shared a recorded outtake with anyone other than the actor who had delivered the blooper…

Be the Judge

ByHarvey Kalmenson May 5, 2010

“While I am still alive, I plan on living forever.” “Don’t die, until you’re dead.” – HK / 2010 You Be The Judge “Will You Be Living Forever” So many of us would have quit if we made the mistake of listening to or taking advice from someone deemed by society to be in a…

Some Special Days In May

ByHarvey Kalmenson May 1, 2010

It’s a very old and over worked cliché – you know, the one about how time keeps flying by. I would guess everybody has said it at one time or another. Only the very young little kids, awaiting something great like Christmas morning, or summer vacation to begin, measure time as if it were at…