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Looking Back

The other day, for whatever the reason, I found myself wondering about years past, as I looked in the mirror during my early morning “get ready” for work routine. It was a good thing. The way it used to be, way back in the fifth or sixth grade. I’m sure most of you over the…

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Books Are My Friends

Books are my friends, my true friends. They give, and give, and continue to give. When I only want to concern myself with my needs, and wants, and joys, and perhaps even fantasies or dreams, books are there just for me; selfish da harv. My books are old and new. They are my stewards. These…

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The Experienced Actor

Most experienced actors; the successful ones, that is, enjoy being given performance notes by a director. Make no mistake… giving an actor performance notes is a distinct craft within itself. Some consider it to be the art of psychology at its highest state. Some actors have been known to be a little touchy, considering any…

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Improvisation

Answering a question I’ve been asked over and over again is worthwhile for me to do, when I determine the number of actors my answer may be helping. One question comes at me more often than any of the others. “What can I do to keep myself up to date and in the game?” Basically…

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

“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…

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Be the Judge

“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…

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Some Special Days In May

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…