SOME OF MY CHARMERS… CONTINUED Hans Conried introduced method reflection to my commercial life— without having any idea at all that he was becoming an instrumental force in the furthering of my career. Hans Conried, in his time, was known from coast to coast because of his numerous television appearances as “Uncle Tonoose”…
Some of my charmers… I have always used John Houseman as a reference for a variety of things… John’s respect for the journeyman actor is a guide to what one must do in order to keep their head screwed on during their quest for acceptance as an actor. No detail was too small for John…
Observations, Act II A Continuance To sum up my self-inflicted anguish: there is one more glimpse into my life’s anxiety that may be worthwhile for some of you to hear. It was an unforeseen question delivered by my sixteen-year-old daughter that caught me off guard. And it offered me an understanding of what living life,…
As written, produced, played by little-known writer: Harvey Kalmenson (da scribe) Time: Early morning 5:00 am Date: Probably summer, 1962. Place: Not on a farm or ranch, unfortunately. VO Actor: Da Scribe Direction: Stream of consciousness, with a small degree of wonderment. Is there anything ever really etched in stone… Which may or may not…
Work Ethic I actually had an actor tell me that he really wasn’t concerned over social graces or work ethic. He even went on to question my veracity as a lecturer who would have the audacity of saying or thinking, “work ethic had little or anything at all to do with a person…
Our own personal civil warIT happened, and I was there and deeply affected by it: The Strike of 2000 As an aside from my honest intention of keeping personal opinions to myself, rendering only solutions that will assist and encourage actors on their path towards success, I, nevertheless, feel duty-bound to offer my…
What about you and the director? Those were the days my friends, you and me, we thought they’d never end. Hello, here we go again– the voiceover industry has changed for the umpteenth time. Just a short couple of years ago, right before we all were hit with the atrocious happening called Covid-19,…
Then and now, what was, and what would it become! Click, click; it’s 2022 Da harv is still here Wait just a minute What about you Could it be Whence you say Forty-five years ago Oh, I seem to recall A very warm and sunny June day A wife was about to have me leave…
And now for the dreaded protocols… Hello, there are none—“protocols” that is. There are wonderful theories each and every week that actors in all career stages manage to pass around. (It’s kind of like being in the army, and being privy to the latest rumor.) But protocols, for what to do, when to…
Our classes pay very little attention to the mechanical, while at the same time zeroing in on feelings. I choose to consider the voice as a mechanical instrument. It has no brain. What a person feels is hopefully what they are able to truthfully convey by the use of their voice. …