Chapter One In the beginning God said, “Let there be actors,” and so without reservations – meaning any forethought, or real thought at all – they came forth in search of what ever it is expectant actors seek. Chapter Two Finding out what a voice over is. It appears shortly after God’s summoning…
Note: This blog post is in response to Joe Flint’s May 7th article, “Stars muffle voice-over actors” in the L.A. Times. Click here to read the article. Wake up Joe Flint. You really weren’t listening to what my partner and I had to say about our industry. After giving you a full thirty minutes of…
“To impose (something or someone unwanted) upon another by coercion or trickery” Trust me, the guys a Bigly. (Bigly, is a word I use in order to describe genuine substance of character, integrity, wholesomeness, and courage beyond normalcy? The word Bigly has nothing to do with physicality as far as I’m concerned; however there…
Can you imagine your days filled with friends coming to visit? It’s my life, within each and every day without exception, a constant parade, reverberant with an effervescence stimulated by the soldiers participating in the very same parade. If I were to hang a sign it would read,” All Actors Allowed”. I am not a…
Reaching high for tasks at your new level, and what will you see and feel when you arrive there? We don’t know do we, because we’ve never been there before, have we? An other’s experience is just another experience. Try as you may, an altitude of your own is what life calls for. Every moment…
If you were to sleep that way, by the time morning rolled around total paralysis would have set in. Of course I had the fun advantage of watching her, and listening as she feverishly prepared to read the two-line commercial script. Armed with her trusty marking pen (ink is a no, no at best) she…
I suppose it was an obvious thing to happen at a memorial service for the likes of Robert Easton. Sixty-four years or more of building credits is understandably mind-boggling. The scroll of names of the people he had coached through the years appeared in an endless parade on a full size movie screen, which had…
Viewing and reviewing is not my reason for going to the movies. (Yes, I still call them the movies). I wonder if anyone much younger than me ever thinks of them as movies. The term movies originated just for the reason one might think; before there were movies, what you had to look at were…
PREAMBLE: My very few words that follow were stimulated by a lifetime of beliefs (mine) in the United States of America (my country, and yours as well). Wearing the uniform of our American army during a war has perhaps given me, and a very select group of comrades, men and women, an unequalled opportunity to…
They’re never going to believe you, but you tell it anyway. After all, you were there, and besides it gives you so much absolute fun to recall the complete absurdity, or total charm, of a past moment, of a past era, of another day. You may have been much younger then, or it might be…