The Casting Couch
This week: Virtual Foreplay (Sunday, November 22, 2009) A reader recently reached out to me asking for guidance on a taboo subject that I idealistically would like to believe had died with film noir and had been relegated to the sovereignty of sex films. What is it? The casting couch. His detailing of requested debauchery from a professional [...]

Actor Marketing & Behind-The-Scenes Dish; An audio post
This week: Actor Advertising via Many Mediums & More (Sunday, November 15, 2009) A special expletive audio post (click on arrow) this week covering many areas of actor marketing plus a bit of behind-the-audition table tales. Audition for a panel of agents who have Oscar, Emmy & Tony-award winning clients Now is one of two times a year when [...]

Accents at Auditions
This week: “Ze play is ze-How you say? -Is the thing, yes?” (Sunday, November 8, 2009) I’m reaching way back for this one. Questions have been piling up. The following had been lost for so long it was beginning to resemble Mackenzie Phillips’ acting career. A reader  — long ago when Sarah Boyle was “the it girl” (Sarah [...]

Political Play: Getting Ahead as an Actor
This week: Rule #7 of Political Play in the Performing Arts: Loyalty (Sunday, November 1, 2009) There is one client that I had who one day in auditions turned and said to me, “I’m a loyalist.” And he’s been loyal to me and my career and I have returned in kind my devotion to him and the [...]

Publicity Blunders
This week: “Careful the things you do. Children will see and learn.” (Sunday, October 25, 2009) Balloon boy. If you haven’t heard by now the alleged publicity punking of America then you must have been in a perpetual tech-week (sorry) or fixated on your Wii (oh, you need to get a life). Fame and attention. Nouns conjoined — [...]