Fresh video about the SAG Contract From Rob Schneider…
Flyer That Was Passed Around
Oscar Prep’s Back!
Jim Carrey tweeted just the text alone, without the photo, on Twitter. It’s funnier that way, so I suggest reading his words which I arrowed so you can tell! (Jim Carrey knows how to devise a joke, uh, as you know. Watch how he unfolds it, here.)
Tech hell! Tech Hell! Just happened again! Even when publishing this Jon Hamm (substitute) post!
I am so outa here. Latah….
Kinda Like Improv, Dontcha Think…? Video clip from JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE. Recommended on Twitter by @RedHourBen… Who is also on Hollywood Actor Prep, giving an Acting Advice 1 Liner (link). (If you don’t already know, I am @__dana__ on Twitter, and that’s a link to my page there, too.) Best, Dana Please do share, …and, [...]
Link to a very funny rotating CHARLIE SHEEN BLOCK screensaver. Quote: ‘Sorry Charlie, but it is time to leave the Internet and go back to your porn family. Let this be the hangover cure for the #winning buzz from which everyone is still recovering.’ [Got some personal issues with people like him, so like this. I do.]
Jesse Eisenberg Was My Top Choice For The Best Leading Actor Academy Award® …So… therefore, I kid because I love (his acting ability)… There’s a commercial which about which I am making a repugnant face right now. Some of that’s just because I’m tired from the AcadAw’s, and some of it’s because there’s a [...]
If You’ve Ever Complained About Having To Memorize Lines…Believe me, teleprompters are harder. You have to keep up with the speed; make it look like you aren’t reading, make it look real…
Here’s Anne Hathaway practicing for her Oscar® hosting gig:
Video of Facebook’s surprise appearance on SNL. Academy Award nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg was hosting the show, while sharing the stage with Andy Samberg (impersonating Mark Zuckerberg!)
Beside his comic brilliance, that is, there is something to mention about Paul Reubens, the actor who invented and plays the character, PeeWee Herman…(with VIDEO OF SNL DIGITAL SHORT W ANDY SAMBERG)
Why Might These Videos Have Value For Actors?
1. One of the most valuable things to do is to laugh. That’s my opinion.
2. It’s also a gift to be able to make people laugh. Funny Or Die has contributions some of the funniest actors and comedians.
2. Original Web Material. That looks…
Academy Award Winning Actor, Ben Kingsley, Acted Like He, Too, Wanted To Be Noticed By Michael Bay……Whether or not there was a role for him, or even one available. Just like Heidi Montag.
(Remember her on camera audition, here, at Hollywood Actor Prep? If you didn’t see it already, that’s a link!)
This guest actor “ACTUALLY READ THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION”, with an expert attorney.
Laura writes about some of the worst that’s in the ‘fine print’…and what’s NOT THERE?
Guest Acting Post by Edoardo Ballerini…His most recognizable television acting credits are “The Sopranos” and currently, “Boardwalk Empire”…amongst others…For Hollywood Actor Prep, he wrote about what his actor’s journey has been, so far, along his path of creating an acting career, and working as a professional.
This breaking-into-acting experience is a triumphant story. From an actress on ‘Outsourced’, on NBC. She went to an Open Call Audition, for TV extras…Wound up a ongoing character on the show.
This actress and guest blogger writes that she got teary. So did I.
About breaking into acting, about making success in the acting profession. The next post of LA Actor, Robert Wu, will not only inspire actors of Asian, or other specific types…this actor’s guest post will inspire all actors.
When I met this Texas actor on Twitter, and I learned he lived in Austin; I was stoked. I’d been to Austin on a roadtrip back in my college days, where I had a wild weekend of live music…Many LA actors that originally come from Texas; buy an additional home there, after they start to make some real acting bucks. Directors like Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater live there…
Graciously, Hal Linden Said A Few Things When I Told Him About My Acting Community …Of actors, that subscribe to Hollywood Actor Prep. Advice on trouble with a professional acting career.
One of the things that they have developed is a way to get actors ready for award show season. They have specific exercises for posture, and teach how to stand when on the red carpet. I went and filmed them talking about it.
I Would Be Posting Here On Hollywood Actor Prep:
My exclusive little truthful tale of how an actress secured herself the lead in one of his movies. Graham King’s a ‘prolific producer’; he’s got four films in post-production, right now.
He’s Martin Scorcese’s producing partner…yesterday, too brought him a brand new deal with Sony.
I Would Be Posting Here On Hollywood Actor Prep:
My exclusive little truthful tale of how an actress secured herself the lead in one of his movies. Graham King’s a ‘prolific producer’; he’s got four films in post-production, right now.
He’s Martin Scorcese’s producing partner…yesterday, too brought him a brand new deal with Sony.
Erma Bombeck was a newspaper columnist. I read this near the beginning of my career. Something about acting, choosing to pursue it, wholly, after the love and passion of it chooses you well before… It seems to be just about as fully alive as anyone can feel. Can be. Here’s Erma Bombeck’s lifefull, and wistful [...]
But… if you are going around doing measly auditions that aren’t really going to highlight you and that no one is going to come to, or uccch, not even hire you for; or you’re spending all your time doing extra work, or worse: paying dues at the unions and barely making rent and not getting any decent auditions…Don’t. Prioritize, to maximize, the priorities, first. The ones that will amount…
But… if you are going around doing measly auditions that aren’t really going to highlight you and that no one is going to come to, or uccch, not even hire you for; or you’re spending all your time doing extra work, or worse: paying dues at the unions and barely making rent and not getting any decent auditions…Don’t. Prioritize, to maximize, the priorities, first. The ones that will amount…
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Rob Schneider is a good actor and he has his point of view on all this and I applaud him for not calling Vote Yes people liars, traitors or idiots. But Rob is not a “journeyman actor”; he is quite successful and certainly in the league of several prominent Vote No actors. And Rob has some facts wrong.
The first one is the work slowdown. That was in effect long before the bottom dropped out of our economy,and it was because SAG had no contract as of June 2008. Sure, tax incentives are at issue as well, but the bulk of it is that studios don’t want to get stuck in production if a strike happens.
The second is the money for re-use on the internet. To present those numbers without context is very misleading. Right now, we get NOTHING AT ALL from new media. The new contract would give us TWICE THE DVD RATE as a start, AND we would have a look at the financial “books” to start finding out how big the pie actually is and therefore what we can negotiate for NEXT TIME. Also, per an AdWeek article, even Hulu, while bringing in money, is not making a huge profit. NO ONE HAS MADE THE NEW MEDIA BUSINESS MODEL WORK YET.
The writers went on strike and got the deal that was to be had. All other deals came from that template. It’s not satisfying nor does it lend itself to slogans, but that’s the reality.
I am an actor who just started working again after a long time in the “wilderness”, lucky enough to get a new agent in 2008, got my first TV job with the new agent in JUNE 2008, just in time for us not to have a union contract. I am VOTING YES for the best deal to be had at this moment, and there ARE good things in the deal. Anyone who tells you there’s nothing there is misleading you.
There is a big difference between “fair” and “gettable”. Right now, due in some measure to the poor negotiating skills of the previous negotiator, there is no better deal to be had. If we vote no, then what?? I keep asking that, and beyond having a strike, there is no credible viable answer to what happens next.
I’ll tell you what happens after VOTING YES. The work slowdown limbo can start to get improve. More new shows can go to SAG again. When the shows start filming in a couple of months, our pension and welfare fund will get money. And the raises will go into effect. And we will get SOMETHING rather than NOTHING from New Media, as well as jurisdiction over New Media. AND WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT A MERGER WITH AFTRA and seriously looking at what we have to do and where we have to get to in alliances with WGA and DGA to get better deals in two years.