How I Hit a Home Run Casting Kids for ‘Home Run Showdown’
Director Oz Scott shares how he found child actors in Michigan for "Home Run Showdown."
First Person
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Something was really wrong. I felt disturbed and abandoned by my own body. Please make this stop. I pleaded and then cried in the hallway. Alone. Panic gripped me.
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Some people do yoga. I hang out in a little cigar shop on Melrose Avenue. I come here to center myself, to think, to contemplate the meaning of my existence, and existence in general.
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Al Pacino once said an acting teacher can ruin an actor. It's one of the most delicate things to instruct, and there are so many hacks out there, you have to be very careful whom you hire.
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There's No Business Like... Paying to Meet Agents
Someone thought it would be great if actors could meet agents and managers without having an "in"—a referral of some kind. Now, they are as commonplace as insurance commercials.
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I can hear the assistant director intone into the walkie-talkie: "This is now a 'closed set.'" In movies, closed sets happen when nudity is involved. In this case, mine.
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How I Turned My Depression Into a Film Festival Success
Actor Jules Bruff discusses how she made "Part Time Fabulous," a film about her personal battle with Clinical Depression.
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As I eyeball the pasties, it hits me that I have—basically—just signed up to be a human mannequin for the day. A half-naked one at that.
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Balancing Motherhood, Marriage, and Acting and Enjoying It
Actor, writer, teacher and mompreneur Cynthia Silver discusses the genesis for her hit one-woman show, "Bridezilla Strikes Back!"
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"I have to warn you, it's not just modeling," she said. Wow, I thought, stretching all five-foot-two of me. I look like a prospective model? Now this is new. "He wants you to sell things out of a cigar tray."
