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Thanks to James Morrison for this one:
Posted by James Morrison Actor on Thursday, October 20, 2022
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Glenn R. Wilder was a stuntman, stunt actor, stunt coordinator, action designer, second unit director and a founding member of Stunts Unlimited. He would have been 89 today. Happy Birthday in Heaven Mushi!
Posted by Stunts Unlimited on Thursday, September 1, 2022
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From Paul Peterson (The Donna Reed Show) on lifelong friend Tony Dow (Leave it to Beaver) after his passing
I suppose I should share with you how uniquely close I was to Tony Dow. There are not too many of us, you know, teenage...
Posted by Paul Petersen on Sunday, August 7, 2022
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Progress is being made, but does it benefit everyone? You decide:
“Artists should be able to work rather than putting the power with the studios.” - CA Assemblyman Ash Kalra
Artists should not be forced into unemployment. Support the #LAWAct (AB 437) and #LetArtistsWork!
Posted by SAG-AFTRA on Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Bruce A. Simon from Legacy Members posted in CAST & TALENT
Great Vin Scully tribute from Cameraman Michael May on FB
One of the best tributes to Vin Scully we've read:
https://www.facebook.com/1116190789/posts/10227498806311904/Posted by Crew-List.net on Wednesday, August 3, 2022
Michael Belson posted in CAST & TALENT
Go boldly indeed, Uhura! - 💔 Nichelle Nichols
Go Boldly Ms. Nichols
Posted by Crew-List.net on Sunday, July 31, 2022
Bruce A. Simon from Legacy Members posted in CAST & TALENT
"When I started my career, I thought I would be a character actor. I never thought I had a chance at leading man roles....
Posted by Cinema Shorthand Society on Wednesday, July 13, 2022
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"ME? AUDITION?" - Shelley Winters
As the years wore on for actress Shelley Winters the parts offered became fewer, as they are for any actress over the age of 35 even today. The project would be a B movie titled "Bloody Mama" and she was requited to....ahem...."audition" for its casting director.
Never missing an opportunity to "act" she agreed to meet those in charge. She was asked to bring a headshot and her resume along. At her arrival Shelley laid a bag on a table, whereupon she pulled out her First Academy Award stating, "There's my headshot" and proceeded to pull out her second Oscar stating, "And that's my fuckin' resume !"
Hollywood urban legend? Who cares ??!! It is the stuff of legend and Shelley Winters had proven her iconic status in films and still deserved respect for her craft.
The story may have come from her casting in "Pete's Dragon" (1977) since "Mama" was released in 1971 and she most likely took the latter role just for the paycheck.
It would have been even better if she had taken the call herself and said, "Audition? Kiss my ass."
Bruce A. Simon from Legacy Members posted in CAST & TALENT
Bruce A. Simon from Legacy Members posted in CAST & TALENT
Something worth sharing from Actor, Kathe Mazur
Actors, as a group, get a bad rap. Mocking them is so easy. They’re the ones who love to “hug”, who break out into song at parties, who are “over-dramatic”. They’re the ones who get made fun of for working as waiters, even though basically every actor fawned over by the public today did, at some point, serve them their coffee or their wine spritzers, or painted their walls. The expressions “Never date an actor” and “Never date an actress” are time-worn and immediately understood by all. Actors are at once “Narcissists” and “over-affectionate”, “Divas” and “pathetic”. You don’t want your child to be one or marry one.
They are revered while they're famous, but pitiable when they're not.
But I would like to say that I feel grateful every single day of my life that I have had the great good fortune to be trained as an actor, to have been surrounded by actors, and to work with actors. What actors do in acting classes and training programs, for starters, is unlike anything else. In any half-decent acting class in the world, actors learn to Connect: to other people, to their material (from the most banal writing) to some of the most exquisite in the world), to their imaginations and instincts, to themselves.
They are critiqued publicly and have to adjust instantaneously. They learn at every turn to think on their feet. One of the best descriptions I ever read was by the psychiatrist Brian Bates who spent a year observing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then wrote The Way of the Actor. He said this is the only profession that requires one to be simultaneously completely extroverted and completely introverted. This can be an occupational hazard, make them seem phony or “too much”, as well as highly sensitive and self-protective. And they are also, often, tremendously empathic, funny, insightful and welcoming.
Studying acting with good teachers is one of the greatest things anyone can do.
And actors are some of the most wonderful people I have ever known. We have a strange job. We are our own instrument; we are our own tools. We are always on display. We invite a lot of projection, and we open ourselves up to the world. It can bring out our insecurities. It is at best inconsistent and at worst heartbreaking, it pits us against each other and can pit us against ourselves. It offers no cover. But actors, for the most part, aren’t looking for cover. We didn’t get into this for cover. And every actor I know who went on to another profession has brought that sense of exploration and willingness to be exposed, that creativity, with them. They bring to it an extraordinary background that no one else has, and an ability to be open, connected, present, grateful, hardworking, open to criticism, endlessly creative, vulnerable, an ability to improvise, to collaborate, to read others, to CARE.
So, yeah, we get a bad rap. Much of it deserved. But oh, how grateful I am to walk among you, to be your colleague and your friend. To all the actors and former actors in my life, thank you for being on this walk together. You are a gift.
Kathe Mazur on IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0563383/
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Another edition of THR's Actor Roundatble 2022 edition.
Andrew Garfield (‘Tick Tick Boom’), Jonathan Majors (‘The Harder They Fall’), Peter Dinklage (‘Cyrano’), Nicolas Cage (‘Pig’), and Simon Rex (‘Red Rocket’) join The Hollywood Reporter for our full Actors Roundtable.
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Some are just naturals.
Surprising that Henry Thomas' career didn't just take off after ET!
Michael Belson posted in CAST & TALENT
Happy birthday to a legend! Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award honoree Rita Moreno @theritamoreno is one of the few performers to achieve the rare honor of the EGOT. Her library of work ranges from Singin’ in the Rain (1952) to TV's Electric Company and One Day at a Time, to BOTH film versions of West Side Story (1961, 2021). The documentary Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It is streaming now. #BOTD #treasure
Janna Miesner posted in CAST & TALENT
When a legend speaks.... You must listen and learn!
Peter O'Toole on playing Lawrence
Jimmy (JJ) Jacobs from Legacy Members posted in CAST & TALENT
Positive move on the part of SAG-AFTRA, and well deserved!
Cherokee American actor and producer Wes Studi has a three-decade career that has included Dances With Wolves, The Last of the Mohicans and Avatar. In 2019 he was presented an Academy Honorary Award for his body of work. #FeatureFriday #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Bruce A. Simon from Legacy Members posted in CAST & TALENT
Very nice mention on Facebook by Stepfanie Kramer on the passing of Peter Scolari
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Michael Belson posted in CAST & TALENT
We worked with this wonderful actor and human being on multiple occasions... Rest in Peace Ed!
Michael Belson posted in CAST & TALENT
Nice feature at IndustryCentral. They have been Profiling Working Actors since 1999. Here's their latest on James Morrison.
Janna Miesner posted in CAST & TALENT
Interesting SAG-AFTRA sponsored Discussion Panel aimed at awareness and stopping Asian hate and racism!
Have you witnessed or been part of this, especially in recent times?
Bruce A. Simon from Legacy Members posted in CAST & TALENT
A long time in the making and finally here!
A true herculean demonstration of tenacity and perseverance!
Congratulations and "Break-A-Leg" to Eddie Braun
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From Eddie Braun, "I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams that i would be the subject of a movie that THE biggest Action Star, and THE Biggest studio would support.
I look at how Disney put their name TWICE on the film, and it just blows me away.
i cannot objectively judge this film other than to say 2 things… I am damn proud of this film,
and I gave it ALL of my best efforts.
I sure hope anyone that sees it likes it, but if not, sorry, don’t ask me for your money back.
It’s been a fkng long 8 years for this entire project, conceived at 4am over coffee at #Starbucks MB.
My deepest gratitude to @therock @danygarciaco @hhgarcia41 @samoanstuntman @sevenbucksprod @slash @disney @disneyplus for believing we could actually pull all of it off.
💥❤️🙏👊🎬🎥
#DentTheUniverse
#DrivenPictures
#StuntsUnlimited 🖤💛
#ManhattanBeach Ca
https://www.facebook.com/Stunts-Unlimited-125376856964/
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