It's really weird, but over the past week and a half, people from my past have been appearing out of the woodwork. Old friends I haven't spoken to in years, emails from an ex, former coaches, and even a blogger...
A few months ago an industry person came across my reel and reached out to tell me that it was really great. ???Really???? I said. ???Are you sure you have the right actor???? Said person assured me that it was...
Because I am on a roll! Ha. Sorry - bad joke. Was directly booked from a first audition for an online commercially-type-thing. Yes, it is a frickin' "mom" role. But the pay is pretty decent and it's only one day...
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One of our readers, K.A. left this link on the comment section. YES, K.A. this version of Hallelujah is INCREDIBLE! Thank you all for posting and including the versions that you love! I love this version-- so much so, that...
The New York Clown Theatre Festival will run Sept. 5???28, mostly at the Brick Theater in Brooklyn, and will feature lectures and workshops in addition to mainstage shows, a clown cabaret, and a site-specific performance. The free events include the opening-day parade and pie fight, with clowns, jugglers, stilt walkers, and more (Fri., Sept. 5, starting at 4:30 p.m. at Union Square Park and continuing on the L train to the Brick in Williamsburg); the closing-weekend cabaret, with Red Bastard and others (Sept. 27, 10 p.m.); and the Clown Funeral Procession and closing-night party (Sept. 28, 6 p.m.). Lectures and...
Awoke at what amounted to 5am my time today to race to the theatre to check out Danny Boyle's latest, "Slumdog Millionaire." Had to sit in the front row and was dropping from exhaustion. I said to myself, "This one is going to have to be good to hold my attention today." And how. I can't remember the last time I saw film so original, so risky, so beautifully made that it felt like I was discovering movies for the first time again.
Casting director Nancy Nayor (Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, The Eye) is attached to cast Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho based on Stephen Rebello???s book of the same name. Anthony Hopkins will star as Hitchcock; Helen Mirren is rumored to be in talks to play the director???s wife, Alma Reville. Ryan Murphy (Nip/Tuck, Running With Scissors) co-wrote the script and will direct. Production will begin in the fall; locations have not been announced.
The Academy for New Musical Theatre is seeking ideas for new musicals to be developed for the Interstate Musical Theatre Project, a collection of new musicals examining American themes and culture. Musicals will be workshopped with professional actors; teams of bookwriters, lyricists, composers will be supported by dramaturges, music directors, lyricists, directors, and others. The winner, chosen from nationwide contestants, will receive $10,000 and a concert production of the cited musical at Burbank???s Colony Theatre in 2010. There is a $6,000 participation fee. The program begins Oct. 15. For more information, call (818) 506-8500 or visit www.anmt.org.
Wasn't able to make it to "The Secret Life of Bees" after all, thanks to long lines and horrid traffic everywhere. Instead, I checked out "Who Do You Love," the biopic of music producer Leonard Chess, the man responsible for launching the careers of Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and Etta James. Though Chess was just a white, Jewish kid running a junkyard in the 1940s, he had an ear for musicians that changed the industry forever.
Commence showering him with more money, though he probably does just fine, and more Emmys, though he already has 10 and he's on deck for a handful more this year. Who cares? More, more, more! Jon Stewart may be one...
It could be the next "Sex and the City," unless it's the next "First Wives Club." "The Women," which has been bumping around in development for more than a decade through myriad director and A-list actress shifts, premiered last night...
Disheveled and road weary, with visible scuff marks and a stogie sticking out of his mouth. Just how we like to see Mickey Rourke. Say, didn't he come out of the womb like that? His latest feature, Darren Aronofsky's "The...
Grammy darling Michael Buble is charming the pants off the "Today Show" chicks, Nicolas Cage's moussed page boy is only a few hours from hitting the multiplex, and cry baby Kanye has ended the VMA boycott that no one noticed....
We liked it better when he was preachifying on "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp." Oscar nominee Terrence Howard is out flogging his first record, "Shine Through It," just about everywhere these days. "The View!" "The Today Show!" "Late...
