It’s a terribly sickening day for me with my Scottish roots. I’m ashamed of the Gunn Scottish Crest Badge that reads Aut Pax Aut Bellum (“In Peace and War”).
However, there are Gunn ties to Norway as well, so, I’d rather at this time embrace my Norwegian roots and do wholeheartedly support a travel ban to Scotland for the next year due to the release of the convicted Lockerbie terrorist bomber and wretched hero's welcome he received.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Sponsor Liz Lewis Casting--EIF Revlon Run/Walk For Women
Entertainment Industry Foundation Revlon Run/Walk For Women—SPONSOR LIZ LEWIS CASTING
Our great colleagues at Liz Lewis Casting Partners are participating in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women this Saturday, May 2nd (2009) in NYC. Please pledge your support.
You can click on Liz Lewis Casting Partners donation page at https://www.revlonrunwalk.com/ny/secure/teamwebpage.cfm?pID=46902
Soiree Fair, Inc. wholeheartedly supports and thanks the Liz Lewis Team for their charge in helping this most worthy cause.
Hey everybody—pitch in. It’ll fill your soul.
Our great colleagues at Liz Lewis Casting Partners are participating in the Revlon Run/Walk for Women this Saturday, May 2nd (2009) in NYC. Please pledge your support.
You can click on Liz Lewis Casting Partners donation page at https://www.revlonrunwalk.com/ny/secure/teamwebpage.cfm?pID=46902
Soiree Fair, Inc. wholeheartedly supports and thanks the Liz Lewis Team for their charge in helping this most worthy cause.
Hey everybody—pitch in. It’ll fill your soul.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
IT'S TOO MUCH NONSENSE FOR SO LITTLE...
For the love of Pete!
As we all try to stay afloat financially, mentally and socially I still have to take to my bed on occasion for having the last ounce of patience, hope and stuffing knocked out of me.
The most recent blow to the jaw (and you can't have a glass jaw in this racket) came when an ex-client (and he had to become ex after this crap) had booked a modest paying film and after a week of production delays decided he didn’t want to do it anymore, stating he “didn’t like the way he was being treated” and decided the salary was too meager for his middle-aged responsibilities. I was vociferously informed at that point that he lived in an $8 million dollar home and didn’t NEED to do this film. This was all news to me that I frankly didn’t believe or give a rat’s behind about. He knew the salary when he accepted the booking. My theory is, is that his wife or some other influential relative chided him for putting his J. Worthington Foulfellow, actor’s life dream ahead of his good sense and he caved under deep embarrassment.
I screwed up on this guy. I should have known when he started calling me sweetheart after a couple of auditions that this was the type of guy that would go out to get a pack of cigarettes and never come back. What a dump!
This was one of the extreme cases. I can usually nip this stuff in the bud. What usually happens is that I can smell the crazy burning when actors and actresses go on a series of auditions with great feedback and no cigar and then I start getting suggestions for other types of projects they should be getting seen for that they can book. It’s always the same buck and wing dance—when someone’s getting film auditions, they want voiceovers, and when they’re getting commercials they want TV and when they’re getting theatre they want print. Count to ten and think about it folks! Fear is the greatest eradicator of ego for some, and the greatest motivator for others. In this day and age of being an actor, it’s all about what you do during your “down” time to stay focused and fresh and ready for when your number is called. So, yes, essentially you are expected to be able to do any audition you are given in just about any medium—that’s why you are a Soiree Fair, Inc. client. I stay in the hunt for clients that have the ability to work non-stop. All I need is the second coming of Scatman Crothers. Careers are made through a laborious process. Yes, it is a process…so let’s all suck it up like a ShamWow!™.
Danke Schoen, folks.
As we all try to stay afloat financially, mentally and socially I still have to take to my bed on occasion for having the last ounce of patience, hope and stuffing knocked out of me.
The most recent blow to the jaw (and you can't have a glass jaw in this racket) came when an ex-client (and he had to become ex after this crap) had booked a modest paying film and after a week of production delays decided he didn’t want to do it anymore, stating he “didn’t like the way he was being treated” and decided the salary was too meager for his middle-aged responsibilities. I was vociferously informed at that point that he lived in an $8 million dollar home and didn’t NEED to do this film. This was all news to me that I frankly didn’t believe or give a rat’s behind about. He knew the salary when he accepted the booking. My theory is, is that his wife or some other influential relative chided him for putting his J. Worthington Foulfellow, actor’s life dream ahead of his good sense and he caved under deep embarrassment.
I screwed up on this guy. I should have known when he started calling me sweetheart after a couple of auditions that this was the type of guy that would go out to get a pack of cigarettes and never come back. What a dump!
This was one of the extreme cases. I can usually nip this stuff in the bud. What usually happens is that I can smell the crazy burning when actors and actresses go on a series of auditions with great feedback and no cigar and then I start getting suggestions for other types of projects they should be getting seen for that they can book. It’s always the same buck and wing dance—when someone’s getting film auditions, they want voiceovers, and when they’re getting commercials they want TV and when they’re getting theatre they want print. Count to ten and think about it folks! Fear is the greatest eradicator of ego for some, and the greatest motivator for others. In this day and age of being an actor, it’s all about what you do during your “down” time to stay focused and fresh and ready for when your number is called. So, yes, essentially you are expected to be able to do any audition you are given in just about any medium—that’s why you are a Soiree Fair, Inc. client. I stay in the hunt for clients that have the ability to work non-stop. All I need is the second coming of Scatman Crothers. Careers are made through a laborious process. Yes, it is a process…so let’s all suck it up like a ShamWow!™.
Danke Schoen, folks.
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