Posts Tagged ‘Hollywood’

who knew?

Forget Acting!

I should be a PSYCHIC!

All of my Comedy Pilot Predictions came true!  Too bad I can’t predict what’s gonna happen in my own “career”, Ugh!

Congrats to all behind the shows that were picked up!  Can’t wait for you to come back from the Upfronts, so we can MOVE ON to– Read the rest of this entry »

This is the first Pilot Season where I’m just not invested.  Trying to figure out why.  More and more, it feels like the business side is overruling the creative side with FORMULAS being the FOCUS and that depresses me. It’s all about WHO THE NETWORKS WANT TO BE IN BUSINESS WITH – big name directors, big name talent. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, but the emphasis on big name talent has changed Pilot Season for Actors like me. There are fewer and fewer opportunities if your name isn’t big.

BIG UGH!

And with all of the second-guessing and recasting, it’s even more stressful and exhausting. That’s part of it, but things just haven’t seemed the same since they stopped printing DAILY VARIETY. I miss my hard copies! I miss reading them leisurely over lattes and I miss caring about any of it!

I’m thinking about getting into MUSIC or FASHION or PHOTOGRAPHY – anything other than Acting, because living from one Pilot Season to the next SUCKS!

but while we’re on the subject… COMEDIES IN CONTENTION include: Read the rest of this entry »

How do I connect the dots?

You know how you feel after your best friend loses ten pounds? FAT!

I’m sitting at my computer, waiting for my agent Josh to email me audition details, while writing a “thank you” to this casting director who met with me, and trying to figure out how to be more creative with my depressing career when I get this email alert from Deadline Hollywood:

‘Adulting’ Comedy From J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Lands At Fox As Put Pilot – Deadline.com

J.J. Abrams has been a hero of mine ever since he wrote FELICITY (when he was Jeffrey Abrams) so I CLICK on the link and read about this Oregon-based journalist Kelly Williams Brown who’s written a book: Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 387 Easy(ish) Steps – based on her blog with the same name—so I think — Ugh— here comes the next Lena Dunham, who –or is it “whom”? — I LOVE btw— I’m just JEALOUS — and I check out Brown’s adulting blog. (WARNING: don’t Google “adulting” – it’ll take you to places you do not want to go, trust me!) Read the rest of this entry »

Nana Jane is a NIGHTMARE!

Notice lately that we’re laughing more at MEAN?  When did TV comedy go from teasing to sarcastic to caustic to down-and-out-demeaning?

Try finding any famous lines from Phoebe, Chandler, Ross or Rachel that are worse than teasing. I couldn’t.

Fraiser and Niles Crane were sarcastic, but had heart. Alan Harper is uncomplimentary — but he’s talking about himself.

Alex and Hayley Dunphy are sibling-and-age-appropriate-mean-girls, but they usually learn some loving lesson by the end the episode.

Hateful Ha-Ha – Is it the Current TV Trend?

Sue Sylvester may have started the trend, but somehow we don’t cringe when she says —

I’m going to ask you to smell your armpits. That’s the smell of failure, and it’s stinking up my office.” Read the rest of this entry »

It’s weird how on some days the world looks SUNNY and on other days it feels very DARK. And it has nothing to do with the weather most of the time.

Am I the only one who believes in me?
Will my hopes actually happen?
Am I idealistic?
Unrealistic?
Delusional?

If you’re an Actor; if you’re self-employed; if you free lance;  if you’re in any creative field whatsoever, you can relate, right?

Highs and Lows —

Some days are filled with REJECTION – other days with HOPE. And when you wake up in the morning, you’re never quite sure which one you’re gonna get. Read the rest of this entry »

are you listening?

Just saw RUBY SPARKS – so honest, deep, true and a little tough when you’re not quite ready for it. The show-stopping risky scene toward the end made me go WHOA big time. Not surprisingly, Zoe Kazan wrote her great scene herself.  She wrote and produced this little Fox Searchlight gem with her BF Paul Dano, who starred in it with her. How ROMANTIC! How PROACTIVE! How GENIOUS!

Directing DESTINY –

Actors (especially YOUNG CREATIVE WOMEN Actors-turned-MULTI-HYPHENATES) have started putting their destiny into their own hands. It seems like it’s the only way to keep from being a puppet, waiting for someone to pull strings.

Next weekend Rashinda Jones’ CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER  is being released. Jones co-wrote, produced and (incidentally) is starring in it – destiny in her own hands…

Krysten Ritter did it with LIFE HAPPENS.
Maybe we should all make our own —

• LIVES HAPPEN
• CAREERS HAPPEN
• HAPPINESS HAPPEN.

If this is a trend,
I LIKE it.
I want to LEARN from it.
I want to TRY IT!

it's always there

I love when people surprise me…

Last night  I loaded my reel into Dropbox and sent myself a “test” link to see if it would work. But it didn’t. So I emailed Aaron, my super-nice Mac tech. Read the rest of this entry »