by anitakumar | Feb 3, 2017 | Tough Love for Actors, US
An actor isn’t successful unless famous. A musician isn’t successful unless they have a bountiful bank account. The anachronistic movie musical La La Land, filmed in the style of a late 1940s/early 1950s movie musical set in modern day, demonstrates how Hollywood...
by anitakumar | Jan 4, 2017 | Tough Love for Actors, US
How can you be the happier actor? Possibly the happiest actor on Earth? (Planet domination of joy may be theme park hyperbole.) If we’re to believe Irving Berlin, show people are deliriously happy—branded so in his jaunty show tune lyric, “There’s no people like show...
by anitakumar | Mar 31, 2016 | Tough Love for Actors, US
Is writing about yourself a wincing, dreadful proposition, equal to the prospect of a dinner theater staging of Sweeney Todd starring Sarah Palin and Gilbert Gottfried? When sending an e-mail in response to a casting notice are you left witless as to what to type onto...
by anitakumar | Jan 14, 2016 | Tough Love for Actors, US
Did you know that Domhnall Gleeson is the #1 IMDb STARmeter ranked actor for being a Taurus? Your either thinking, “Who???,” “What’s my astrological ranking on IMDb?,” or better yet, “Yeah, so what? I’m a Virgo.”...
by anitakumar | Nov 20, 2015 | Tough Love for Actors, Uncategorized, US
Representing NYC-based actors a talent agent, based in the Philadelphia area, apparently charges clients a fee as part of representation. The three-figure fee is stated by the agent as “a necessity.” Required so that the actor be included on the agent’s website. A...
by anitakumar | Oct 12, 2015 | Tough Love for Actors, US
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” – Theodore Roosevelt Every artist shares a demon. When will you slay the beast? An actor’s journey can be a self-imposed hell if the actor eyes the successes of peers with envy. Sound familiar? You look over...
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