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By Admin, on October 27th, 2008
 
Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. This time its dedicated to all those women (although men have been known to act up like this too) that wish you something –other-than-the-best. It’s “Trippin the Prom Queen” by Susan Shapiro Barash.
The author talks about how women can be heir own worst enemy and exposes the dark world of female envy and competition. She dissects the myths about female friendships and exposes the true relationship: rivalry.
The book explains which areas women are most competitive in, how different they are from men, when its healthy competition and when its not, and uses these beliefs to then talk about how they can form strong relationships with both friends and colleagues, and grow to be strong and self sufficient.
Is it worth reading? It can…
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By Admin, on October 19th, 2008
Director: D J Caruso
Cast: Shia LaBoeuf, Michelle Monaghan, Billy Bob Thorton.
Plot: Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.
Steven Spielbergs latest movie was what I would have expected from him. The action packed film had very good special effects and for the most part believable stunts. His prodigy boy, Shia LeBeouf does a pretty good job although I have to say the part doesnt deviate much from his past roles of ‘rebel’.
I think the first 15 minutes of the movie drag on a bit too long. There is no need to give us such deep background information to set us up.…
Continue reading MOVIE REVIEW: EAGLE EYE (2008)
By Admin, on October 19th, 2008
Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. This time it’s the Hard-edged “True and False” by David Mamet…
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By Admin, on September 28th, 2008
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive…
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By Admin, on September 15th, 2008
  Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. In this case we talk about ART BY COMMITTEE A guide to advanced improvisation by Charna Halpern.
The book is a follow-up to the book Truth In Comedy, in which the author explains in detail the Harold method used at the i.O. (formerly Improv Olympic) in Chicago and the i.O. West in Los Angeles where actors such as Tina Fey, Chris Farley, Mike Meyers…etc have all studied. And in all honesty, she refers quite a bit to such method throughout the first half of the book without really explaining it which can be very annoying if you haven’t read it.
Basically the Harold method is a technique to have all actors from a group onstage at the same time in…
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By Admin, on September 15th, 2008
 Cast: Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Thelma Ritter
Dir: John Rich
Synopsis: American playboy Bernard Lawrence has cleverly designed a system using the airline timetables to keep going three affairs with flight stewardesses. However, his life soon starts to descend into a shambles after the arrival of a friend, Robert Reed, and a dreaded change to the flight order, whereby it becomes increasingly difficult to keep his three fiancées apart…
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By Admin, on September 9th, 2008
 
Like every week we post a book review on a subject related to acting, health, personal growth or anything related to the showbiz industry. In this case its Robert Blumenfeld’s revised and expanded edition of “Accents: A manual for actors”.
It’s a great tool to give us actors and one that is so complete is hard to come along. The one-place to find it all.
The book includes:
-Asian Accents: Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Burmese, Thai, Indonesian….etc
-African Accents: South African, Zulu, Sub-Saharan, Ethiopian, Nigerian, Ugandan, Congo, Swahili…etc.
-Middle Eastern: Arabic Accents, Egyptian, Hebrew, Persian…etc
-Slavic Accents: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian…
-Germanic Accents: German, Prussian, Bavarian, Viennese, Yiddish, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish…etc
-Romance Accents: French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian…etc.
But what is truly impressive is that it separates…
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