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Keeping It Reel: An Actor's Blog

I'm always thinking. Sometimes I write. So think of this blog as my mental sketchbook. You never know what I'll post. Sometimes it might be a written post. Sometimes it might be just a photo or drawing.

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- February 24, 2019

Mahershala Ali.

Such an incredible talent.

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Birdman...Wordman

- July 14, 2015

Let me just say from the start of this post this is not a review of the 2014 film Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Michael Keaton. It's not a review. Watch it or don't. Totally up to you. My silly little blog couldn't possibly persuade you one way or the other. I guess what has my brain racing and my emotions a little tweaked is the theme of Birdman, which, in my opinion, is the struggle to find and keep oneself in a business that is so good at helping you lose yourself. Birdman is definitely a commentary on show business, more specifically the trend of raising actors to a level of almost God-like status because they played characters who had been raised to the level of almost God-like status. Birdman is also a commentary on those who work in this industry and how everyone is affected by fame and ego and the fear of rejection. There...

Legends & Lies: The Real West

- April 02, 2015

Production has wrapped. Post-production continues. Nothing will stop the Sunday, April 12th premiere of Legends & Lies on The Fox News Channel. Whether " Into the West " or " The Real Wes t" is the subtitle still remains unclear. Who pays attention to subtitles though? Seriously. Do you remember the James Cameron blockbuster Titanic had the subtitle " Love On The Rocks ?" Steel Magnolias had the subtitle " The Reckoning ?" Of course you don't! Regardless if we're heading into the west or the real west , this mini-series was an epic undertaking which took 62 days to shoot in 4 different states. Produced by Warm Spring Productions and shot by LionHeart FilmWorks the filming of Legends & Lies was an epic undertaking. Every little boy wants to be a cowboy at one time or another. Only a few get to live the dream for real. Even fewer get to don the Stetson and six guns and climb onto the back of a horse for a short...

MONEY and all the ugliness of it

- April 18, 2015

It's expensive following your dreams. Timing might get you an opportunity. Talent might get you in the door. Luck might get the shot. Money, though, money is what keeps it going. There's a lot of expense to being an actor. It's true you have to spend it to make it, but when you don't have it, what are the chances you are going to make it? PROFESSIONAL HEAD SHOTS. ka-CHING! CASTING WEBSITE SUBSCRIPTIONS ka-CHING! OTHER PROFESSIONAL WEBSITES ka-CHING! WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES ka-CHING! TRAVEL ka-CHING! CLOTHES ka-CHING! AGENTS AND/OR MANAGERS ka-CHING! GYM MEMBERSHIPS ka-CHING! THERAPY ka-CHING! ka-CHING! Therapy is expensive! I don't know what to do. This is just crazy. How do you base following your dreams on your financial situation? And yet...there it is. Venting is free. Nice to know some things about my professional life are. Just keeping it reel. Copyright 2015 All Rights Reser...