Was making breakfast on Saturday morning and flipped on the tv to keep me company and it was on one of my favorite channels, TCM, Turner Classic Movies. They were showing Laurence Olivier's Hamlet (1948). There was something about the woman who was playing Queen Gertrude. I couldn't tear my eyes away from her. There
I heard a story once about people in a foreign land trying to communicate, one spoke English and the other didn't. And the English person just kept talking louder and louder and making bigger gestures with their hands -- even though the two people communicating didn't have a language in common. That's what I thought
Discovered a great second career tip from an interview I read recently with Masi Oka, who plays Hiro Nakamura on Heroes on NBC-TV. He had been discouraged and thinking about leaving acting. Then the casting request for Heroes went out, and they were looking for three things in a young actor: