A Call From Within

What do you do on a daily basis to manifest your destiny? That sounds incredibly dramatic, but having a routine can be the one tool that can eventually break you through to the other side. Get your confidence back. You might think that you’re an actor, but if I asked what have you done, that could cause a serious rupture in your ego. But if you do something every single day... Read More

Actions!!!

Recently had a very successful actor friend inform me of the importance of Grad School for acting.  (Of course who has money for grad school?)  However he did comment on how acting these days has become about manifesting emotions and reactions as opposed to relating and connecting.  And I agree.  Even looking at my own work, I’ve realized how less active it has become. I... Read More

Tapped into the Source

The Sixth Sense is an extrasensory perception. Other worldly? Phenomenal. Sublime. Try tapping into and working within this space next time you create. See what you can discover.  And please.  Don’t judge it. – TV, Bitch!  Read More

sixth sense

This week we’ll be touching on That other sense. Explaining the unexplainable. The dead space, the quiet space. Knowing without defining. It lives within all of us. For now, let’s call it the Sixth Sense. The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle   seeks to bring about a transformation of human consciousness. The book focuses on spirituality... Read More

Sensory Wrap Up

That’s it for the 5 senses:  Hearing, Seeing, Touching, Smelling, & Tasting.  Hopefully you’ve figured out what your strongest and weakest senses are.  Hopefully you’ll work towards improving those senses in the real and imaginary worlds.  Remember, a living breathing sensory being is open to all the signals from their body.  During a performance, wouldn’t... Read More

Taste Test

What do these videos do for your taste buds?  Don’t be afraid to go there… Did your sense of smell kick in too? – TV, Bitch!  Read More

Believe

Happy Holloween Folks! In these spooky times, think about how the power of suggestion can inspire the actor through imaginary circumstances. How a performance might have an impact over an audience. And how one could “suggest” oneself to believe ANYTHING. –TV, Bitch!  Read More

VH1 Scream Queen Clips

Did you ever catch the VH1 reality show, Scream Queens?  It basically followed ten young ladies competing for the opportunity to be cast in a major horror film and crowned the Scream Queen.  As with any reality series, the contestants participate in a variety of challenges that evaluate their progress and potential.  And with any reality series, some of the challenges are just... Read More

The ghost of Houdini

Houdini is best known as a magician and escape artist, of course, but at the height of his fame he was also drawn to Hollywood, where he made a handful of silent films from 1919 to 1923. With such titles as The Man from Beyond and Haldane of the Secret Service (which he also directed), the films were not regarded well enough to give him much of a Hollywood career. Houdini’s... Read More

SCREAM QUEENS!!

A scream queen is an actress who has become associated with horror films, either through an appearance in a notable entry in the genre as a frequent victim or through constant appearances as the female protagonist. Fay Wray is noted as the first scream queen while Jamie Lee Curtis is noted as a person who helped revive the scream queen title with her performance in the popular slasher... Read More