Unpacking a storage unit this week and found tons of cue cards, props and notebooks for my alternate reality game, Sammeeeees :) This flyer was part of the launch rabbit hole that led to a phone number. Players called and the story began. #alternaterealitygames#arg
Annette Bening says the women nominated with her at her first Oscars agreed before the show that whoever won would buy everyone dinner, and Whoopi Goldberg won and paid
"It was 34 years ago."
"and whoever won would pay."
"So, Whoopi Goldberg won."
"And Whoopi gave us this beautiful dinner,"
Five nominees who were supposed to be rivals made a deal in a huddle before the cameras came on. A week later Whoopi held up her end, with flowers in Bening's trailer and a chocolate Oscar for everybody at the table. That is how you win gracefully.
ft: @LateNightSeth Late Night with Seth Meyers on youtube
Jeff Daniels says Jack Nicholson told him on his first day of Terms of Endearment that film is not Broadway, and that is why he shows up ready on take one
"He said, what have you done?"
"And he said, well, this ain't Broadway."
"This is the pro game."
"I just came in ready to serve the story, not you."
Daniels was 28 with one movie behind him, and Nicholson sized him up in a sentence. Plenty of young actors would hear that as a put-down and sulk about it. He heard it as the job description and has been working that way for more than forty years.
I went through 2,562 spec script sales since the ’90s, 38% of deal announcements gave the price. Now it’s 1%.“Bidding war” went from 1% of announcements to 30%.The hyped deals got made at the same rate as the rest.
https://t.co/nwWdsuAUCO
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: https://t.co/Is4zFAQqc6
Cheyenne Jackson has launched the "One Job Away" campaign on Instagram, which spotlights actors on the verge of losing their SAG-AFTRA health insurance if they don't meet the guild's annual minimum of $28,000 in earnings.
• Jackson received "hundreds" of submissions in the less than 24 hours after launching the campaign.
• Last year, Jackson was "one gig short of getting my insurance." He reached out to friend Kathy Bates to see if she could get him any role on "Matlock" because he was just $6,000 away from meeting the guild's minimum to qualify for health insurance.
• “She told me, ‘I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is, I got you a role on “Matlock.” The bad news is, you have five lines and you don’t have a name.’ I was like, ‘Sign me up! No ego amigo here.’ I played no-name detective. I searched a crime scene and I said, ‘Hey, Sergeant, we got some blood over here.’”
• Jackson tells Variety: "The bigger conversation is just the way that residuals and SAG are set up. I make OK money on residuals, but a lot of that residual does not go toward your SAG dues. You’re essentially starting over every year. An actor can make $500,000 one year, but when they don’t make much the next year, the $500,000 doesn’t help with the following year’s health insurance minimum.”
https://t.co/KMP6ncbtZt
Woody Harrelson has done an ad for Exxon.
New Exxon El Nino Commercial
Written by Adam McKay @mr.ghostpanther
Voiced by Woody Harrelson @woodyharrelson
Produced by Yellow Dot Studios
Edited by Max Koepke of @lostplanetpost
Stock Footage licensing by Stalkr
Music licensing APM
Happy birthday to Nancy Cartwright, born on October 25, 1957. The talented voice actress has brought some of television's most memorable animated characters to life.
BITE-SIZED FACT | In addition to voicing Bart Simpson, she provides the voices of Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum and several other characters on "The Simpsons." #80s