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Actors must take meetings to advance their careers. Seeking representation, management, auditions, or work in specific projects, they meet with agents, managers, producers, and casting directors. However, these important meetings are often unsuccessful because the actors present themselves inadequately. Lacking self-awareness and authenticity, actors frequently conduct themselves as victims or manipulators, which leads to their being seen as u...

Designed for anyone who wants to build a stand-up comedy career, this book includes advice and information on all aspects of stand-up and also features a large section of interviews with a number of top comedians, including: Louie Anderson, Roseanne, George Wallace and Paul Reiser.

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Charlie Haden (1937-2014) was the rare sort of musician who transcended easy categorizationother than to say that his uniquely elegant and eloquent bass playing, with its readily recognizable sound, defined a certain pinnacle of musical communication in beau- tiful, spontaneous, and intensely emotional ways. Throughout his career, he worked with and influenced many of the most interesting musicians of the second half of the twentieth century, ...

Not Quite a Memoir is a unique collection of pieces about the many filmmakers and writers from around the globe?Europe, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East?who populate Judy Stone's world. In these articles, we clearly hear their voices as they talk art, politics, and culture. We get to see past the cinema screens and past the pages of books and hear lively conversations about personal freedoms, political change, nationalism, religion, women i...

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Robert Wise, winner of multiple Academy Awards, is one of America's most celebrated directors. Wise's films include Curse of the Cat People, Blood on the Moon, The Set-Up, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Executive Suite, Somebody Up There Likes Me, I Want to Live!, West Side Story, The Sound of Music and Star Trek -- The Motion Picture. Each of Wise's films is presented here with photos, a complete cast and credits, a story synopsis and Robert ...

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In this collection of recent conversations, 18 of this generation's most creative filmmakers discuss their creative visions, their careers and the state of today's film industry.Neil Jordan (The Crying Game, Mona Lisa, The Butcher Boy)Michael Radford (Il Postino, 1984, White Mischief)Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion, The Real Blond)Nicholas Hytner (The Madness of King George, The Object of My Affection)Atom Egoyan (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter)...

This book not only reveals a great deal of inside information on distributor strategies and their marketing expenditures, but does so in a highly entertaining fashion. It is destined to be required reading in Hollywood executive suites as well as a primer in film and business schools for many years to come". -- Mark Litwak, author of Dealmaking in the Film and Television Industry and Reel PowerMovie Marketing makes complex marketing issues sim...

In any creative endeavor, a knowledge of craft by itself, no matter how sound or thorough, is simply not sufficient to allow for the creation and growth of truly original work. While craft may provide structural tools, it does not address the most basic and universal element of all artistic work -- the creative process.Designed not just to awaken creativity but to teach the writer the process of being a creative thinker within the context of s...

This unique magnum opus -- 640 pages and 1, 500 illustrations -- of the visual narrative techniques that form the "language of filmmaking has found an avid audience among student filmmakers everywhere. This "language" is basic to the very positioning and moving of players and cameras, as well as the sequencing and pacing of images. It does not date as new technologies alter the means of capturing images on film and tape. Basic to the very scri...