Friday afternoon was the much anticipated Level 4/5 audition, and I almost missed it. I had a 12:30 flight and let’s just say due to some poor planning when I arrived I heard “FINAL BOARDING”. This is the second week in a row that I’ve arrived within 20 minutes of my flight’s departure. One of …
Category Archives: The Book
Week 21: Yin & Yang
They say everything has it’s opposite. What goes up, must come down. Well, the opposite of a great “Amigo Friends” Saturday night show, would be the Level 3 class show this afternoon. We had such a great, tight “Amigo” show Saturday with a near capacity audience and then today we just stunk it up for …
Week 20: Eggsellent
Wow. All I can say is wow. I never thought that the first show of “The Amigo Friends” (TAF) would be sold out and that they would be turning people away. If you would have asked me what my prediction would have been for attendance, I would have said a theater half full of our …
Week 19: Turnaround
Saturday morning I had a meeting with casting director Shari Rhodes in the morning, but a camera snafu caused me to have to reschedule for later this week. Shari has done a ton of casting for some big name movies and she’s very active in casting movies still today. Lucky for me I knew how to …
Week 18: American Airlines can eat me
Yeah, I said it — EAT ME. Sometimes, booking 2 weeks in advance is a good thing and allows me to snag a low fare. However, the flip side is booking 2 weeks in advance not knowing that you will be having a 4:30 pm show…..and a 5:55 pm return flight. After several phone calls …
Week 17: Level 3 – film genres and the bar gets set high
I want to start of by saying thank you to everyone for the input and response to last week’s Q & A. I appreciate everyone taking the time to check it out and to send in their thoughts. As I keep getting more questions, I’ll throw them up here. Now, on to week 17… I …
Week 16: Without a net
So, last week my travel was delayed due to the high winds and caused me to stay in LA a day. Well, this week I was delayed again, but only for a hour. I eventually got on the plane…only to get right off 20 minutes later due to “bad fuel lines”. The captain himself stood …
Week 15: I love have to fly and it shows can be a pain
So I discovered last week that there was an interactive even going on where you could hold an actual Oscar statuette. It was running until 5:00 Saturday afternoon and I had decided to catch a 10:30 am standby flight and attend the interactive event with some friends from Second City. So I get up early, …
Week 14: Outrage
Those of you that know me know that I tend to “Forrest Gump” my way into certain situations. For those of you that don’t know me so well, I tend to find myself in the right place at the right time more often than not and it’s has lead to some cool stuff. This week …
Week 13: Thanks, driver
While getting ready to leave yesterday, my driver asked if I wanted her to drive me to the airport and pick me up tonight, but I said no because she has to get up early tomorrow and go to Corpus Christi for work. “But how will I ever get any mentions if I don’t drive …
Week 12: “On the lot” or “25 hours in a day”
Have you ever said to yourself, “Man I wish I had more hours in a day”? Have you ever looked at your watch and realized you’ve been awake for over 24 hours and realized how completely asinine that notion is? That was Saturday for me, but with the caveat that I was working on a …
Week 11: A heart, a bash, a start, and some cash
Two quick notes before I go on: – I’ve setup the site so you can now email and print individual posts from the site. I’m trying to get ahead of the curve even though nobody has yet to request it, and I’m not sure anybody without the last name Bentley reads this stuff. ;) – …
Week 10: Larry King style
Having a driver is one of the finer things in life. Everybody should have one…Is it just me or is “CBS Eye on American” the best in-flight entertainment out there?….Can you name an airline with a better $5 Turkey Chibatta sandwich? I can’t…Knocked out “Who’s Your Caddy” by Sports Illustrated Writer Rick Reilly. If only …
Week 9: Shaking off the rust and waxing nostalgic
The word irony is defined as “an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected”. A practical example of this would be my 5:05 pm flight being delayed until 8:30 pm because of an overheated fan.
8 is Enough
I told you what the title was going to be so no busting my chops…. Level 1 is in the books. When I started this 8 weeks ago I wondered what I had gotten myself into. I still wonder that now, but with a sense of excitement to see where I end up with this …