Often you hear speakers say, ‘Do the thing that scares you.” This of course can be misinterpreted to mean, “Do something that might permanently damage you, for the sake of the thrill.” Not great advice. [...]
Every year around this time, if I am in my hometown, I begin to notice something happening to me. I begin to want to hibernate. Not exactly hibernate. I don’t really want to sleep. I [...]
Tamra Meskimen loves acting and loves actors. That sentence could describe a lot of people, I know… But Tamra Meskimen REALLY loves actors. And she demonstrates that dedication every day, as the boots-on-the-ground presence at [...]
It’s interesting that we have entered into a sort of “Golden Age” of help. If you are looking for help with your kids, your business, getting a book published, learning to tie a bow tie, [...]
Of all the things the world needs right now, another label is probably not it. Yet, there is a term missing from our language that would be useful. We currently have the noun, “Bigot”, meaning [...]
I just took a short tally, and after 30-odd years of being a professional myself, I’ve personally worked with about ten Academy Award winning actors. The first was the great Paul Newman, with whom I [...]
I recently received an inquiry from a young protege (I guess you’d call him that, anyway, he was interested in something I had to say about it) about voice and impressions that I thought I’d [...]
Something happens to me sometimes when I am drawing or painting; I have a realization about acting. They are related activities, of course, just very different kinds of art. Painting and drawing are more or [...]
My old friend, actor/screenwriter Jim Ritz used to have an expression when speaking of celebrities that were famous not due to talent, but to other circumstances; they were members of the “Hall of Luck”. Real [...]
Meskimen's Law is a thing. I discovered it by accident years ago– it was on one of those daily tear off calendar pads, with a quote for the day, and there it was: Meskimen’s Law. [...]