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A few months ago, I auditioned for a television show called "Top Gear Australia". I borrowed a camera and tripod and lights, I even got the material professionally edited. I sent it in to the producers and waited. . . and waited . . . and waited.
I didn't get the job of presenter, which left me with the same sad, lack of joy that the first drive in a VW leaves you with. Tonight I saw the show for the first time. I am soooo glad I didn't get the job. The audition details they sent me specified that the producers weren't looking for people who were copies of the original english guys who invented the show; they wanted orignal, aussie blokes with their own personalities.
What they got is three aussies who sound (apart from the accents) just like the three english blokes they're imitating. The show is a virtual carbon copy of the original, with three guys who's intonations and gestures are almost exactly the same as the three other guys in the UK.
So glad I didn't get that show.
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Battle of Algiers
Stardust Memories (2nd viewing)
El Crimen Ferpecto
Sin City
Before Sunset (2004)
Transporteur II, Le (2005)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Color of Lies
Two Mrs. Carrolls
Place in the Sun
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Watch on the Rhine (Bette Davis)
Blade Runner
Nosferatu (the original 1922)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Meet John Doe (Frank Capra)
Équipier, L' (2004)
Libeled Lady
Capote
My favorites were actually Meet John Doe and Libeled Lady. I watched Libeled Lady last night and was impressed at the comedy and caliber of the performances. Meet John Doe is a really underrated Frank Capra film. Because of the ending. It is not a flashy, happy ending, but on the flipside, I find it puzzling that it is not more highly regarded.
Another highlight was Place in the Sun... a film where things get out of control (in the plot! that's good), and it is well done.
I'm looking at the list and I have to say I don't really have a least favorite. They all were pretty good. There are certain things I liked about Sin City, but it was a little too much violence-wise and the way they portrayed women. However, I did like the Bruce Willis character and the "Nancy" character (when she was a little girl). I was a little disappointed by Blade Runner, I will admit. Even though Harrison Ford was kind of hot back then, and the beginning was strong, I kind of lost interest in the film.
There was also an embarrassing moment in The Two Mrs. Carrolls when Humphrey Bogart makes a play on a phrase that he used in Casablanca which was released just a handful of years before.
Other than that, great movies this month!
Added on 11/9/05: My list was incomplete and I forgot to add Capote. Well, I just did and Mr. Hoffman did a great job!
The great thing about being an actress in NY is that there are always so many auditions. The rough thing is that there are always so many auditions.
Whenever I'm not working and not about to die (for one reason or another), I check the AEA website and go to whatever's going that day. Actually, for about a month now, I plan it all out ahead on Sunday--which is also my day for sending gratuitous postcards--on a big piece of printer paper.
I have been doing the regular audition circuit for about. . .four or five months.
Free time? What's that? Free time, unless it's the wee hours of the morning or I've already been to the auditions that day, is WORK time.
People do quit. People move back to Kansas. People become lifer-waiters and make plenty of money and don't spend it all on postage and audition hoohah. People go to grad school and become something else.
Why do I hang on? Well, callbacks keep coming, and that makes me feel like I'm getting somewhere. The Equity monitors all know me now. Some of the casting directors are showing a flicker or recognition in their eyes.
I guess I haven't lost hope yet. BUT I GET WHY PEOPLE DO.
When you walk out of your last audition of the day, even if the first two were business as usual, and you get the wrong look from the casting director. . .well, it's no way to live. Sitting in a waiting room all day on my off-days is no way to live. Taking good care of yourself ALL THE TIME so you don't chip the paint, so to speak, or wreck your voice or figure or face, when you are sans specialists like chefs and trainers and such is. . .well. . .that's probably how one ought to live, but I'm sick of it!! I'd like to not feel guilty about throwing my voice out at a party or sleeping through possible auditions because I had a night of beautiful insomnia.
Oh, this is so boring and I am spoiled. Rant over. I just need more sleep. Nothing insurmountable here. I'd better go to bed; two auditions tomorrow.
I'm just going to keep on trucking until the law of averages tips the scale in my favor. I mean, I'm reasonably talented; talented enough for practical purposes, certainly, so there must be a finite number of auditions I can go to before ACCIDENTALLY landing a role. Right? Or something? I mean, the number might be in the 10,000's, but the finite-ness is encouraging.
.1.)Apparently, according to the link at the top of this page, the Dresden Dolls are touring with Panic! At The Disco. Hopefully this doesn't frighten away the Dresden Dolls's fans.
.2.)Real people outside of the porn and pervert world, when trying to impress you, really do ask if you'd like to see their webcam. Don't do it.
.3.)Someone I got rather close to a couple weeks ago didn't talk to me for all of those two weeks. Then, the first and only thing they say to me is, "The next time you're in town, I'll put your stuff in the mailbox. I just need a heads up."
.4.)I just about lliterally ran into a different ex with whom I really don't get along that same night. Last night, actually.
.5.)The people who fall in love with me faster than I can imagine always break my heart.
.6.)My lens is broken, and I'm going to see the Starlight Mints this Friday in Denton. My camera is really sad.
.7.)I just watched a memorial video for a girl who was killed. Sadly, the thing that upset me the most about the video was the fact that they left the second "o" out of "too." Hopefully that doesn't make me a bad person...
.8.)I gave two different girls their first kiss last night. Wait... no... I think three.
.9.)I have to audition again for my college theatre department in three or four weeks. And I don't have pieces. I'm afraid to use the pieces I used for the scholarship audition, so I don't know what to do... everything pretty much rides on this.
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