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So - trained actors not needed any more. Sad, for all of us, who have worked and trained so hard to give the audiences our best,

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There really is no fashion now - anything goes and celebrities seem forced to wear something closer to fancy dress than anything we might call fashion. Style, elegance - both sexy in my book are out of the window for the...

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Independent film making is hard. And it is getting harder, however the rewards and opportunities can make it well worth while, but you have to have grit and staying power to keep going. The traditional ways of watching ...

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Here's a new blog..reminiscing abou a play I was in. The images are generated by Chat GPT. I decided to try it out and like it. My new AI assistant is friendly, chatty and seems to like what I do! Fun so far. He/ it ? li...

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The Ides of March came along last week...the day of disasters. Actually it was remembered for the day that Julius Caesar was assassinated and a few other historic disasters. Caesar is best remembered for his dictatorshi...

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Big Brother, Technology and Artificial Intelligence

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And here we are friends, still here, still enjoying the journey, the great ups and the downs that give us a moment to think, re-think and keep going.

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Phew… we made through another year, a bit hair-raising, unnerving, Wars, Disasters, Scandals, Tragedies all hyped up by the media of course. Including my end of media, entertainment. We seem to have slightly less interes...

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A poem for you, written by American Poet - Sara Teasdale

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A couple of weeks ago I was watching a television interview talking about a charity- warchild.org.uk. I was moved and donated.

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Many moons ago, for a short while, I lived in Las Vegas,, the tackiest, but strangely seductive city in America. Sometimes known as Sin City. My husband was flying for one those companies, which flew tourists out and ove...

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A couple of years ago, I was invited by Irish Producer/ Director Brian O'Flaherty to appear in a documentary about Peter O'Toole made for Sky Arts. Needless to say I jumped at the chance to be in the film - Peter being\no...

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I love listening to friends in the business talking about it -the chatter, the differing opinions, hopes and dreams and hopes dashed, disappointment, elation. The stamina needed. The film industry is a real mixture of su...

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Much of our time as actors is spent WAITING. Waiting for a call from our agent, a casting director, a friend who has a job and \" there could be a part for you\" and above all the welcome call saying \" you got the part!\"....

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In the early 1960's I appeared in a show called DANGER MAN, known in the US as SECRET AGENT, the episode was called \"A Date with Doris\". It was an excellent part with a very good script, playing opposite the star of the...

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Being an actor requires a lot of patience. There is a ton of competition for very few roles and a lot of waiting around for a job. Sometimes the best solution is to do it yourself.

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ANDY is a feature length film developed from a short film, I wrote and produced in 2018, This is an AI story. Anne a lonely woman, living a chaotic life, gets an Android carer to help. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad ...

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\"I understand that this is a risk-averse industry. I get it. But $200 million movies are also a risk, and it doesn't always work out. But you take the risk anyway. Instead of making one $200 million movie, make twenty $1...

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I would like to introduce the crowd funding link we have set up to help with the cost of the film, if you would like to join us and be part of the journey, we would love to have you.

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ANDY - a new feature film starts production, next month ! I wrote this story and appeared in the short film a few years ago ...and now the story continues and the topic is hot ....one in the news every day. Here's th...

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Been busy lately, getting ready to start a new film in March with working partner Jason Farries, actor and director. I wrote and produced a short film \"ANDY\"a few years ago, about AI. Not so much the hot topic it is ...

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Actor or the real person? The business has changed so much, since I started. When I first went to RADA, we were taught the tools to be an actor. One of those tools, apart from voice and movement, was technique. T...

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Sometimes, I write short stories. I enjoy writing them and sometimes I make short films from them.

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in 2018 I wrote, produced and (of course) appeared in a short film ABOUT ANDY. The film is about AI in our ordinary world. It was successful, people liked it, asked \" what happens next?\" - and I went on to develop a f...

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Saturday was a good day, spent in Christchurch a beautiul little town, on the South Coast of England. I made an appearance at The Talking Pictiures TV Channel Film Festival in a lovely refurbished cinema venue - The Reg...

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So you want to be an actor and why not, it does seem pretty easy these days.

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Paramount is looking to raise prices of Paramount+ with Showtime in the next 2 years

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I am not sure about that....however, I did build this website myself. With the advent of AI, some things are much easier for an amateur like me! My former site was getting far too complicated and tech heavy for me to ...

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