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Meet the Vancouver acting school churning out on-screen success stories
“We are proudly Canadian and that comes through our approach, where everyone is welcome,” says acting coach Julian LeBlanc
TIFF 2013: Long walk to Oscar
Movies on Mandela, slavery and Hendrix head to Toronto’s film festival. Will awards glory follow?
Steve Coogan: British comedy’s secret weapon
He inspired Ricky Gervais, now he’s waiting for his close-up
James Cromwell and the house that love tried to build
A veteran character actor has his day in a tale of a Maritimer crushed by city hall
You can stay in Hollywood—just act your age
Aging movie stars are in no rush to give up the spotlight, and a good thing for studios, too.
I’m besotted with Claire Danes’ Carrie
‘Homeland’ offers another damaged-person role to the former star of ‘My So-Called Life’
Movin’ On Down
Rick Porter at Zap2it writes about the relative lack of minority characters (again) on the 2009-10 schedule. He does so by looking at the percentage of lead actors who are minorities but the problem with current TV is not just a matter of percentages (which aren’t really that disproportionate). As Mo Ryan and others have pointed out, the cancellation of The Game and, more sadly, Everybody Hates Chris leaves TV almost devoid of shows that focus on African-American characters. The problem is not that TV isn’t colour-blind, but that it’s too colour-blind these days. The networks had many shows about black characters, particularly comedies, in the ’80s and ’90s — The Jeffersons, The Cosby Show, Fresh Prince, Family Matters, to name only some of the big hits. And though these shows started to disappear from the major networks in the late ’90s, the WB (Sister Sister, The Wayans Brothers) and especially UPN filled the gap. Now UPN is gone, all its shows are gone, and black shows are pretty much gone.
If Mrs. Kotter Doesn’t Want An Actors’ Strike, Who Can Argue?
It’s Not Cricket To Picket, Not Cricket
According to Nikki Finke, the Screen Actors’ Guild strike authorization vote will take place in January (75% required to pass) and the results will be in on January 23.