I know by now (2nd week of 2011) you are probably wondering, “Where’s all that new content she’s been hyping on the Facebook page and on Twitter?” I know, I know… but it’s coming! I’ve interviewed some great entertainment industry professionals – with many more to come. I’ve got some fantastic entertainment career advice in the works. [...]
Read More →Up until recently, if you wanted to be in the entertainment industry, you pretty much had to be in one of a few places. There was Los Angeles, of course, and New York, for news and indie film, and London and the other hubs of the overseas industry. You would pack up all your worldly [...]
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As you know, here at YII, we LOVE getting the inside story on successful professionals in the biz, as well as finding out about great resources we can all use. In this case, we’re getting both! Sarah Sido and Claire Winters are dedicated working L.A.-based actors who have taken their own “lessons from the trenches” and the expertise [...]
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Today’s profile addresses a question I get A LOT from readers of YII and other aspiring entertainment pros. It goes something like this, “I am a midcareer professional outside the entertainment industry but I still harbor dreams of being in the biz. Is it too late for me?” Paige McCoy Smith might’ve had the same [...]
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Jason Schwartzman is an actor who currently stars in the HBO series, “Bored to Death.” He was interviewed on the best radio show in the history of the planet (IMHO), Fresh Air with Terry Gross, earlier this week. I got a chance to listen to the podcast of it this morning and I must say, [...]
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The woman behind the “Ali on the Air” blog, Ali MacLean, is an award-winning writer, actor, filmmaker and on-air radio personality. A classically-trained actress, she has a degree from Miami University of Ohio, and studied at the La Jolla Playhouse under Tony Award-winning director Des McAnuff and then at the Groundlings Theatre, in their famous [...]
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We here at YII HQ have been fans of “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross for many years. But it was a special treat to find the iPod loaded up with an interview of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong. The description provided indicated that they would talk about the award-winning album, “American Idiot”‘s transformation into a [...]
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It’s a tough time for the music business. Sales are down, largely a result of digital music sharing, the devaluation of music in its digital form, and the return to “singles” as the dominant format (as opposed to albums). But a few artists manage to thrive even in this challenging climate, including Cordozar Calvin Broadus and [...]
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And Here’s the Kicker by Mike Sacks is a deeply entertaining and enjoyable book. So deeply entertaining and enjoyable, in fact, that you seldom pause to realize how much you are learning about the delicate art of creating comedy. You are hearing stories about how many times the makers of BORAT got stopped by the police [...]
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Say what you will… She’s sometimes abrasive, sometimes obscene, and sometimes downright mean, but comedienne Kathy Griffin has made a well-above-D list entertainment career out of billing herself as stuck on the D-list. But what does Kathy Griffith have to teach us about being successful in entertainment? As luck would have it, not only do [...]
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