All articles from: February, 2012

List of 84th Academy Award winners “The Artist” earns best picture, lead actor

The Oscars have come and gone.  Here are a list of the 84th Annual Academy Award winners announced Sunday: 1. Best Picture: “The Artist.” 2. Actor: Jean Dujardin, “The Artist.” 3. Actress: Meryl Streep, “The Iron Lady.” 4. Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, “Beginners.” 5. Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, “The Help.” 6. Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, “The [...]

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Talking Commercials with Barry Shapiro, Casting Director, Herman & Lipson Casting

On-camera commercials are always changing in style.  What’s fresh and new one year is outdated the next.  Today we’re speaking with casting director Barry Shapiro on what he sees are trends in commercials and some of his pet peeves on auditioning for them. “The trends I see today in on-camera commercials are less copy, more [...]

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New NY Agencies and updates

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Some updates for those looking for legit and commercial representation. Funny Face Today has just opened an on-camera division for film, TV and commercials called FFTV.  Marion Falk who was previously at Frontier Booking International for 7 years is heading the new office. Christopher Freer has recently left Clear Talent and has opened up CMF [...]

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