tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15431078063312604952009-03-01T07:09:09.606-08:00Giles Bowkettnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543107806331260495.post-15353235186391439442007-12-09T21:58:00.000-08:002007-12-09T21:43:14.358-08:00Episode 2 is part 2 of the interview with Colleen Wainwright, except owing to a mixup, Episode 1 actually featured part 2 of the interview, so ep 2 really features part 1.<br /><br />Also, some opinion on how digital downloads may in fact be a really powerful thing for writers, a way to empower independent productions, based on the example of Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick's new series <i>Quarterlife</i>, and more specifically, based on <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-herskovitz7nov07,1,6072340.story" title="Are the corporate suits ruining TV?">an awesome piece Mr. Herskovitz wrote for the <i>LA Times</i> about it</a>. (Full disclosure: I'm currently working for the LA Times.)<br /><br />Anyway, after I recorded the podcast, a ton of links showed up on the WGA strike blog <a href="http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/" title="United Hollywood">United Hollywood</a>, all from <a href="http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/12/links.html" title="United Hollywood: Links to Info on Numbers, Opinions, New Business Models and the Reality that No One Owns the Internet">people better-informed than me who seemed to think the same thing</a>. It's always cool when that happens.<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /><br /><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/hollywood_grit/Hollywood%20Grit%20Episode%202%20-%20Colleen%20Wainwright%20part%202.m4a">Download the podcast for insight and experience from Colleen, a former working actor, and some random thoughts of my own</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1543107806331260495-1535323518639143944?l=hollywoodgrit.blogspot.com'/></div>Giles Bowkettnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543107806331260495.post-32268601467630512052007-11-10T14:32:00.000-08:002007-11-11T15:17:52.878-08:00<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/hollywood_grit/colleen_email.jpg"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.communicatrix.com/lacasting-articles">Colleen Wainright, the Communicatrix</a>, gives Hollywood Grit an interview on her experiences as a working actor, especially <a href="http://www.lacasting.com/frontend/newsletter/news_home_200702.asp?ARTICLE=article2">the contrarian advice in this awesome column she wrote for lacasting.com</a>:<br /><br /><i>Work on making yourself the actor that has agents chasing you, rather than the other way around...your hire-ability gets you work, not your agent...break out of that mentality of waiting for your break to come to you. But the thing is, there’s no one break. It’s mainly a myth, and when it’s not, it’s never the thing you predicted it would be.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/hollywood_grit/Hollywood%20Grit%2001%20-%20Colleen%20Wainwright.m4a">Download the podcast for some provocative thinking from somebody who's done it (part 1 of 2)</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1543107806331260495-3226860146763051205?l=hollywoodgrit.blogspot.com'/></div>Giles Bowkettnoreply@blogger.com0