Actors

Consider these two bits of information. #1. If you stop moving your head around, you’ll be a movie star’. Director, Steven Spielberg, speaking to actor George Clooney on the set of [...]

Why is Jon Hamm (Don Draper of the Mad Men series) such a captivating speaker and presenter? Below is my analysis  – of first 14 seconds of a video clip of Hamm’s performance in The [...]

‘ . . . have talked about how important it is as a writer to be able to take your funny idea, boil it down to the essentials, and convey it in a funny and timely manner to a room. You might [...]

In the first Obama/Romney debate, leaving aside who won the battle of the ideas – here are my thoughts on who won the battle of the body language, speech and words – consistent with that of [...]

In the 1920’s, legendary producer and director George M Cohan was coaching a young Spencer Tracy (Tracy went on to win two Oscars and had nine Academy Award nominations) in the rehearsal of one [...]

“The most important thing about an actor was what he called ‘attitude. . . “. Howard Hawks meant the actor’s physical attitude, his bodily carriage – how he walks and how he moves.”