Adhoc Actors

Month: September 2014

  • The TEAM works. No really.

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    Have you ever watched a film or play you enjoyed and spent the next week raving about the leading actor in it? Or basing your choice of entertainment merely on the director whose name is on it? Not a bad rule of thumb to wade through the assortment of media available and see something you…

  • The amazing truth behind “break a leg”

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    Ever had someone wish you luck by saying “break a leg”? Most people think this is rather harsh and imagine the valiant performer struggling though a show nursing fractured limbs on stage. Perhaps this refers to the “show must go on” spirit so many actors have in their blood? Or is it a glib reference to…

  • Hollywood stories!

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    + We found the following wonderful nugget in the Event Organisers update newsletter. Hollywood history gold. Thanks guys. MADAME DUBARRY The story of the doomed courtesan at the Versailles court of Louis XV was an early (1919) black and white silent film of director Ernst Lubitsch which used the excuse of history to give audiences…