Contracts frequently get signed without scripts ever being read. Scripts are often in development and funding is dependent on the signing of an actor, or the actors have input into the scriptwriting, or the director is keeping the script under wraps until actual shooting begins. Many/most films don't start with a…

It's a fairly common way to get films made, actually. For example, most people sign on to Woody Allen movies without ever reading the scripts or even knowing the premises of the films (Everyone Says I Love You is a musical, yet none of the actors were told they'd have to sing until production had already begun). Great…

No, you're talking about emotional manipulation (plus careless treatment of his valuable goods).

Effusive over-apologizing in and effort to make it difficult for the other party to actually address the issue or express their own feelings was one of the main reasons I ended one of my last relationships.

I don't know what this article is talking about; when my current partner and I started hooking up, we lost a combined 10 pounds in one three-day weekend.

My experience with casting in west coast regional theatre was similar. Our theater paid living wages (better than most regional theatre on the west coast!), got regular notices, and has had a number of international tours, off-broadway transfers, and awards. We made a point of engaging in colorblind casting, and most…

Broadway doesn't really work that way; in general, a Broadway production is its own corporation, completely independent from the other works & missions of its owners/creators/investors, as opposed to a community or regional theatre that is capable of having a longrange mission.

If your show is representing white-washing, and also has POCs in main roles (despite representing a nearly-entirely-white society), then it makes no sense. If you're representing a white monoculture, and certain odd theatrical conventions re: race within that monoculture, by casting non-POCs you explicitly disrupt…

A good solution to that problem is to date women who like sex, and to make sure that you're good at sex.

Besides what everyone else is saying here about the subscription v. ad sales model in television, it's also worth mentioning that in terms of purchasing power and cultural influence, a major network viewer is way less important than an HBO viewer.

I didn't expect such contrition, and I apologize for piling on elsewhere in these comments.

I had a toxic friend who publicly committed me in numerous press releases to an unpaid project that required 120+ hours of work (I'd never signed on for it) and then dealt with me abusively the whole time.

You're disappointed in her for taking the recommendation of the music director? Human voices don't operate correctly outdoors in the middle of winter, and the event is a contrived piece of theatre staged in a space that is not conducive to quality live performance, which is why performers either get dissed for giving…

My girlfriend does music PR and got to spend a whole afternoon with Beyonce and Solange. Apparently they're both awesome to chill with.

Classical musicians are underpaid? Union symphony players in major cities earn six figures. Even third-tier makes 30-50k, which in a city like Buffalo goes a long way. And a symphony job is essentially a part-time gig, meaning that after collecting six figures, they still have the chamber circuit, union recording…

How dare they hire an extremely prominent, respected, and famous artist who represents America's cultural influence (I believe they call these people who get famous for creating works of culture "celebrities") to sing at a major event, instead of some no-name band singer.

It's not about singing live. It's about singing live in extremely cold weather in a space that's not acoustically designed for a performance that'll be scrutinized in broadcast and recording.

From wikipedia: "On 10 February 2006, Pavarotti sang "Nessun Dorma" at the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony [...] Leone Magiera, who directed the performance, revealed in his 2008 memoirs, Pavarotti Visto da Vicino, that the performance was prerecorded weeks earlier.[22] "The orchestra pretended to play for the…

My company's yelp page doesn't have a single review displayed (they're all filtered), because they decided it was suspicious that every single customer review was positive. We wrote a fake negative review and it almost immediately popped up on the page. They're a total scam.

Don't do it, bro! The most musically interesting, daring stuff of the past few years has come out of top 40 (Miley Cyrus' "Start All Over" has some modal mixtures that would put Brian Wilson to shame, and Beyonce's album 4 is an extravaganza of sounds & surprises for any music geek), while the most prominent indie…