What's your acting experience? Have you ever been on tv? In the movies? On stage?

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As a totally unknown actor, surprising I have been on television, I have acted in two movies, and I have performed on stage.

I was an extra in the movie, "The Craft," and an extra in the television movie, "Quarterback Princess."

I once had the male lead in the play, "The Doll's House." And I once played Pappy Yocum in the play "Lil' Abner." (I was a sixteen year old Pappy.)

I also danced and lip synced the song "Treat Her Right" from the movie "The Commitments." I had four back up singers, including my fourteen year old daughter, and we were all dressed up in sixties fashion. We performed this onstage at our town summer festival to help raise money for Hospice. It was a talent show and we won second place.

I know this doesn't add up to a whole lot, but given the chance I'd perform again.

So if you are a Hollywood agent who is reading this, let's do lunch.

Yeh, right. Like that's going to happen.

-- Zoomer--"ALIVE AT FORTY-FIVE!"--http://members.xoom.com/fortyfiver/aliveat45.htm (fortyfiver@yahoo.com), December 29, 1999

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I forgot to add that the summer festival performance was filmed by the local cable company, and they show it on television in reruns each year during the festival.

Hey, I need all the performance credit I can get. It might impress someone like Steven Spielberg someday.

Yeh, right.

-- Zoomer--ALIVE AT FORTY-FIVE!--http://members.xoom.com/fortyfiver/aliveat45.htm (fortyfiver@yahoo.com), December 29, 1999.


(This topic of discussion is connected to an entry I wrote at my website: ALIVE AT FORTY FIVE! GETTING MY KICKS AT FORTY-SIX! The entry is entitled "Zoomer's Big Moment in 'A Quarterback Princess", and is dated December 18,1999.)

-- Zoomer (fortyfiver@yahoo.com), April 17, 2000.

One day I will get a video machine and then I will hire 'Quarterback', i'd do it now if i could. I think that the 'net is a great tool for finding out who all of those extras were/are and what are they doing now. I think that this would be the basis of a great site. Then whenever you hire a movie you can use the site as a running commentary, telling your friends about all of the people in the movie; you could also contact the people like 'the guy in the grocery scene' - zoomer. The best thing about actors like you zoomer is that you are approachable and not stuck up or too busy to answer.

Great stuff! If you anyone would like to discuss it further: www.infocus.to/netguide/network

-- netizen x (netizenx@cyberwizards.com.au), February 28, 2000.


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