Happy Birthday: Brittany Snow

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Brittany Snow.jpgBrittany Snow

Born: March 9, 1986 in Tampa, Florida, USA

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on Guiding Light (1952).

[on playing a prostitute in Finding Amanda (2008)] There are things in her that I think everyone can relate to. After I play every character, I always feel a little different. I’ve experienced something that’s not my life. It’s never easy. But you want to do these challenging things all the time.

 

 

 

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Happy Birthday: Matthew Gray Gubler

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Matthew Gray Gubler.jpgMatthew Gray Gubler

Born: March 9, 1980 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

I just love entertaining. I will do anything – stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts – I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I’ll, like, die. So throughout my life I’ve always tried to remain busy, and I sort of know no other way. I think if my heart rate slowed it would affect my constitution, strangely. I’ve been trained to do that.

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I’m serious! In ‘Bambi,’ the mother dies, but you don’t see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and…

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Happy Birthday: Juliette Binoche

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Juliette Binoche.jpgJuliette Binoche

Born: March 9, 1964 in Paris, France

“Going to South Africa (Country of My Skull (2004)) has changed me utterly. I have seen and heard about acts of cruelty and hatred which are hard to comprehend. But I’ve also seen peace and tranquility like nowhere else on earth”.

My real excitement comes when a movie transforms me. When you love the movie you’ve played in, you can make that bridge back to your own life.
[on working with a secret agent for A Few Days in September (2006)] Of course he could not reveal everything to me, but he said a lot. Some things I forgot because it was just too much. Certain things I was very amazed by and when I told people close to me about them they just wouldn’t believe it. Everything in there is true.

The only way for me to stay young is…

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Happy Birthday: Linda Fiorentino

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Linda Fiorentino.jpgLinda Fiorentino

Born: March 9, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

The thing that’s always bothered me is that, even if you have a strong female character, invariably in the third act she has to say something like, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you,” or she has to become really vulnerable and wimpy and get her comeuppance. Even in something like Thelma & Louise (1991), where you have these two very strong characters, they have to die in the end. What’s so special about The Last Seduction (1994) is that none of that happens. Had a Hollywood studio made that film instead of an independent, it would have been very different. She definitely wouldn’t have gotten away with what she does get away with.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.
I go to bed with men, not boys.

All I’m thinking about today is cleaning…

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Happy Birthday: Joseph Gilgun

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Born: March 9, 1984 in Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK

Joseph Gilgun was born on March 9, 1984 in Chorley, Lancashire, England. He is an actor, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), This Is England (2006) and Lockout (2012).

 

 

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Happy Birthday: Kerr Smith

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Kerr Smith.jpgKerr Smith

Born: March 9, 1972 in Exton, Pennsylvania, USA

His kiss with Adam Kaufman in episode #323 (“True Love”) of Dawson’s Creek (1998) was the first ever gay male kiss on prime time television.

Originally auditioned for the part of “Leo” in the television series

Charmed (1998) along with Julian McMahon (Cole) and Ted King (Andy) but lost out to Brian Krause.

Kerr own’s the Venice Beach Beer Company.

 

 

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Happy Birthday: Rupert Evans

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Rupert Evans.jpgRupert Evans

Born: March 9, 1976 in UK

Our work, particularly in film and television, has become more and more last minute, so technology is vital. It has made us much more flexible. I’ve reduced my paper output massively by reading scripts on iPad.

Researching roles, especially historical ones, is a lot easier online. I’ve just done Lucan on ITV, so spent a lot of time surfing the web, reading up on my character, painter Dominick Elwes. Auditioning over Skype is becoming a lot more common too. My latest job was Rogue, an American cop drama with T’handie Newton’, and I had to do a Skype meeting with the showrunner for that.

On his favorite computer game: I got addicted to Tiger Woods Golf. I’d be up till 3am every night and it ruined my life, so I had to go cold turkey and give them up. But I do…

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Happy Birthday: Jean-Marc Vallée

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Jean-Marc Vallée.jpgJean-Marc Vallée

Born: March 9, 1963 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

I never knew I was going to make two TV series back to back, Big Little Lies (2017) and Sharp Objects (2017). We’re not treating them like TV series, I’m just making another feature film but just longer… [2016]
[on Demolition (2015)] A lot of the stuff was shot like a documentary.

We’re just observing, capturing, trying not to interfere. Of course were are staging, we have a script and making a fiction film. Here’s this sandbox, play in it and we’re going to watch you play in it and not try to interfere so it looks real. The goal is not to put style and fancy camera moves and colors above substance, it’s all about story, characters, emotion and looking real. We weren’t looking for what’s the tone is. We went, “Let’s try and be real and we’ll find…

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Happy Birthday: Raul Julia (1940–1994)

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Raul Julia (1940–1994).jpgRaul Julia (1940–1994)

Born: March 9, 1940 in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Died: October 24, 1994 (age 54) in Manhasset, New York, USA

What’s behind me is not important!

I knew there was something special about the theatre for me. Something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

There are 38,000 people dying of hunger each day and most are children. And, being a celebrity, I communicate about it as much as I can.

 

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TV SPEC Reading of MODERN FAMILY “Relax, I Got This” by Edward Pronley

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Watch the January 2017 Winning TV SPEC Screenplay Reading.

Best Scene from the screenplay MODERN FAMILY Screenplay
Written by Edward Pronley

CAST LIST:

NARRATOR – Sean Ballantyne
CLAIRE – Val Cole
MITCHELL/LUKE – Nick Wicht
GLORIA/ALEX – Shannon McNally
HALEY/LILY – Catherine D’Angelo
PHIL – David Straus
CAMERON/JAY – Charles Gordon

SYNOPSIS:

Genre: Comedy, Family

After refusing to fulfill Claire’s request to hire tree trimmers, Phil, with Luke’s help, takes matters into his own hands; Claire and Mitchell attempt to have a relaxing getaway; Gloria has problems trusting the Dunphys.


How does this screenplay fit into the context of this show?

When the idea for this story came to me, I knew it would be able to fit in nicely with the rest of the series. The conflict that arises from the three separate storylines converge in a way that I have definitely witnessed on the show before.

How would…

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