Where does Passion Live?

Someone was recently telling me how musical theatre is all cheesy and ridiculous, and they can't really believe when people break into song.

I decided that this person had never been exposed to the real deal.

Of course a lot of it is cheese-ball hysterics and love platitude rhymes, but some of it- the REAL DEAL of it- is soul-filling love, heart-wrenching sadness, and spiritually-enlarging PASSION.

Yes, this is the cliche clip to pick but how can you watch this and not know how she feels?

1982 Tony Awards: Jennifer Holliday sings "And I'm Telling You" Dreamgirls - YouTube: ""

Maybe if you've never felt like this you have no idea what's happening here.

Maybe you just see someone singing LOUD and yelling for a paying audience, but when you KNOW what she's singing about, you FEEL IT.

Even more, when you are a performer, you WANT to get into a state like this, you WANT to take the emotions, and bring them forward so that someone on the other side of the 4th wall feels it.

The music and lyrics are NOT ENOUGH without the performer.

Do YOU do anything with this much passion?
Could you INSPIRE that much passion in someone else?
Could you EXPRESS this much passion in something or someone?

I don't know about you, but this brought me to tears, and that was after watching 4 different versions of it BEFORE I chose to write this.

I hope something brings you to tears today, and even better, that you bring them to someone else!

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The Actor Story That Made Me Cry While Telling It

Yes, I am crying over an Actor Story... more specifically, a STAR TREK ACTOR Story.
Maybe it's just my hormones, but I saw a video that really touched me, and I knew it was going viral, but I happened to know a few back story points that I knew a lot of people didn't know...

I just told you the whole story, but in case you want to see the videos themselves, which are super-inspiring and passionate:

This is the Viral Whoopi Goldberg video that got me started:


And here's a video of Nichelle Nichols talking about her encounter with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
This video will put YOUR ENTIRE LIFE into perspective by the time it's over:


Nichelle Nichols' Encounter With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

C'Mon, after you hear all of THAT, how can you NOT keep going?

When Love Makes You Sad

Has your love for something ever made you sad?

Maybe I missed the really inspirational part of this, but the line about the sadness of love hit me really hard.
Lately I've been thinking about that the more I love something, the more obvious it is that it will end in some fashion, because everything does...

Some people will choose therefore to not love, so it doesn't hgurt as much. That's definitely one
way to avoid the pain...



Existential Bummer - YouTube:

But you already know that I'm going to tell you to "Love Anyway", and that "It's better to have
loved and lost, than to not have loved at all", but that's actually not a way to avoid the pain, is it?

What if instead, we challenged ourselves to love more, and love longer, and love deeper, only because we know that the pain will be SO much stronger, and we can CHOOSE to deepen the pain even more?

What if you chose to enjoy the pain of loss because it meant you loved deeply?

What if you could be PROUD of yourself for the pain you feel because you knew it meant you loved as much as you could?

Wouldn't THAT be a worthy way to be sad?

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Amazon has it's own web series, where's yours?

Amazon.com prime is getting into the TV business!

Although, it's not really the TV business, is it?
They are creating their own web series to compete with NETFLIX, HBO and SHOWTIME's model.

Maybe it's time for Entreperformers like yourself to get on it, and create your own series?
Whaddya say?
Wanna cast me?


Entreperformers aren't WAITING for a break, WAITING to be discovered, or Waiting Tables! They are making it happen, and doing what they want, when they want to.


If you'd like to become an Entreperformer, join us, and create your own series- maybe you'll be the next series on Amazon!

Bryan Cranston Makes Your Day In This "Breaking Bad" Alternate Ending

Well, he did it.

When you're big enough, you can do whatever you want, and Bryan Cranston, thanks to his huge success as Walter White from Breaking Bad is big enough.

Right now.

He hired his old co-star from Malcolm in The Middle, Jane Kaczmarek to do a little scene with him, waking up as if he'd dreamt that Breaking Bad was just a dream.

The fans wanted it, and he delivered:

Breaking Bad Season 5 Alternate Ending

So, the question is, when you STOP WAITING, and get on with it, what will YOU do with your free time?

Will you be an artist, or will you hang out a lot?
Me? I do both, I guess!

The Fool-Proof Way To Get Your Own TV Show

If you're a talented artist, and are working hard on your craft, I want you to be offended by this.

If you're an artist, or an actor, and trying to have someone recognize your talent and hard work..

Forget about it.

Just go smoke crack, and you too can have your own TV show!

The Crack Smoking Mayor of Toronto, Mayor Ford is getting his own TV show, and you aren't.

So keep working on that Shakespeare monologue, and maybe the cameras will come watch you when Mayor Ford smokes Crack before seeing you perform in the alley behind where he SMOKES CRACK.

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Why Your Marathon Is Stealing Your Sexy

I know, I know, a Shocking title. But you won't read this unless I write it this way.

Too often people tell me that want to lose weight, so they get on the treadmill for two hours a day and other long-time non-effective strategies.

Muscle is sexy, and Marathoners don't have any. They look skinny, but flabby and UNsexy:

Whose Body would YOU rather have?

In my book "Half Assed Health", I talk about doing sprints instead, but people want to fight with me over it all the time. Well, maybe they won't fight with the research:

"One group performed four to six 30-second "sprints" while the other group did cardio for 30 to 60 minutes. The results were nothing short of amazing. Despite exercising for a fraction of the time, those in the sprint category burned more than twice as much body fat."

Here's where the article lives- On HUFFINGTON POST where a fan of my book sent it to me.