Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmwho cares70 posts in thread
Star Power - Cancelled
Tue, 19 June 2007, 05:13 pmHello everyone
I am very disappointed to have to inform everyone that Star Power has been cancelled.
This is due to the lack of entrants in the competition for this year. We are so very disappointed as we had the support of such amazing groups that would have offered training and workshops and opportunities for the youth of WA.
I must say that when I kept receiving emails asking how people could get the auditions without having to do the training, I started to wonder at the youth of WA.
I want to stress to everyone now that all entrants will be receiving their entry money back in the next week.
( For those narrow minded and petty people who thought that Star Power was trying to rip people off and went to the amazing lengths of having us investigated, well, the investigation found nothing, and you simply made us realise how many people out there don't understand that there really are people who are prepared to work for no financial reward at all in order to help others. The cancellation of the competition has cost us money.)
It seems that the youth of WA are not interested in training and workshops and opportunities . It seems that the youth of WA want to have the rewards without the work. That is a very sad generalisation I know and I am very sorry for the people who did enter. We simply couldn't make it work on those numbers.
I thank everyone at the ITA for their support , I thank the people who were helping us, I thank the entrants and I thank the people who saw this competition for what it was and wanted to do all they could to help. I am sorry that we couldn't make it happen.
Kerri
Disquisition. Yay.
Wed, 20 June 2007, 01:19 pmWalter Plinge
>You have a very bleak outlook on the life of an actor.
Meh.
1) No self-respecting actor would be seen dead on a soapie.
>Many current High Profile Actors started off in 'soapies'. >It gave them their 'big-break'. Any intelligent actor would >realize that any exposure is good exposure.
I agree. I agree that they had no self-respect when they took the job, which was my point. (Guy Pearce, Russell Crowe, Naomi Watts, that...guy who is now on House)
>any exposure is good exposure.
Like Paris Hilton. Or that brute Matthew Newton.
2) Stage auditions for parts in TV and film. HELLO????????
>Again many TV and Film actors start of in theatre (Kevin >Spacey is one that comes to mind) plus many keep their >connections with theatre (eg Judy Dench). Making the >transition from stage to Film/TV happens all the time.
Don't forget to mention Robert Deniro, Al Pacino, Ellen Burstyn, Marlon Brando, John Leguizamo, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Sam Neill, Dustin Hoffman and the other swath of hugely popular film actors who once did theatre. My point (which chose to be succinct instead of laboured) was: stage and film acting do not cross over, no matter how ignorant a producer, director or agent.
That being said, here's another name: Geoffrey Rush
3) 16-25 year olds can't compete in the industry with 26-40 year olds who look younger than them.
>Any respectable director will keep in mind that a mentally >old person naturally acts older and finds it harder to act >younger than another is is young.
Which would be why Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio get cast in parts for their age, right?
>Sorry, your points don't hold much strength when there is >plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Misintepretation goes a long way.
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