And now for the September edition of our Hollywood bloopers feature. These are authentic casting calls sent to us by our friend the actress, along with her commentary:
Lot's of singing, lot's of solo's.
Lots of typos.
Queue card
Are you prepared to wait in line?
We will be auctioning actors.
I really hope not, because people are priceless.
She suffers from skitsafrania.
Unless that is a term you've made up on purpose in an attempt to be funny for a comedy skit, misspelling your character's condition on a casting call makes you seem uneducated.
One apostrophe-s might be a typo; three of them in the space of nine words can't be so easily excused.
ReplyDeleteBob, you are so right. I saw that you're speaking at an event for freelancers soon. I hope that goes well! (And I'm sure it will.)
ReplyDeleteThi's 'seem's like a 'suitable time to po'st a link to Mr Language Per'son, who recently repri'sed a column about apo'strophe's.
ReplyDeleteThank's, Barry.
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