Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Three Day sin Vegas
The film is called "Three Days in Vegas" but when I wrote that in the subject line autocorrect made it "three day sin Vegas" ....that I find amusing as it probably describes many people's experiences in our town!
Night shoots...we have a lot of them here. It's the best time for production companies to use the casinos for filming.
And it's always night time in Vegas. Didn't you know that?
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Remember the "Cold War"? Me neither.
How do you say "action" in Russian?
I find it amusing that my car is being booked yet again along with me for another film. I decided it was going to be a "working car" when I bought it and It is, still.
Shooting was at the Tropicana. This is a scene where the four friends arrive in town full of excitement. Of course they all look fresh and unwrinkled even though they have supposedly been flying for hours from their home country.
My car is lined up in good company at the front entrance...a Jaguar, a Corvette, two BMWs and my Chrysler...as I said it's in good company!
My "walk by" role was as mundane as these usually are. We wrapped at 4am, only six hours. Not bad at all. Night shoots are usually 10-12 hrs. Sun down to sun up.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Elton....thanks for nothing..Diva!
Its odd when your part is cancelled 30 seconds before its supposed to happen. Maybe we will get another chance to lock in this scene for the concert DVD. Hey, anyone can have a bad day, even ELTON JOHN....
At least he had his temper tantrum in time for me to book it next door to Mirage to make my 9:30 Beatles LOVE show. Had the ticket in my purse since my husband and I had bought them days before I was booked to take some lovely friends from New York who were in town.
So by taking the secret exit from the Coliseum Theatre and hustling down very quickly down the strip towards Mirage, I made it to my seat by 9:25!
The "Las Vegas Review Journal" and columnist of "Vegas Confidential", Norm Clarke says it best:
ELTON JOHN BOOED AFTER LOSING TEMPER DURING SHOW
All dressed up and nowhere to dance! Michael Rizza, Elise, Anna Wendt, Geneva, and Brian Scott.
At least he had his temper tantrum in time for me to book it next door to Mirage to make my 9:30 Beatles LOVE show. Had the ticket in my purse since my husband and I had bought them days before I was booked to take some lovely friends from New York who were in town.
So by taking the secret exit from the Coliseum Theatre and hustling down very quickly down the strip towards Mirage, I made it to my seat by 9:25!
The "Las Vegas Review Journal" and columnist of "Vegas Confidential", Norm Clarke says it best:
ELTON JOHN BOOED AFTER LOSING TEMPER DURING SHOW
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Wow...IMDb works fast!
Just a few days after I am finally up on IMDB I get an email from a director I worked with on one of the very first movies I ever did..(Deathumentary). He wants to see some demo reel for a film he is researching. Works for me!
His last film is called "Assasins Code" and starred that cute blonde from that movie with Brooke Shields...oh, yes, Christopher Atkins? He still looks really good...must work out.
The directors name is Larry Riggins...(you can look him up on IMDB..lol). He is researching a film on the O.J. Simpson story and he saw I had played Nicole Brown Simpson in a re-enactment show back in 2004. So, we'll seeee....about 1 of every 10 projects like this work out in this business so I just go with the flow. Every actor has many parts that are cast but never filmed, filmed but edited out, filmed but never released....that's the biz.
It's strange though. So long ago when I was still back in Minnesota and I heard about this crime I thought I should play her...we really look alike. But then I thought, "how could that be possible"...it was such a long shot. It was odd that several months later during a sporting goods show I met Marcus Allen and he just stood there shaking his head at me...then he said..."wow"...quietly and walked away...I think I shook him up.
Unsolved History, "The Case of O.J. Simpson".....
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His last film is called "Assasins Code" and starred that cute blonde from that movie with Brooke Shields...oh, yes, Christopher Atkins? He still looks really good...must work out.
The directors name is Larry Riggins...(you can look him up on IMDB..lol). He is researching a film on the O.J. Simpson story and he saw I had played Nicole Brown Simpson in a re-enactment show back in 2004. So, we'll seeee....about 1 of every 10 projects like this work out in this business so I just go with the flow. Every actor has many parts that are cast but never filmed, filmed but edited out, filmed but never released....that's the biz.
It's strange though. So long ago when I was still back in Minnesota and I heard about this crime I thought I should play her...we really look alike. But then I thought, "how could that be possible"...it was such a long shot. It was odd that several months later during a sporting goods show I met Marcus Allen and he just stood there shaking his head at me...then he said..."wow"...quietly and walked away...I think I shook him up.
Unsolved History, "The Case of O.J. Simpson".....
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"IMDB me"
I can finally say this!
Any actor knows how important this is...I tried back in '06 and they gave my credit to a,different Anna Wendt who had just joined before me, a German film producer and actress who actually kind of looks like me and about the same age. So I was hesitant to give them anymore credits because if they gave them to her it'd be head to clean that up later. The fun thing to do when joining IMDB is to check your weekly "rank". Many of us get a bit obsessed with this at first. My rank went from 136,878 up to 125,456 last week, so that's something. Considering there are almost 4 million actors and production professionals on the site, that's not bad. Now that I'm registering my credits I am finding so many films and tv shows I worked on that I forgot about. Some of them are even on YouTube....so now is a time that I don't regret not posing for playboy or starring in any racy films, since everything seems to be on YouTube these days!
www.imdb.me/annawendt
Any actor knows how important this is...I tried back in '06 and they gave my credit to a,different Anna Wendt who had just joined before me, a German film producer and actress who actually kind of looks like me and about the same age. So I was hesitant to give them anymore credits because if they gave them to her it'd be head to clean that up later. The fun thing to do when joining IMDB is to check your weekly "rank". Many of us get a bit obsessed with this at first. My rank went from 136,878 up to 125,456 last week, so that's something. Considering there are almost 4 million actors and production professionals on the site, that's not bad. Now that I'm registering my credits I am finding so many films and tv shows I worked on that I forgot about. Some of them are even on YouTube....so now is a time that I don't regret not posing for playboy or starring in any racy films, since everything seems to be on YouTube these days!
www.imdb.me/annawendt
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