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Movie Stunts Gone Wrong + 2 Actions for Performer’s Safety

As a character actor Paul Cram is no stranger to performing his own stunts, and honestly he hates it. Listen in as he shares a couple stories from his days working on non-union independent films when the stunts went bad, and he was left bleeding and hurt.
He also includes a couple of actions you can take to help safety on set. They include: ONE — make sure that someone shows you how to perform the stunt, and TWO — have a stunt coordinator on set, this one will really help you because it’s an extra set of eyes on your safety — over not having one on set with you at all.
#Stunts Learn more about Paul Cram online at www.IamPaulCram.com

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Casting Director Cathy Reinking Shares Creative Insights for Working Actors

Listen in as award winning casting director Cathy Reinking (Frasier, Arrested Development) speaks with artist Paul Cram about the third edition of “How to Book Acting Jobs 3.0.” They also delve into some of her life experiences and inspirations for creating.
Find more about Cathy on her website https://www.youritfactor.net
About the book: In this updated version, topics that are covered anew are CREATING YOUR OWN CONTENT, THE ENTREPRENEUR ACTOR, WHERE TO LIVE (now you have 3 choices), SELF-TAPES, SOCIAL MEDIA AND BEING AN INFLUENCER, and THE NEW PILOT SEASON. Hot Topics that are revisited and revised: How to Enhance Your Charisma, Different Styles of Auditioning for Different Genres, How to Better Calibrate Your On-Camera Self, How to Get us to say “YES” to you, and so much more.

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BOOK REVIEW: The Men With The Pink Triangle – Book Review

This book is the first-published and still the best-known testimony by a gay survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. It’s the autobiography of Josef Kohout, an Austrian Holocaust survivor; he was imprisoned for his homosexuality. His story opens new doors onto our understanding of homosexuality and the Holocaust. It was first published in 1980.
Paul Cram shares some of the portions of the book that stood out to him in this podcast episode.
Heinz Heger was the pen name of Hans Neumann, an acquaintance of Josef Kohout.

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BOOK INTERVIEW: “Starvation,” YA Fiction, Love Stories and more with author Molly Fennig

Paul Cram speaks with YA author Molly Fennig about her latest book “Starvation.” Listen in as they discuss some of the Twin Cities author’s writing process, the themes in the book, and much more. Includes some heavy topics- eating disorders, suicide, and death.

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Paul Cram speaks with YA author Molly Fennig about her latest book “Starvation.” Listen in as they discuss some of the Twin Cities author’s writing process, the themes in the book, and much more. Includes some heavy topics- eating disorders, suicide, and death.

Synopsis:

John Green meets Laurie Halse Anderson in this award-winning, “haunting,” and “incredibly real” book that “holds you there until the very last sentence”.

16-year-old Wes McCoy is not the favorite child.

He does not have a wrestling scholarship to Stanford nor does he live up to the family legacy as an athlete, unlike his brother, Jason. But when Jason dies in a car accident on the way to the state high school wrestling championship, Wes turns to food to give him the control over his life he didn’t have before– the kind of success he never tasted.

Wes must take back control from his eating disorder as he learns more about himself and the mystery surrounding Jason’s accident, before he loses his life and those closest to him.

About Molly Fennig:

Molly Fennig self-published her first novel, InSomnus, at age 17. Throughout college she published short stories in The Blue Route Literary Magazine, The Blue Nib, the Running Wild Press Anthology, Havik 2020 Anthology and other literary presses. Her second novel, Starvation, was published by Immortal Works in November 2020 when she was 22. The book explores themes such as male eating disorders and mental health, and won a 2021 Independent Press Award.

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Books, Cats, and the Evil Empire – Oh My!

Listen in as actor Paul Cram speaks with Kevin Coolidge.
In addition to being the co-owner of From My Shelf Books & Gifts, Kevin Coolidge is a children’s book author of the Totally Ninja Racoons. Kevin resides in Wellsboro, just a short hike from the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon. When he’s not writing, you can find him at the bookstore which he could not run without his lovely wife, several helpful employees, and two friendly bookstore cats, Huck & Finn.

https://kevincoolidge.org
https://wellsborobookstore.com

Clips shown in the episode include:

YouTube Series: “From My Shelf Books vs The Evil Empire”
https://youtu.be/GFQCUsbdI2o

Red Shoes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73KO9oA14g

After Day Z, https://youtu.be/gFTmU-fvZXE

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