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Bob Hope Wasn’t The Only One Who Used Idiot Cards

May 25th, 2008

When Bob Hope moved into television, he lost the opportunity to hold his script in his hand , something he had gotten used to working in radio. The presentation would look too stiff to his audience. He tried to memorize his monologues, but that proved to be too cumbersome of a task and it took away from his golf game. The solution was cue cards, or idiot cards as they are known in the industry. This worked well for the performer, but was hazardous for others. On one of Hope’s early NBC broadcasts a well meaning assistant director held up the cards so his star could read them, then tossed them back over his shoulder almost decapitating several members of the studio audience.

Idiot cards are a way for performers to lose the respect of their co-stars. James Caan, Robert Duvall and the rest of the cast of the 1972 classic, The Godfather , were thrilled to meet the star of the movie Marlon Brando. Actor Lenny Montana, who played the thuggish character Luca Brasi was so in awe of Brando he kept fumbling his lines when they both shared the same scenes. Director Francis Ford Coppola made it work by having the character of Luca nervously rehearse what he was going to say prior to meeting the Don, making the situation appear seamless. But if Montana was willing, if unable to learn his lines, Brando was not. In his scenes there were cue cards everywhere, causing Duvall to yell at him,” Marlon, why don’t you learn your lines you fat #*^%*@!”

Brando stubbornly refused to change. A year later when performing in the controversial and sex charged Last Tango In Paris he wrote some of his lines on the bottom of his shoe and in a few scenes had to hop around awkwardly to read them.

For some actors, idiot cards are the ultimate security blanket. Shortly before he died the great John Barrymore had a scene where he only had to deliver one line: “Yes”. Dutifully, his personal assistant stood ready to hold up a cue card. One of the film techs informed the director that Barrymore’s helper was standing in the way, they would not be able to light the scene properly. The director waited for his star to arrive. “Jack, Can I talk to you?” “Certainly.” “Would it be possible for you do this one scene without your idiot card?” “Absolutely Not”. The director sighed,” Jack you only have to say yes, that’s it. What happens if I order your friend to leave?” Barrymore looked at him coldly. “I might say no.” In the end new lighting arrangements were made.

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“Don’t dig your own pit”

May 3rd, 2008

If you want to enjoy your life out of spending,enjoy if you have you have your own resources and money.

But don’t enjoy your life by becoming a debtor to somebody.


Ofcourse in the modern world,there are many ways and means, which force you to become a debtor.


Attractive advertisements in the satellite TV force you to become a debtor.It tempt you to buy the modern amenities at any


cost.


Even though if you don’t have any money or resources it show you many resources for obtaining credit to buy that


product.But you must think thousand times before becoming a debtor.


In today’s world credit is the easily available commodity.Numerous companies waiting to pull you in their trap.They are


competing severely to pull you in their trap.


But you must be careful to entangle in that trap.


In spite of this caution if you are prepared to enjoy,then you won’t get any pleasure,but you will lose your peace of mind.


Let us discuss about the common desire of everybody.It is natural that every body wants to have their own house.It is a


reasonable desire.


But the desire can be attained if you have enough money on your own to buy the house.


If you are an executive working in a company what will you think.


You will ready to apply for some loan and buy that house.Alright you have decided and applied for a loan also and the


loan has also been sanctioned.


You will ask the engineer to construct the house with in the sanction of loan.


The Engineer on seeing the plan will say “Sir,you are constructing house once in your life time,why such a low budget house,we can increase slightly your plan sir,it won’t cost much only a 10% increase in your normal budget”he will tempt you.


By that time you will also have some Himalayan courage,and think why we can’t adjust that 10% increase,ok we can adjust that 10% increase by obtaining loan from our relatives,and you give consent to the engineer’s suggestion.


The Engineer begin to build your house.The house is also going to be completed soon and only some finishing work is there.


You ask your engineer ‘when can I take possession of the house’, sir?


The engineer will politely tell you,Sir,there is a small problem,the problem is there is a sudden increase in the cost of materials,so I fear whether it is possible to complete the building what we have already planned.


But you are in the dream that the house should be constructed at any cost.So you don’t bother about the resource to complete the house and prepared to arrange for the money required for completing the house.


What you will do.The next thing before you will be some bank balances available out of your savings and the jewels of your wife or your children.


So your savings,jewels will all go from you and fill the cashbox of another businessmen.


Your house become ready atlast.On seeing the house raised beautifully you forgot all the sources where the money came from to complete the house.


You will forget about the loan you obtained from your company.


You will forget about the loan you obtained from your relatives.


You will forget about the erosion of your savings and jewels.


All these will come to your remembrance only when the company commences their recovery for the loan you obtained.


All these will come to your remembrance only when your relatives need the money they paid.


All these will come to your remembrance when you don’t have enough money in your savings account for your urgent requirement.


Then your mind will think about the the resource to fill up the deficit in the family budget,the loan to repay to your relatives and for your urgent requirement.


You will get easy resource to fill up this deficity,because you are working in a company,getting regular salary,higher salary.Companies are ready to give credit.


You are also ready to get credit from another company to fill up the deficit.


So you are ready to close the small debt pit,and begin to dig another debt pit,which is little more in size than the first pit.


The same deficit pressure mounts after some time.Again you are prepared to obtain loan from another company.


Now you dig another debt pit, which is more than the size of first and second debt pit.


Like this you will go on digging pit after closing the earlier pit to overcome your deficit.


Finally at one stage when you see the remaining pit,it will look like a deep pit, which you cannot fill it up from any source.


So the ultimate choice before you will be to dispose off the house and fill up the huge pit finally stands before you.


You have also made arrangements to dispose off the house.


One person came forward to buy the house.Even though the rate offered by him is not as expected by you,you have no other option except to get the money and fill it up the debt pit.


The house was finally sold off and you got the money.But while working out the amount you have to settle to your debtors,you need some more money.


However with the proceeds realized out of selling the house,you have settled most of the debt and still keep some portion of the debt.


So what happened to your dream of having house.You have lost all your savings,jewels,and other resources and still you have to settle more debts?


Where all of your money has gone?


It is no secret,most part of your debt were for the interest.


The interest made you to close one pit and dig another pit and finally you was let with a big pit with most part of the pit were for interest.


This is a common plight of most of the families especially in the middle class peoples.


The reason is due to their mental capability to enjoy all modern amenities without knowing their economic capability.


Enjoying the life is absolutely necessary but it should be from our own resources.We can enjoy the life but not on obtaining debt.


We have to increase our resources to enjoy the life.We should find out the opportunities to increase our resources and then think about enjoying the amenities.


krishnan.cauthor

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Krishnan.c,is writting articles mostly on motivational topics blended with his professional and personal experiences. Recently he has released his ebook “You can succeed”.
Author’s website:
http://www.tncity.biz

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The Next Generation Console Debate

April 3rd, 2008

High Def vs. High Creativity……

There is much talk these days of the high tech hoopla involving
the next generation consoles. Microsoft and Sony have both
announced that their next gen systems will include High
Definition as one of the key new features, while Nintendo has
stated that it will pass up on the High Def for now and go with
a more creative system instead. Both Microsoft and Sony have
showed and their consoles and both look really good so far, thus
most hardcore gamers have written Nintendo off as being a
contender for the next gen crown. Is this possibly an oversight?

YES, this is an oversight. How can anyone write off the
brilliant minds at Nintendo? IGN’s people seem to think that HD
trumps creativity, as do Gamespot and most of the major gaming
media organizations. It is with this knowledge that I give fair
warning, DO NOT UNDERSTIMATE THE POWER OF CREATIVITY. Nintendo
has brought innovation throughout their term as leader in the
video game world. They have brought us to know innovations such
as the Game Boy, the touchpad (touching IS good) and a host of
creative and innovative games throughout the years, which by the
way, will be downloadable with their own upcoming next gen
system, the Revolution. They have been a staple of the creative
prowess that it takes to push this industry in the right
direction. How can anyone overlook that? I constantly see people
and hear people say, “Nintendo isn’t even offering HD in the
Revolution, what’s up with that?”

What’s up with that, is that while Microsoft and Sony spend
their time trying to trump each other with their HD and other
technologies, Nintendo is creating new technology that will
“Revolutionize” the way that we play games today. It is true
that both the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 will be very nice
consoles, and give us every little slice of tech heaven that we
have been yearning for, but Nintendo may just trump them all
with the invent of new technologies the likes of which Microsoft
and Sony have never even dreamed of. It will be much easier for
Nintendo to solicit companies to help them make their next
console (the one after the Revolution) be HD compliant and up to
times with the technology than it will be for Microsoft and Sony
to find a company to help them to get creative.

Eventually, I see all gaming consoles going in the same
direction, high end technology, with first rate creative input
and output. The difference in the console war will be which
roads that each company will take to get there. Microsoft and
Sony seem to be taking the easy road, by updating their consoles
to the more advanced technologies during this generation, while
Nintendo takes the harder road by knocking the creativity factor
out first. This is why they may not have a leg up on the
competition this time around, but in the next great next
generation console war, they will have TWO legs up on their
competition.