what’s in a name (part i)

I had conversation last year with someone who isn’t an actor about how actors have a cool job. we serve as avatars or icons or something. though it’s different now, I figured from the (brief) days of actors making up screen names (once referred, long ago as a stage names) are gone, and whatever you have to say about actors in the new economy (which never existed) it is a job, that, unlike other vocations means you have to have a grip on how to use your public image. for me, i used a phonetically accurate spelling for a year while i was making shorts and acting in shorts and even shot two days of principal photography on a feature film with Drew Barrymore and Justin Long (which i hear is a reallly dirty movie) and it’s all under a slightly unusual name that serves a very singular purpose to fixate our attention on the historical definition of the stereotype – you know, the part that says it’s all based on fonts.