By Arlen Williams ——Bio and Archives--October 8, 2010
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We offer every actor our unique Back Stage Casting Pledge: We check out all casting notices before we publish them. We never simply publish a casting notice as submitted. We ask questions, check references, and refuse to publish calls that seem less than reputable. No other publication takes the steps we do to protect actors. For instance, we ask production companies to indicate if roles are paid or not; if any roles require nudity; are they seeking union or nonunion actors (and if it's union, under which contract); and so forth...No mention of nudity is to be seen in the Obama casting call, thankfully. However (and this may be very difficult to accept, among his chief supporters) no union scale will be paid. And, still noting the "About Us" page, we have the following warning to taxpaying American Citizens: "You should never go into an audition wondering if the person behind that door will try to take your money -- or worse." Thank you, Back Stage, but it is too late for that to be a mystery. All this being the case, they conclude with with the following confession: "Despite our best efforts, con artists and creeps occasionally fool us." And so must many voters in the 2008 Election concur. h/t: SGBL Permission is granted to repost this Gulag Bound "Daily Inspection" entry in its entirety. - AW
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Arlen Williams has been an organizer of electoral action in Illinois and Wisconsin, in addition to a career in technology sales. Arlen’s writing usually addresses politics, critical world events, and media review.