In Casting Directors' Secrets, casting directors from New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver offer insight in their own words into the do's and don'ts of the audition process and reveal the three biggest mistakes made by actors at this crucial stage. The book offers instruction in these areas and more: How to get the audition - training and preparation, headshots and resume, finding an agent, auditioning for agents; audition/interview etiquette - being late, canceling your appointment, waiting room do's and don'ts, staying focused, filling out the paperwork, behavior toward other actors; bad habits - perfume and cologne, first impressions, don't look for the casting couch!, you and your ego, brown-nosing, tell the truth but not the whole truth; artistic preparation - what your agent should tell you, working with sides, eye contact and the fourth wall, ice-cold readings; performing the audition - rewriting the dialogue, false starts, losing your place, violence in audition scenes (don't make it too real!); growing as an actor - taking risks, attending classes, maintaining the momentum; and more!

This successful text puts "personality" back into the personality course, integrating the classic insights of the personality theorists with modern research in a manner that will fascinate and encourage deeper thought. This text explores classic theory from a perspective that encourages critical thinking and fosters intellectual insight with respect to human nature. For example, it shows the relevance of classic theory to topics of personality and culture, evolution, ego, gender, and person-situation interactionism. Employing the highest scientific standards, Personality also uses a wide range of unique and provocative pedagogical devices that have been shown to motivate students. Hailed as the best-written, most relevant personality textbook on the market, Friedman and Schustack's fourth edition brings the field of personality to today's diverse student body.

Living in a private golf and country club is considered by most folks who have the means to do so, one step from paradise. Now I don't mean paradise in the sense of the hereafter, but rather a grand lifestyle in typically gorgeous surroundings. Say hello to Max Weinstock, who worked hard all his life, built up a business in Long Island, New York, and cashed in several years ago, retiring with his wife, Marilyn, to Boca Mar Vista Golf and Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida. It was all they dreamed that it would be. Of course, if their kids - managing their grandchildren's upbringing --- would move nearby, then paradise, in every sense of the word, would be realized. But they learned to live with it. As Marilyn loves to say, "It is what it is." Let's follow their day-to-day lives in the club and its environs, sharing their joys, annoyances, frustrations, and sorrows. Welcome to Boca Mar Vista and this tale of paradise, paradise lost and paradise regained.