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Your friends can’t save you, Randy Lee Blain of Atlanta, Georgia. YOu fucked yourself, and I have the proof I needed, screw-up. — Carl We’re bigger than Jesus! – JWLennon – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – *** post for FREE via your newsreader at post.newsfeeds.com *** Dear Opus, (Carla), Carla, you wrote an alt.acting post to me a while ago about a regional commercial you were set to do and  about other casting issues.  Though you’re a colleague and a friend, I truly thought that it was a forgery. You had changed your address on alt.acting, because of the forgery and cancellation issues.  And I reacted impulsively.  Drama Queen informed me that the post was a real Opus post, and you confirmed it privately. I’ve already apologized privately…. but then you and others know that it’s sometimes hard to know whom you’re dealing with, given the folks who are going out of their way to destroy this group.  Is it real, or is it memorex?  <g Anyway, I promised to respond when I knew it was the real Opus, but then I lost the original post, so, you have sent me this post: Letter #1:  An economics journalist  has found more important quotations reflecting the "lost American viewpoint."  Note especially, Wilson’s tragic admission: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."       –Thomas Jefferson " History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."      –James Madison " If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations." "I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a monied aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."       –Andrew Jackson "The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity."    –Abraham Lincoln  (Assassinated, 1865) "We should look at the national debt just as it is — not as a national blessing, but as a heavy burden on the industry of the country, to be discharged without unnecessary delay.    –Andrew Johnson, Dec. 4, 1865  (Only impreached President in 200 years) Despite these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later Wilson confessed: "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.   Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." Here is mail  received over the weekend on the bankruptcy-receivership coup of 1933.  Apparently this is something that has been discovered again and again, but never breaks through the Receivership-controlled portals to public awareness.  I have pasted these merely in the order in which I opened them. It’s a little bit much to take.  (Sweet Jesus, I look to you!) Dick Eastman Yakima Letter #2: A reader has sent Eugene Schroder’s history of the 1933 bankruptcy action against the United States and the clandestine placement of the former assets of the United States government into the hands of a receivership on behalf of the investment-banking creditors: http://buffalo-creek-press.com/consec.htm Dr. Eugene Schroeder has found the key to why our Constitutionally guaranteed rights are violated daily. It’s the insidious use of "emergency powers" meant to be used only in time of invasion of rebellion. Dr. Schroeder proves with the government’s own documents that the Constitution has been effectively set aside since 1933. Eleven presidents, both Democrat and Republican, have used emergency powers for the last 62 years to regulate our daily lives without the inconvenience of Congressional approval. The definition of "emergencies" has been stretched to include economic problems, social imbalances, and perceived threats to the US by any foreign country’s actions, even those on other continents. Senate Report 93-549, written in 1973, says "Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency…Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the president may: seize property;…seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication;…restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens." The president can act through Executive Order, Presidential Proclamation, or through his many agencies, which include most of the alphabet agencies. The framers of the Constitution asserted that Americans have certain inalienable, God-given rights. But under emergency rule, all these rights are declared null and void. The government charges us for these rights by requiring licenses and excessive paperwork, with strings attached, as long as restrictive and ill-defined requirements are met. Dr. Schroeder’s landmark research is documented -You can contact Dr. Schroeder thru this web page as well as get e-copies of his books http://buffalo-creek-press.com/consec.htm ——- Letter #3: Hi Dick, Just go here (look familiar?) and enter FixGov in the search box. The list is open and unmoderated but you’ll have to join to view, but thats automatic. Check out AlternateCulture too http://groups.yahoo.com/ This is basically kind of an earth firstish leftish thing but it’s anti capitalist (not anti entrepeneurial or  anti free enterprise). Here is a report from November 19, 1973 that deals with the unconstitutional use of executive orders by the president to make law. It traces the several proclamations of states of emergency beginning March 9, 1933 and the 470 federal laws that sprang from them. http://www.netreach.net/~kaufman/Senate.1973.html REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY BY THE UNITED STATES SENATE, NOVEMBER 19, 1973, Senate Report No. 93-549. – —- Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, in 1973, at the time of this report, there were in effect four presidentially proclaimed states of emergency. In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there was also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 6, 1950 during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971. Those proclamations gave force to 470 provisions of Federal Law. Those hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers ordinarily exercised by Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal Constitutional process. Under the powers delegated by these statutes the President may: seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, institute martial law, seize and control all transportation and communication, regulate the operation of private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens. The Executive Branch of Government, (President) under our Constitution, except for Recommendation and Veto, has no legislative power. The issuance of an Executive Order, which has no Congressional authorization or review by the judiciary, is in truth, a law made by a single man, the President of the United States. Congress has in most important respects, except for the final action of floor debate and formal passage of bills, permitted the Executive Branch to draft and in large measure to "make the laws". This has occurred despite the Constitutional responsibility conferred on Congress by Article I, Section 8 of the Federal Constitution which states that it is Congress that " makes all Laws ". President Roosevelt greatly extended the concept of "emergencies" to which expansion of executive powers might be applied. In so doing, he established a pattern that was followed frequently: In time of crisis the President should utilize any statutory authority readily at hand, regardless of its original purposes, with the firm expectation of ex post facto congressional concurrence. Beginning with F.D.R., the extensive use of delegated powers exercised under an aura

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*** post for FREE via your newsreader at post.newsfeeds.com *** – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Dear Opus, (Carla), Carla, you wrote an alt.acting post to me a while ago about a regional commercial you were set to do and  about other casting issues.  Though you’re a colleague and a friend, I truly thought that it was a forgery. You had changed your address on alt.acting, because of the forgery and cancellation issues.  And I reacted impulsively.  Drama Queen informed me that the post was a real Opus post, and you confirmed it privately. I’ve already apologized privately…. but then you and others know that it’s sometimes hard to know whom you’re dealing with, given the folks who are going out of their way to destroy this group.  Is it real, or is it memorex?  <g Anyway, I promised to respond when I knew it was the real Opus, but then I lost the original post, so, you have sent me this post:

Letter #1:  An economics journalist  has found more important quotations reflecting the "lost American viewpoint."  Note especially, Wilson’s tragic admission: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered…. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."        –Thomas Jefferson " History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and its issuance."       –James Madison " If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to individuals or corporations." "I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a monied aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."        –Andrew Jackson  "The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity."     –Abraham Lincoln  (Assassinated, 1865) "We should look at the national debt just as it is — not as a national blessing, but as a heavy burden on the industry of the country, to be discharged without unnecessary delay.     –Andrew Johnson, Dec. 4, 1865  (Only impreached President in 200 years) Despite these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later Wilson confessed: "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit.   Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men." Here is mail  received over the weekend on the bankruptcy-receivership coup of 1933.  Apparently this is something that has been discovered again and again, but never breaks through the Receivership-controlled portals to public awareness.  I have pasted these merely in the order in which I opened them. It’s a little bit much to take.  (Sweet Jesus, I look to you!) Dick Eastman Yakima Letter #2: A reader has sent Eugene Schroder’s history of the 1933 bankruptcy action against the United States and the clandestine placement of the former assets of the United States government into the hands of a receivership on behalf of the investment-banking creditors: http://buffalo-creek-press.com/consec.htm Dr. Eugene Schroeder has found the key to why our Constitutionally guaranteed rights are violated daily. It’s the insidious use of "emergency powers" meant to be used only in time of invasion of rebellion. Dr. Schroeder proves with the government’s own documents that the Constitution has been effectively set aside since 1933. Eleven presidents, both Democrat and Republican, have used emergency powers for the last 62 years to regulate our daily lives without the inconvenience of Congressional approval. The definition of "emergencies" has been stretched to include economic problems, social imbalances, and perceived threats to the US by any foreign country’s actions, even those on other continents. Senate Report 93-549, written in 1973, says "Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency…Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the president may: seize property;…seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication;…restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens." The president can act through Executive Order, Presidential Proclamation, or through his many agencies, which include most of the alphabet agencies. The framers of the Constitution asserted that Americans have certain inalienable, God-given rights. But under emergency rule, all these rights are declared null and void. The government charges us for these rights by requiring licenses and excessive paperwork, with strings attached, as long as restrictive and ill-defined requirements are met. Dr. Schroeder’s landmark research is documented -You can contact Dr. Schroeder thru this web page as well as get e-copies of his books http://buffalo-creek-press.com/consec.htm ——- Letter #3: Hi Dick, Just go here (look familiar?) and enter FixGov in the search box. The list is open and unmoderated but you’ll have to join to view, but thats automatic. Check out AlternateCulture too http://groups.yahoo.com/ This is basically kind of an earth firstish leftish thing but it’s anti capitalist (not anti entrepeneurial or  anti free enterprise). Here is a report from November 19, 1973 that deals with the unconstitutional use of executive orders by the president to make law. It traces the several proclamations of states of emergency beginning March 9, 1933 and the 470 federal laws that sprang from them.  http://www.netreach.net/~kaufman/Senate.1973.html REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON THE TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY BY THE UNITED STATES SENATE, NOVEMBER 19, 1973, Senate Report No. 93-549. – —- Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, in 1973, at the time of this report, there were in effect four presidentially proclaimed states of emergency. In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there was also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 6, 1950 during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971. Those proclamations gave force to 470 provisions of Federal Law. Those hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers ordinarily exercised by Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal Constitutional process. Under the powers delegated by these statutes the President may: seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, institute martial law, seize and control all transportation and communication, regulate the operation of private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens. The Executive Branch of Government, (President) under our Constitution, except for Recommendation and Veto, has no legislative power. The issuance of an Executive Order, which has no Congressional authorization or review by the judiciary, is in truth, a law made by a single man, the President of the United States. Congress has in most important respects, except for the final action of floor debate and formal passage of bills, permitted the Executive Branch to draft and in large measure to "make the laws". This has occurred despite the Constitutional responsibility conferred on Congress by Article I, Section 8 of the Federal Constitution which states that it is Congress that " makes all Laws ". President Roosevelt greatly extended the concept of "emergencies" to which expansion of executive powers might be applied. In so doing, he established a pattern that was followed frequently: In time of crisis the President should utilize any statutory authority readily at hand, regardless of its original purposes, with the firm expectation of ex post facto congressional concurrence. Beginning with F.D.R., the extensive use of delegated powers exercised under an aura of crisis has become a dominant aspect of the Presidency. (See Senate Report 93-549, pg 5) A review of the laws passed since the first state of national emergency was declared in 1933, reveals a consistent pattern of law-making. It is a pattern showing that the Congress, through its own actions, transferred awesome magnitudes of power to the executive ostensibly to meet the problems of … read more »

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Dear Opus, (Carla), Carla, you wrote an alt.acting post to me a while ago about a regional commercial you were set to do and  about other casting issues.  Though you’re a colleague and a friend, I truly thought that it was a forgery.  You had changed your address on alt.acting, because of the forgery and cancellation issues.  And I reacted impulsively.  Drama Queen informed me that the post was a real Opus post, and you confirmed it privately.  I’ve already apologized privately…. but then you and others know that it’s sometimes hard to know whom you’re dealing with, given the folks who are going out of their way to destroy this group.  Is it real, or is it memorex?  <g Anyway, I promised to respond when I knew it was the real Opus, but then I lost the original post, so, you have sent me this post: …..here was my original question, and I’ve since found out it is airing "nationally" for all intents and purposes, and it was a one-year buy-out: Hmmmm, new information, Carla.  I know that you’re on the borderline of earning your SAG or AFTRA card, and that that is your goal, even in a right-to-work state.  So, it turned out to be non-union, but at least you and your agent negotiated a one-year buy-out. You’re heard my horror stories about actors who sold their souls to perpetual buy-outs, wherein an actor’s $350 buck fee is sold ever and forever for local, regional and even national markets. At least you and your agent set some limits.  Good! Non-union commercials are instant death, unless the spot runs for only  a month or so.  Even then, you’ve gotta wait for a while until your dumb commercial is forgotten. Then, you might become marketable again.

Consider this, Opus….. when you have a commercial running, you’ve diminished your marketability.  That’s why SAG and AFTRA in the 50s negotiated terms of residuals and limited terms and holding fees.  And even your non-union or union agent seems to have had the savvy to negotiate a deal in which there is an ongoing protection against infinite buyouts.  Good for you! So Bill– question. I am shooting a huge regional commercial tomorrow morning, and I completely understand and agree with what you’re saying.  However, I will be doing another comedic fantasy character, in full make-up and regalia.  It seems that I am constantly getting cast for comedic/cartoon/fantasy characters.  I don’t think I’m going to be recognizable, so does that change my future marketability factor? Interesting question.  We all go through periods and patterns of our marketability.  In my youth, I played romantic leads on stage, and villains in film. And I have not a clue about that distinction.  Nowadays, I’m a character actor. No amount of makeup will make me look like 20 or 30.  Look, type and ability will always define what roles you get.  And we, as actors, live with it. A few years ago, a TAS actor earned in a Lottery commercial,  the role of the "Queen of Hearts," loosely based on the the Lewis Carrol creation.  She was, then, leading romantic female material, but for some reason, she beat out all the older character actresses for this mature role.  And yeah, she was disguised by both costume and makeup.  Yet, for years, she hid that credit from her resume, fearing that she would be type-cast by the role.  Well, now that she’s a few years older, she lists the credit and includes it in her demo reel. One anecdote does not address your question, Carla.  But it’s an example that might create an interesting thread.  Realities and transitions.  When did Paul Newman move from leading male to charactor?  Why did Meryl Streep once get romantic leads, even though directors wanted an actor with a better nose? Well, I’ve not answered your question, Opus….. I can’t.  I’d have to audition you, first, and we can’t do that over the web, can we? Yet, I’ve been following your acting career, because you’ve demonstrated over the years your love of acting for film and stage and your dedication. Break a leg, Bill — THE ACTING STUDIO http://gvtg.com/theactingstudio

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I’m SO glad he’s been located.  Thanks for the update you two. Opus – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Oh hell, bubbles, I meant to write that this morning. According to the Times, he was found at JFK, completely disoriented, and mumbling incoherently. Yes, NYC can do that to you, but then again, he was in Lisbon… — Carl We’re bigger than Jesus! – JWLennon alt.acting Friends, Terry Costa is alive and safe (though in very strange condition). He stumbled off an unscheduled flight from Lisbon(!?) recently. Police said that he was totally disoriented and claimed no memory of the last few weeks. I guess New York will do that to you.  :) The full and totally bizarre story can be found on the National Post website: http://www.nationalpost.com/ -bubbles

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alt.acting Friends, Terry Costa is alive and safe (though in very strange condition). He stumbled off an unscheduled flight from Lisbon(!?) recently. Police said that he was totally disoriented and claimed no memory of the last few weeks. I guess New York will do that to you.  :) The full and totally bizarre story can be found on the National Post website: http://www.nationalpost.com/ -bubbles

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Oh hell, bubbles, I meant to write that this morning. According to the Times, he was found at JFK, completely disoriented, and mumbling incoherently. Yes, NYC can do that to you, but then again, he was in Lisbon… — Carl We’re bigger than Jesus! – JWLennon – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – alt.acting Friends, Terry Costa is alive and safe (though in very strange condition). He stumbled off an unscheduled flight from Lisbon(!?) recently. Police said that he was totally disoriented and claimed no memory of the last few weeks. I guess New York will do that to you.  :) The full and totally bizarre story can be found on the National Post website: http://www.nationalpost.com/ -bubbles

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