Re: UFO acting

Well, acting ability is perhaps in the eye of the beholder, like beauty.
Also, perhaps there are differing views on what constitutes an adequate,
even good performance. I'd take Ed B. and Mike B. over some of the wooden
actors on TV today, esp when it comes to subtle emotional cues and such. As I
understand it, Ms. Drake had won some sort of high ranking medal for acting
when she was at RADA - she must have had some talent to be a medal winner.
Otherwise she wouldn't have gotten hired by the Andersons.

Pam

Pam, it not that she just won a medal. She won The Medal from RADA.
This meant that she finished top of her class at the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Arts. Just getting to to RADA is hard enough. Out of thousands of
applicants each year they only take the top 20. So this makes her the best
of the best.
And Ed Bishop isn't lacking in the talent department either. He did so
well at his drama classes at Boston University that he won a Fulbright
Scholarship and they don't hand those out like toys in a box of Crackerjacks
and continued his training at LAMDA(London Academy of Music and Dramatic
Arts).
Mike Billington now teachs acting and was good enough to get into the
Actors Studio the plays that trained the likes of Paul Newman, Marlan Brando,
Jason Robards and other great American actors when he came to the States.
It takes one thing to do what these people have done to attend the
schools they have gone to and to act in the number of stage, TV and Film
productions they have appeared in and that is talent. And that is not a
opinion. That is a fact backed up by not my opinion but the judgement of
some other finest in the profession in the craft of acting.

James K illian

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<<As I understand it, Ms. Drake had won some sort of
high ranking medal for acting when she was at RADA -
she must have had some talent to be a medal
winner. Otherwise she wouldn't have gotten hired by
the Andersons.>>

Anyone whose main role is a series is to sit on a film
stage in a silver suit with a purple wig and shout
"Interceptors - Immediate Launch !" and make it sound
sensible, let alone real, deserves a medal for
acting...

Regards,

Andy


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Hi James,

<<It takes one thing to do what these people (Ed B.,
Mike B., Gabrielle D.) have done to attend the
schools they have gone to and to act in the number of
stage, TV and Film productions they have appeared in
and that is talent. And that is not a opinion. That
is a fact backed up by not my opinion but the
judgement of some other finest in the profession in
the craft of acting.>>

Hear hear !

Andy


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From: Pam McCaughey

To: [hidden email]

Sent: 6/29/01 11:30:40 AM

Subject: [SHADO] Re: UFO acting





Well, acting ability is perhaps in the eye of the beholder, like
beauty.

Also, perhaps there are differing views on what constitutes an
adequate,

even good performance. I'd take Ed B. and Mike B. over some of
the wooden

actors on TV today, esp when it comes to subtle emotional cues and such. As
I

understand it, Ms. Drake had won some sort of high ranking medal for
acting

when she was at RADA - she must have had some talent to be a medal
winner.

Otherwise she wouldn't have gotten hired by the Andersons.



Pam









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Miss Drake was hired for her dynamite rack
and looks, not for her acting talent. Same can be said for most of the other
actors actresses on the series. They wanted a cute and hunky cast to fill
out the scenery. Think about it, why else would hey hire people whose primary
occupations are other than acting? eg- ex-military fittness
intstructor (Lew Waterman), professional dancers (Carlin), singers (Ayshea),
Georgina Moon, etc.... All these people LOOKED great, but their
acting talent was sadly lacking.

In my humble opinion, Bishop and Sheybal were the
only real actors on the show, and they were only given rare opportunities
to show it (Question..., Confetti..., Subsmash..., Mindbender...)



While I like all the actors involved in the show, I
think it's preposterous to place them on the thespian pedestal and worship them
with the likes of Deniro, Oldman, Streep, etc.



I'd like to meet and hang out with any of the
people that worked on the show, and discuss with them what a great show it
was....for me personally....but I sincerely believe, that given the chance,
they would all tell you what a lark working on the show really was, and not take
themselves to seriously.



UFO's big strength was in that it broke the campy,
stupid, cutsey mold of most science fiction series of the time. People died in
that show, tradgically and for no appearent good reason. It showed things going
horribly wrong, and didn't always try to rationalize it into a neat little
explanation....kind of like life itself.



thank you all.... Dave





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