Brian Koppelman (Rounders, Ocean’s 11) has begun making six-second videos via Vine with helpful advice for screenwriters. The New Yorker wrote an article about it, invoking the holy name of Ben Hecht.
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Learning from Directors
Indiewire has a terrific way for you to spend some time in front of your computer: 
5 Inside the Actors Studio episodes – interviews with top directors. Make yourself comfortable.
Casting Director Marci Liroff recently gave actors’ a little gift: She compiled a list of casting direocrs who tweet. Marci herself is a crazily active tweeter, and with this list she’s given actors the opportunity to receive advice directly from cd’s. And maybe get the chance to know them a bit, so when you go in for them, you might even drop a question or comment about their interests.
My, How You’ve Grown
Business First of Louisville today ran a nice piece on the growth of Slated. 
Until I saw it, I hadn’t realized how much we’ve grown. When Business First previously ran piece on Slated, we had 44 films listed, and now we have 230. And before we had probably about 2,000 users in our network, and now we have 5,000. Who doesn’t appreciate a little perspective?
Mentalist redux
For those fans of TV’s The Mentalist, I’ll be returning this fall (probably in late October) for an episode as Richard Haiback, the character I played a couple years ago. Thumbs up! (That’ll make more sense after you see the ep…)
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