DON'T LET THE MEDIA TELL YOU WHO DEAN IS

I speak now as a twenty five year career actor in TV and movies Most who read me know that I ain't no Dean guy.....BUT. The media has assassinated the guy, pounding him like nobody since Nixon, a guy who they hated because he busted their darling, the Ivy League communist spy Alger Hiss. The Democrat Party is the media's party and the media doesn't want to get wiped out. The party is theirs. The big media anti-Dean thing now is "the concession speech"; derided as a rave, over the top, "Dean Goes Nuts" and so on. Another rap that is off the mark.

TV is known in the trade as "a HOT media". Actors compare it in temperature to the "cool" stage, the media where all actors learn their craft. The theater audience is at least 100 feet from the actor and distances can be as much as 150 feet to the back of the theater; in outdoor parks it can be 300 feet or more. Think goal line to the opponent fifty and goal line to goal line. In that medium an actor must be "larger than life". Gestures, voice, movements have to be communicated across a great distance. TV and movies are far different. In those two media the actor is close; the TV audience is three feet away from the actor; in a movie the actor's face is 40 feet high on the screen making him/her very very close. An actor in film and TV has to MINIMIZE gestures and movement; an eye blink can convey everything; the slow movement of eyes, the slight parting of the lips, a grunt can move an entire script forward. Dean was on stage (cool media) talking to his audience in the back of a room while he was simultaneously on "hot" media TV. His appearance was distorted.

Does he need a TV advisor? Yes. Is he nuts? No. This attack on him is vicious and wrong. Vote against him for what he stands for. The mistake was of a man who isn't a phony. He isn't the kind of guy who hires TV manipulators so he'll look good. That's it and nothing else. BTW do you think that "Botox Teresa" would be a good First Lady? She is the "Nightmare on Elm Street" in person.