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SoCalCoug · 02-19-2006, 03:56 AM

I hung out with Tim Hauser, the group's founder today. His daughter and my son have an acting class together - we both waited in the lobby of the studio for a couple of hours with another lady and kind of chatted. He's a pretty down-to-earth guy. Nice, too.

JohnnyLingo · 02-19-2006, 04:02 AM

What a coincidence... my wife and her brother were just discussing how much they like Manhattan Transfer. What school is your daughter at?

SoCalCoug · 02-19-2006, 04:12 AM

My son and his daughter - they go to an acting class in North Hollywood on Saturdays - It's called Class Act. Just a small class taught by a former child actor you've never heard of (Jeff Alan Lee) and another woman who's an actor. Their two most famous students are Scarlett Johansson and Shia LeBoeuf.

JohnnyLingo · 02-19-2006, 04:19 AM

That's cool... but you do know that if your son makes it big he's pretty much guaranteed to go crazy, don't you? There are few young actors\actresses I know of that have stayed grounded despite their fame... and the only actress I know if is Natalie Portman, which is part of the appeal.

MikeWaters · 02-19-2006, 04:27 AM

JL, how have you managed to stay sane given the accolades and popularity you have acquired from cougarboard?

JohnnyLingo · 02-19-2006, 04:46 AM

Obviously I haven't. Given that random people like Hazzard are making pre-emptive strikes against me, I'm far more messed up than I realize.

SoCalCoug · 02-19-2006, 04:58 AM

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There are few young actors\actresses I know of that have stayed grounded despite their fame

Rick Schroeder comes to mind.

The common thread I see with crazy kid actors is crazy families. Having met quite a number of kid actor parents now, I am surprised how many are actually pretty normal - yeah, there are the psycho parents, but there are a lot who are pretty grounded.

I don't see the fame much different for actors than it is for athletes - and we've seen a number of LDS athletes do okay. The important thing is for me to make sure he doesn't have success go to his head. Now he's just got to get a little success.

02-19-2006, 03:56 AM	#1
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	Any Manhattan Transfer fans? I hung out with Tim Hauser, the group's founder today. His daughter and my son have an acting class together - we both waited in the lobby of the studio for a couple of hours with another lady and kind of chatted. He's a pretty down-to-earth guy. Nice, too. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

02-19-2006, 04:12 AM	#3
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	My son and his daughter - they go to an acting class in North Hollywood on Saturdays - It's called Class Act. Just a small class taught by a former child actor you've never heard of (Jeff Alan Lee) and another woman who's an actor. Their two most famous students are Scarlett Johansson and Shia LeBoeuf. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

02-19-2006, 04:02 AM	#2
JohnnyLingo Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,175	What a coincidence... my wife and her brother were just discussing how much they like Manhattan Transfer. What school is your daughter at?

02-19-2006, 04:19 AM	#4
JohnnyLingo Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,175	That's cool... but you do know that if your son makes it big he's pretty much guaranteed to go crazy, don't you? There are few young actors\actresses I know of that have stayed grounded despite their fame... and the only actress I know if is Natalie Portman, which is part of the appeal.

02-19-2006, 04:27 AM	#5
MikeWaters Demiurge Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 36,365	JL, how have you managed to stay sane given the accolades and popularity you have acquired from cougarboard?

02-19-2006, 04:46 AM	#6
JohnnyLingo Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 2,175	Obviously I haven't. Given that random people like Hazzard are making pre-emptive strikes against me, I'm far more messed up than I realize.