My Two Cents

Koza, if you're out there, this one's for you.

Back in college, a dear friend and I invented the fast-paced game "Expressions," in which one person calls out a specific situation (for example, you're taking a Sunday stroll through the park when you accidentally step on a squirrel), and the other person immediately shows the appropriate facial expression. Hilarity ensues.

Unbeknownst to us, we were being spied on.

In photographer Howard Schatz's new book, In Character: Actors Acting, actors were to communicate emotions for the camera based on complex story lines suggested by Schatz. Sound familiar? And I quote: "If you give an actor a scene, it's an 'I dare you.' It's like throwing a ball to a baseball player. They're going to catch it," he says, explaining why so many actors took him up on the challenge.

Shouldn't we get some sort of royalties for this?