Good Things Happening to Good People

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Living in Gotham it is easy to run into, meet and hang out with actors -- often without trying. Some of the better experiences doing so had to do with the cast of OZ and of those among the best were those with Kirk Acevedo (Alvarez). Besides knowing how to have a good time, Acevedo is one of the more intelligent actors on the planet who takes what he does seriously without taking himself too seriously. An honest assessment of anything he's been involved in was usually forthcoming as well as an honest asessment of his own participation.

Anyone who knows what being an actor is all about knows how tenuous and fragile a long term job in the field can be. Those who manage stability do so by luck or hard work or being very talented: sometimes all of the above. When one of the good ones, a hard working, talented actor, gets a movie and contract role on a what promises to be a very good television series, it restores faith in what can be a brutal and cold business.




Kudos to Kirk Acevedo for his role in Invincible as well as his role in NBC's Black Donnelys, January replacement for ER when it goes on hiatus in 2007.



The Saints be praised.

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