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Please stick to acting

Dear Hollywood actors and actresses,

Remember what has gained you your millions and your fame. It is not by playing yourself, which is the first clue that you should shut your mouth when you’re doing your own scripting.

You have made your life by playing other people. Someone wrote your lines for you. A director told you how to emote in various scenes.

Others have dressed you, both for in front of and behind the camera. The fact that you are good at playing other people when someone has literally created that character for you, does not mean you are good at playing yourself.

Yet you all think that you are some kind of political, social and cultural savant.

We have enjoyed many of you playing others. We don’t enjoy, nor do we pay, for you to play yourself.

So please, please, stop with your nonsensical opinions on all matters. We really don’t care, and it’s never a performance we enjoy.

Timothy Westhoff

Sugar Notch

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