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Creative Care Unit

What happens when you're a Creative-actor, singer, musician, dancer, etc.-you're over 40 and one day your body tells you that things are going to be different from now on? This podcast talks about those issues and all of the side ones that come along with being an aging Creative.

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Creative Care Unit Episode 36

Let's face it: if there's one thing that all Americans can agree on in this divided nation of ours is that the health care system in this country is awful. I'm Michael E. Russo, and I'll discuss my most recent dealings with the Health Care Industrial Complex in this episode of the Creative Care Unit.

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Creative Care Unit Episode 35

Most of the time, being an actor isn't different from any other job: you punch the clock and bring your lunch pail to work. Adn then there are moments like this: "I was working on an 80 million dollar budget movie in 1997, going out first class, had a limo in the hood, all that stuff. The drug dealers are like 'Yo, whassup man?' 'Ain't nothin', man, ain't nothin''" I'm Michael E. Russo, and we'll…

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Creative Care Unit Episode 34

It's truly amazing the sort of things you can learn about a person just by looking at their IMDb profile. "Two hundred and forty-five credits!" "Yeah, some of those are bogus. It's probably only 225. I'm the king of the indies, man" I'm Michael E. Russo, and we'll continue our conversaion with His Majesty, actor Brian Antony Wilson, in this episode of the Creative Care Unit.

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Creative Care Unit Episode 33

Our series, "Creatives That You Should Know About", continues with a true Philadephia legend, a gentleman who has excelled on stage, screen and television. I'm Michael E. Russo, and I'll be speaking to Brian Anthony Wilson in this episode of the Creative Care Unit.

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Creative Care Unit Episode 32

Every job has its hazards, and a composer is no exception. "I was writing a full score on 30 stave paper, and almost every note meeded a flat in front of it!" I'm Michael E. Russo, and we'll discuss this and more in this episode of the Creative Care Unit.

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Creative Care Unit Episode 31

In creating any kind of Art, compromises have to be made. In other words, "The creation of any work of art is a process of negotiation between the creator of the work and the work itself." I'm Michael E. Russo, and we'll go deeper in to that process with composer David Francis Urrows in this episode of the Creative Care Unit.

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Creative Care Unit Episode 30

When you're a Creative and you're just starting out on your artictic journey, who you study with makes all the difference in the world, Don't you agree? "In other fields it doesn't very much matter who your teachers were. I don't think bankers say 'Oh, I studied with So and So, or doctors coming out of the medical school make a point of explaining their tutorial lineage. But for people in the…

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Creative Care Unit Episode 29

Our occasional series, "Creatives That You Shoud Know About", features a man whose music I've enjoyed singing and conductiong for decades. I'm Michael E. Russo, and we'll be speaking to composer David Francis Urrows in this episode of the Creative Care Unit

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Creative Care Unit Episode 28

Of all the times that I've had to deal with the health care system, and all the time that I have spent in hospitals, there is one thing that I still do not understand: how hospitals do their billing. I'm Michael E. Russo, and we'll talk with someone who knows why hospitals do what they do in this episode of the Creative Care Unit.

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Creative Care Unit Episode 27

You know, after 21 years of marriage, you'd think we'd agree on everything, but..."Yeah, we had a Superman at one point." "Well, I never..." "We had a Spider-Man, we had a Batman..." I'm Michael E. Russo, and we'll continue our conversation with my long-suffering Wife Gail in this episode of the Creative Care Unit.

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