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Here is how Ticketmaster opaquely explains it: “In some instances, events on our platform may have tickets that are ‘market-priced,’ so ticket and fee prices may adjust over time based on demand. This has been likened to Uber’s surge pricing, which fluctuates based on demand and a raft of other unclear metrics. The way that dynamic pricing works is that for many seats in a venue, there is no longer really a “face value” price of a ticket, and that prices for many events are now as high as people are willing to pay, as determined by an algorithm. Now, with Springsteen’s cooperation, Ticketmaster has to a large extent cut out ticket resellers by simply using a “dynamic pricing” algorithm to increase prices-for everyone-to such astronomical levels that ticket reselling is largely not worth the risk and the price of going to a popular show is so high that many people are simply priced out. In 2009, Springsteen was mad that Ticketmaster was redirecting customers to ticket resellers.

We will continue to do our utmost now and in the future to make sure that these practices are permanently curtailed on our tours.” In the blistering letter, Springsteen said that redirecting fans to ticket resellers was an “abuse of our fans and our trust by Ticketmaster has made us as furious as it has made many of you. Fans were confused, thinking they were still buying “face value” tickets from Ticketmaster, only now the prices for the best tickets-with a face value that maxed out at $98 in New Jersey, for example-were selling for hundreds of dollars. At the time, his tickets had gone on sale, sold out almost instantly, and Ticketmaster began automatically redirecting fans to a ticket resale site called TicketsNow, which Ticketmaster also owned. To understand how we got here, it’s useful to go back to 2009, when Bruce Springsteen wrote an open letter apologizing to his fans for the experience they had trying to buy his tickets on Ticketmaster. Just don’t blink or you may miss him…not blinking.It is arguably also the case that, in trying to “fight” ticket brokers (called “scalpers” by many), Ticketmaster has done something that is very lucrative for itself and for artists, but also worse for the average fan: It has simply jacked up ticket prices for certain high-profile events to a level where all tickets are more-or-less priced at the maximum level that the secondary market would normally bear. To this day, Caine says he “never blinks shooting a scene.” So next time you’re watching him, pay extra attention to his eyes. So that’s the extent of my acting training.” Now watch what I do, now, watch this… did you see what I just did?’ And I swear, there is absolutely nothing going on, the guy is doing exactly nothing. So what you want to do is stare like this, stare at the other person’s eye. Michael Caine stands there, he’s teaching a class, and he says something like, ‘One of the things I like to do is, if it’s a closeup shot, I don’t blink, because if I blink it weakens me. Have you ever seen that? It’s the funniest f*cking thing you ever saw. The only thing I did was, I got ahold of Michael Caine’s acting tape. Stern talked about it once on his show, and when asked about his prep, he said this: One person who watched it was Howard Stern, while he was prepping his acting debut in 1997’s Private Parts. In 1987, he even recorded an hour-long how-to called Michael Caine: Acting in Film, in which he imparted his two-time Oscar-winning knowledge onto anyone with a VHS (or Beta) player. I used to frighten the life out of people.”īut he kept the approach up, at least when he’s doing movies.

“People around me, my mother and everybody, thought I had gone nuts,” Caine said. You must never blink.” But he took that a bit too literally, saying he spent the “next eight years” of his life “ around trying not to blink.”Įventually going about never closing his eyes earned him the nickname “Snake Eyes.” One idea he took from the tome was that, in his words, “Don’t blink.

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Any actor will tell you acting in a movie is very different from acting on a stage rather than go big for an audience that’s far away, you have to go small for a camera that may be right in your face. And then he took things rather a bit far.Ĭaine said his younger self got his hands on a book called Teach Yourself Film Acting. In a new interview with The Mirror ( as caught by The AV Club), the two-time Oscar-winner revealed that as an aspiring thespian, he read that one of the secrets of screen acting was not blinking. But when he was younger, he was a bit…intense. The occasional easily lampooned shoutiness aside, Michael Caine has long been one of the most relaxed actors in the movies.

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