According to a statistic I thought sounded great and didn’t bother to verify, of the annual one million freshly minted Los Angeles transplants looking for entry into the entertainment business, only 5,000 stick it out past year one. We’re talking about point-five-percent — only half a percent stay in Los Angeles past their first year. [...]
You see yourself a mover/shaker? You going to be lining up deals and inking contracts? Then get used to waiting. Your life isn’t a half-hour scripted series – no roll credits, scroll to next episode, cue theme music, and bingo-bango! the deal be done, chico, and you’re skipping to the bank. Two ways to attack [...]
“You can’t be an assistant and a writer,” Teddy said. Why? “None of the assistants at the agency want to be actors or writers,” Teddy said. “They wouldn’t have time to do both. It’s just not done.” He forgot. That every day in Los Angeles was another day someone back home said wouldn’t be done. [...]
Line ‘em up. Knock ‘em down. It’s one method in the madness. Probably not a good one: sawed-off shotgun, Super-C Spread Gun, see-what-sticks spaghetti-style method. Like Terry Rossio wrote in the essay, Breaking the Ice, however: “Breaking into the film business is not a problem that resolves itself through a single answer or path. It’s [...]
He glanced at the resume. Read it aloud, a clear as Ever indication this was time primero he laid eyeball to C.V. ink. “Shogun Sushi,” mumble mumble, “Rutgers University,” mumble mumble, then stopped. Where they always stopped. Asked what they always asked. “What’d you do for Maxim Magazine?” Eric offered one takeaway, other than his [...]
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Chris moved from NY to Los Angeles to build his entertainment background and create content. He writes about that here. [more...]
