There are six kinds of Hollywood currency. In no particular order, they are: Knowledge, relationships, quid pro quo, expertise, talent & cash Can you guess which one is least valuable? Talent is the least valuable. Hands down. Because without any of the others, it’s nearly impossible to get anywhere in the entertainment world. Think [...]
TOOTSIE is a movie about an actor, Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), who can’t get hired so he dresses up in drag and auditions for a soap opera as a woman. The woman, Dorothy Michaels, gets hired to play the part and creates a sensation as a strong female character on daytime TV, thus potentially trapping Michael in his life [...]
After writing the last post, I realized I might’ve given the impression that everyone who sticks with the pursuit until they have success at their dream job will actually “make it.” But eventually, people who don’t become paid writers, actor, directors, etc. after a certain amount of time (five years? fifteen years?) either drift into something else that makes them divert [...]
Dear YII, I am not a person who is in the “just graduated age group” but I am a person who wants nothing more than to be a working actress. I was wondering if your site will also be geared to people like me? I would like articles on how to audition, and still have survival work. I do [...]
Current situation: I’m very fortunate to have a part-part time job at Klean Bath & Body. My other “day job” is dancing. I was a professional ballerina for few years and had left for a while, but now I’m in rehearsals for a show called Astra von Berlifitzing to be performed at the Electric Lodge in Venice. Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri [...]
As this blog will serve as your guidebook to the world of entertainment, it is useful, I think, to know what qualities will serve you best as you embark (or continue) on a career path in the industry. 1. Humility- I debated how to order #1 and #2 and went this way because I have [...]
That’s the name of a movie and I use it facetiously but there is a question behind it… Do I have to be in Los Angeles to make it in the entertainment industry? What about New York? Austin? Minneapolis? Don’t they have their own entertainment communities? Detroit now has sound stages and New Orleans had [...]
College & degree: Loyola Marymount University, BA Communications Internship: Four months on a low budget feature as an unpaid editorial apprentice my senior year of college. Learned a LOT. Most Recent Job: VFX Producer on 2012 for director Rolland Emmerich. First Paying Job in the Entertainment Industry:Assistant editor on a 35mm Red Cross film in Spanish [...]
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind (click on book cover photo to purchase- affiliate link) is one of my favorite kinds of nonfiction. It’s a page-turning narrative about fascinating and talented people. And it features the story behind the creation of some of the most revered – and most would agree, best – movies [...]
They call that the first rule of showbiz but really it’s the first rule of life. You’re not going to tell dirty jokes to your grandma (unless you have that kind of grandma) and you don’t wear flip flops to traffic court (please). But also, in this day and age, it also means that if [...]
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