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There's this service that casting directors, agents and managers all use in Hollywood. It's
called a breakdown service. Casting people submit what they need in terms of actors to this
service and agents and managers subscribe to it.
I checked the breakdowns for last week and there were three roles for Asians. THREE. I wish
I knew how many Asian actors there are... so I can at least know the odds. Regardless, it's
still pretty awful odds. Like starving dogs fighting for one piece of meat.
Nothing's much happened these past two weeks. I've been trying to find a server job since
I got back. Nothing. No one is hiring... well they are but they're not hiring servers. One
place offered me a manager's position and another offered a bussing position. Both at
different end of the spectrum and neither will do.
You know you think you'll relax and do nothing for a couple of weeks... it gets really boring
really fast. When you're always working and than you're not, you sit around with your thumb
in your ass.
Hopefully next week will bring a slew of auditions and acting work.
As for the writing side, a literary manager read Above Paradise and liked it but she
was going off to production (she decided to change her profession) and couldn't help us.
Move along...
It goes in cycles. Sometimes the acting is going well and sometimes the writing is going
well. I'm just sick of dealing with the business of writing. So I'm putting all my energy
into getting acting work. The money is easier and pays quickly.
Better Luck Tomorrow
A movie directed and co-wrote by Justin Lin. I haven't personally seen it but lots of
American critics are raving about it. Check it out. It's in limited release right now and
will go wide this week. The movie won the best film award at Sundance and got picked up by
MTV. If you're got MTV, you've seen the commercials.
It's about good and studious Asians gone bad. Support your fellow Asians and go see it.
Networking and girls
I was at this wrap party in Hollywood the other night and realized that everyone was talking
about the film business.
Do you guys out there like networking? I don't care for it. If you want to work with someone,
call them up. These networking parties bore the life out of me. It's not enough to work in
Hollywood, you have to live and breathe it every waking moment.
The girls are pretty. That was the only good point of the night.
Later on that night, a few of us made it to Hollywood Canteen. It's a bar/restaurant on the
corner of Romaine and Seward, I think. Anyways, it's owned by this Korean chick and she might
be the reason why there were so many Asians in that bar.
Does that happen? Do you guys frequent an establishment because an Asian owns it?
The Asian women there were smoking hot; beautiful, thin and sexy but in an American kind
of way. I wrote last week how there's no beautiful Asian women here in the states.
Well, let be explain myself. If you compare Asian women in Asia to Asian women in America,
the Asians in Asia are prettier. What I mean is if you have an American standard of taste,
you're going to like Asians in American. But when you compare them together, they are
prettier in Asia.
All the Asians in America dress like Americans. It just doesn't fit.
I don't know.. maybe I'm old-fashion and getting old. I'll shut up now.
See ya in two weeks.
Written by Charlie Cheng
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