Networking gets you work
Yes it does. I personally hate networking. The kind where you do lunch or drinks and you
kiss their ass and suck up, in hopes that they will get you work. Pathetic.
This is a different tale.
There's this photo-developing place that I go to in the valley, Half Hour Photo. Like one
hour isn't fast enough for, you need the pictures FAST...ASAP means half hour. What's next?
Ten-minute photo? They have those Polaroid cameras, but you still have to wave the picture
around for a few minutes. Anyways...
I had a bunch of undeveloped rolls and bought them to this guy. Let's call him Papi. Papi
and I started talking and I mentioned that I was hustling in the entertainment business.
Now this place is like one of those shops with all these pictures of famous people all over
the wall. They're not just PR shots, but candid family shots. Papi pointed out this picture
of a hot, I mean I'll poke your eyes out with a dull spoon hot, girl.
She's only 14 years old. I say your wife better be beautiful cause she's frickin HOT, thank
god.
Jump to a month later. Papi and I are good buddies now. He lets me read one of his scripts,
which wasn't too bad but lots of grammatical errors and formatting errors. Papi confides
in me that He's not happy with his daughter's agent. The girl is hot and only gone out to
4 auditions in 4 months.
I informed him that I'm interning for this well-connected Manager in Beverly Hills. Papi
hooks me up with her Headshot/Resume.
I drop off her pictures to the assistant and she loves the girl. She can't believe Papi's
daughter is only 14.
I guess if you're young and beautiful in Hollywood, you're a gold mine.
I go back to Papi and tell him the Manager's assistant wants to set up a meeting. Papi
loves the news.
So Papi tells me about some of his famous clients that come in all the time. Some of
them have been coming to him for 10 years.
One of his clients is the husband of a very famous Model turned Actress. If I told you her
name, you would say, oh yeah, I know her. Papi is so grateful that he offers to ask the
client if he'd read one of my scripts.
A week later, Papi phones me and tells me the client is traveling out of the country and
wants to read the script.
From all of those little things to this - the famous husband of the very famous Model turned
Actress is reading Above Paradise. Who would've thought it so?
Updates
Other than Papi and I hanging out, there's nothing much to talk about. I am reading "The Art
of Happiness" by the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler. It's pretty interesting.
I am turning another year older coming this Monday. You guys don't care. Nobody cares.
Later
Written by Charlie Cheng
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