How To Find Just About Anyone in Hollywood
Every once in a while, I get a strange email like this: Hello! We have a strange research question for Anonymous Productions Assistant’s Blog! I am helping a friend research and find pizza boxes for his Guinness Book of World Record Collection of pizza boxes. (He’s amazing – Scott Wiener – http://www.scottspizzatours.com/projects/pizzaboxes) He’s been traveling […]
Emmy Award-Nominated Production Assistant
Unlikely some people, I love Christmas. I enjoy dressing up on Halloween. I even think Valentine’s Day can be sweet. But I fucking hate April Fools Day. Everything about today, from fake news stories to ridiculous fake products. Even the movie is fucking terrible. Whatever the April equivalent of “Bah, humbug” is, I’m saying that. […]
Don’t Be a Doormat
Something I neglected to mention in yesterday’s post— There must be, unfortunately, a limit to a PA’s kindness. Certain departments (I’m just gonna come right out and say it’s usually costumes) like to take advantage of friendly production assistants, if you’re not careful. For instance, sometimes mail gets delivered to the production office, rather than the department […]