Colorful Response
Just over a week ago, I related an anecdote about the producer’s assistant indirectly checking that the intern was doing her job correctly. A lot of people took exception to the assistant’s methods. Final Girl’s comment was typical: What a passive agressive moron. I hate people. I have to admit, this surprised me. At the […]
Links, Links, and More Links
I received a very lovely email today, from Heather of Howcast.com: Your blog makes me laugh, and reminds me why I ran far from set work…It’s not easy! Although, the “There’s Always Someone Below You” post made me happy….it’s *not* easy, but it has its rewards for sure. Anyway, I figure as a PA, you […]
Been a While
Before you ask, yes, I know it’s been a long time since I wrote a post. When one of these dry stretches occur, you can rest assured that I am either A) unemployed, and thus have nothing to write about, or B) so very employed that I am too busy to write any posts. I […]
Mail Bag
I haven’t kept up with the ol’ mail bag like I should’ve. Time to play catch up. Rob writes: You had mentioned that you walked into an interview and impressed them despite wearing a t-shirt and jeans and being unshaven. You got the job. Do you have any tips on how to ace an interview? […]
Happy Anniversary!
I started this blog one year ago., and it’s time for a little reflection, I think. My goal was to write something, every day, even if it was just a silly story on a blog. I haven’t posted every single day, but as this is my 243rd post out of 261 possible weekdays, I came […]
The Inverse Relationship of Seriousness and Gravity
I met a former Las Vegas police officer, and he told me the following story: We got a call for a suicide. Self-inflicted gunshot to the head. You could see the victim from the front door. He was sitting at the kitchen table, kinda in profile. The entry wound was on his temple. The gun […]
My Opinion
This morning, I was surprised to find an e-mail with the subject line, “P.a. Bootcamp.” There were also several new replies to my post from a few weeks ago regarding the PA Bootcamp. “pa bootcamp staff” writes: Can we ask you why you are slamming our services when you haven’t attend camp yourself and […]
Still Alive
I received a lovely e-mail from Michael over at Hollywood Juicer: Dude, it’s ten days since you last posted. Not that I mean to pressure you (being barely able one post a week, this pot will not hurl accusations of “blackness” towards any kettle at all), but when someone who typically puts up something four […]
30 Rock Reconsidered
I got an unusually large number of comments on my 30 Rock post a couple weeks ago, so I thought I should respond. First of all, I grant that me watching a Hollywood show is like a geologist watching The Core. I just can’t help noticing all the details they get wrong. Eric said: I […]
Networking
After working in low budget film for a number of years, I started running into people I’d worked with before. At a certain point, I realized this was a bad sign. As they say, you’re the average of the five people closest to you. Professionally, the five people closest to me were all working on […]
Faking It
I went to a screening of Frost/Nixon, yesterday. (If you’re not aware of Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s screening series, you should totally sign up.) Good movie, but not half as entertaining as the gaggle of film students sitting next to me. They were arguing over pointless trivia (“Was Temple of Doom the first PG-13 movie?”) and […]
Practical Jokes
There’s a lot of downtime on a film set. Sometimes you play games. Sometimes you play practical jokes. Here are some of my favorites– A friend of mine had one of those screensavers that plays a slideshow of pictures from your computer. Naturally, he chose a file that consisted mostly of Rebecca Romijn in a […]