Chapter 1 Fade in On Reality
I don’t take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
—Bette Davis
There’s a Los Angeles radio station I occasionally listen to, and a bumper message they used to play exclaimed: “Welcome to Hollywood! What’s your dream?” It’s no secret that scores of people move to this town every day, as they do New York, Atlanta and other entertainment and film centers, to try to break into the “biz,” to be discovered, to attend film school, to get an agent, to perform, to sell a script, to be seen, to be the one who discovers talent, to network, to land a great job, to find the right portal that’s going to transport them to the fantasy world they’ve been dreaming of. Some make it; many more don’t. ...
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