Usedcarsalesman has seen a lot of entertainment-related reality shows lately, such as 90 Days in Hollywood and Unscripted (by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh) . Since he's living in Studio City, Ca. ad is basically surrounded by the entertainment industry on a daily basis, he can attest that said shows are pretty true-to-life. And that is a little disconcerting for him.
You see, Usedcarsalesman traveled all the way to Los Angeles, Ca. from the Washington, D.C. metro area a couple of years ago to work on the talent-side of the entertainment industry. And until the advent of the aforementioned reality shows, he thought that you could only really know the entertainment industry by living and working in the entertainment industry.
You see, Usedcarsalesman traveled all the way to Los Angeles, Ca. from the Washington, D.C. metro area a couple of years ago to work on the talent-side of the entertainment industry. And until the advent of the aforementioned reality shows, he thought that you could only really know the entertainment industry by living and working in the entertainment industry.
Now, however, you can see what Hollywood casting sessions, auditions, and classes are really like and what actors go through in Hollywood. And you can do it from the comfort of your own home in Charlottesville, Va. or Bridgeport, Mass. This has left Usedcarsalesman -- already in L.A. -- feeling like he missed an a cost-effective opportunity to "look-before-leaping" (that is, witness life in the entertainment business before actually moving to Hollywood).
Lately he's been belly-aching, approaching these reality shows like the General Turgidson character approached the Russians visiting to the war room in Dr. Strangelove: "Mr. President, they'll see everything, they'll see the big board!". However, in this case it's: "why is Hollywood doing Usedcarsalesman such a disservice and letting potential newcomers get this information that he didn't get untl he moved to L.A.? After all, actors are supposed to come to Hollywood and learn about professional casting sessions and auditions the hard way!"
Usedcarsalesman got over it pretty quickly. But with all of the aforementioned in mind he still thinks you might want to ponder the following questions:
- With Hollywood a relatively open-book now, will greater or fewer actors undertake the pilgrimage to "Mecca" in SoCal (Hollywood)?
- Knowing how Hollywood operates, will these people even bother to leave home in the first place or will they copy the practices and behaviors they see in the entertainment-themed reality-shows and make/act in their own films?
Who knows? With all of the inside information about the entertainment industry out there now, why would an artist go to Hollywood when he could act in or direct films on his home turf, not look like too much of an amateurs thanks to exposure to entertainment-based reality television, and then submit his home-made films on-line to Hollywood decision-makers for marketing and distribution?
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