About Restaurants: Beware the salad, it is an art form in Hollywood and does not arrive in nice manageable bite size chunks.
About Cell Phones: If a cell phone is going to cut off mid-conversation it will cut off during the most important part of the conversation so say important stuff first.
About Parking Lots: The day you are running late for a meeting will be the day the studio decides to do parking lot construction so leave early.
About Addresses: Confirm addresses before you leave for a meeting, it is no fun arriving at an abandoned office because the person you are meeting thought you knew he moved across town.
About Cancelling: You will not get points for showing up the day the plumbing explodes, you will lose points for showing up soaked and frazzled so cancel.
About Printers: Never say "the script is printing send the messenger" within a printer's hearing range, the printer will immediately stress out and break.
About Dating: Never trust your guy writer pal's judgement about whom he should give your phone number to.
About Humor: Studio executives do not think it is funny when you say you have to get off the phone now Super Man is at the window.
About Clothes: Always lay your meeting clothes out the night before a meeting, things just do not go well when you discover your whites have all turned pink a half hour before.
About Hair: Do not walk past, let alone enter, a hair salon the day before a formal event unless you truly believe baseball caps are a nice accessory to black velvet.
*I wrote this for Movie Maker Magazine to run as a side bar alongside
an article about the book in March. Watch for it. (wink)
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