age before beauty
It is one of those ethereal fog nights in Seattle. The fog just came down, it was not there, then it was. The street lights outside are glowey. And even this police car that went screaming by sirens yelling was muted. I was hoping it was the police car engine making muted grinding noise too and not another car the police car was chasing. Hello, O.J. flight through Belltown. Yipes.
But they are gone now and it is quiet. And I am in my floating room of windows looking at fog and night and romantified street lights in the dark.
I am so in love with night.
I have been knocking myself out on this Three Pages contest. This is a lot of work. Why didn't anyone tell me it was this much work? Jeez!
Okay, just kidding. I do not mind. If I can shove three people through doors who otherwise would have to stand outside and knock I do not know how long, that is a good cause. When I won the Nicholl, Gale Hurd was at the party after and I said, "I have been trying for two years to get read at your company." And she said, "Is it really that hard?"
People inside do not know.
But tonight's thought is something else. Tonight's thought is --
AGE BEFORE BEAUTY
There is this kid on an internet bulletin board I visit. He is conducting a survey. He sent a script to this management company called Foursight Entertainment. And then he waited.
And waited.
And waited.
Then he called.
Someone told him his script was being read.
And then he waited.
Finally --
He started conducting this survey. It has been going on now a few weeks on the internet. So far he can not find one person who has heard word back from Foursight. A lot of people have submitted material. Those people are easy to find. But no one has heard back. Hmmm.
There was a big spread on Foursight in the premiere hard copy issue of ScreenTalk. I adore ScreenTalk. It think it is the noblest publishing endeavor for screenwriters since Scenario. But boy. I was reading that interview thinking just, Hmmm.
See, the FourSight guys are four college students. Well all but one who I guess recently graduated. I think. That was not entirely clear in the interview. But, three college students, one recent grad, if I am getting this straight. And on general principle, I do not have anything against college students. I was a college student. There is just nothing wrong with college students. Unless --
They have no experience and are handling your career. Then I have to pause.
The interviewer asked Michael Lasker, the spokesman in the interview, if he thought his age was an advantage or disadvantage in the industry. ("The industry" is what people in Hollywood call what we do. We are self centered and to us other industries do not exist, just this one, so that is what we call it, "the industry.") Lasker said he thought it was an advantage. That "Hollywood feels that youth has a secret." That their only hindrance was --
Experience.
Um, well gee, no kidding, Mike.
Hollywood is aegist. Everyone in Hollywood knows this. But look, when college students form film "businesses" so they can get into the iFilm pro area on the internet (you do not get into the iFilm pro area if you say you are a college student, you have to say you are a "business" so that was smart but sheesh) and start representing themselves to writers as professionals who can help writers' careers and nobody blinks? And writers actually send them scripts? Even though at the very moment I am typing this some poor kid has been conducting an internet survey for weeks and can not find one single writer who has even gotten word back on a script? Like maybe the Foursight guys are right, being twenty is more qualification in Hollywood than job experience?
I get scared.
Where else in the world would that happen?
"Hello, your brain surgeon has no experience but he is twenty and youth is power so you do not mind do you?"
"Hello, your pilot today has never flown a 747 or really even a Cesna okay he has never been on a plane before but he is twenty and youth is power you do not mind do you?"
"Hello, the person negotiating your contracts and telling you how to run your career has never done that or even really seen it done but he got coffee for a producer one time and he is twenty and youth is power you do not mind do you?"
(And we wonder what happened at Chernobyl.)
Where else does that happen?
Nowhere else.
Nowhere else in the world.
That just does not happen.
And do you know why that just does not happen?
Because everywhere else in the world, age and experience are considered beneficial to doing a job and more important than being twenty and nowhere else in the world would anyone in their right mind be silly enough to say "Hey I have no experience but I am young and that is more important."
Love and Kisses,
That Adams Girl
PS: Okay Wednesday is blonde day. I did not beat New Year's because they have to cut too much previously colored hair off and my hair went on strike and stopped growing for winter but now it is just long enough and we took emergency back up photos for an interview just in case tragedy strikes but really I think this will be fun wish me luck.
PPS: WEDNESDAY NEWSFLASH SUCCESS AT SALON YAY! GO SEE
