You Can't Make This Script Up

I Survived: Being a Hollywood Assistant

January 29, 2021 Season 1 Episode 10
You Can't Make This Script Up
I Survived: Being a Hollywood Assistant
Show Notes

Few things scarier than working for rich, high-powered narcissists! (Recorded November 2020)

  • THR’s article on Hollywood assistants in the pandemic 
  • Personal anecdotes on being assistants in entertainment 
  • Luddite bosses, boomers, narcs - the works.  
  • Catholic, Jewish and Southern Baptist guilt.  
  • Hollywood is dead from Thanksgiving through New Years Day - just accept it! 
  • Vaccines! A new administration! The hope of 2021!
  • “No one wants to be first in Hollywood - they want to be second!”
  • Game of Thrones, the spinoff series, et all. 
  • What GOT houses do you think we are in? All will be revealed! (Take the quiz here.)
  • Roman and Jewel (2021 book by Dana L. Davis) - a YA novel that’s pitched as Romeo + Juliet meets Hamilton. 
  • Kiss Me Kate - Cole Porter’s 1948 musical and Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew
  • What a showmance?
  • MTV’s 2001 adaptation of Georges Bizet’s opera - “Carmen: A Hip Hopera” starring Beyonce Knowles
  • Alison Leiby’s Tweet - @AlisonLeiby “I'll say it: watching a movie on tv with commercials is GOOD.” and the ensuing discourse. 
  • AMC Network, The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Forrest Gump (1994)
  • Our shared, favorite national pastime: Mob Week also on AMC
  • PBS, Rick Steves and his pro-marijuana stance. 

*You might hear Caitlin frantically typing notes on her computer in the background - sorry!*