You Can't Make This Script Up
A screenwriting and entertainment podcast by and for people who are making it up as they go. Join hosts Caitlin Gallo and Brittany Harris as they navigate the ins and outs of writing in Hollywood.
You Can't Make This Script Up
I Survived: Being a Hollywood Assistant
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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!*