Someone's asked me if I don't think Brooke was too harsh and too strong in her opinions about options.
No.
A couple of weeks or months back I had a dream about Kevin Spacey that got me a little obsessed about him for a while. I found out that he was in the TV series Wiseguy for a while. Greg said it was one of his favorite TV shows, and he thought that Murder One got way too much credit for the stretching-a-plotline gimmick, when Wiseguy did it a while back. Stretching a plotline, Kevin Spacey, cops...what else could a girl ask for?
I discovered, through much intrepid detective work and the Internet, that WGN was going to start playing Wiseguy from the beginning at the end of September. Then I found out that our cable system at home didn't carry WGN any more, and then I found out that my new cable system in LA didn't carry it either. I heard that a lot of cable systems dropped WGN when it became a WB affiliate.
Then it turned out that the Palo Alto cable system still carried WGN. Bummer.
So I bought a huge pack of tapes at Price Club and asked Greg -- who, conveniently,
-- to tape it for me.
He sent me a couple of tapes already and I hadn't watched them yet. He sent me mail telling me that he was running out of tapes. So I sat down and started watching.
And watching. And watching.
Four episodes last night, another two or three tonight.
Despite the level of the Stephen J. Cannell production writing -- ranging from the stereotypical to the banal -- I am totally hooked on this show. And Kevin hasn't even shown up yet.
Help. Help.
I went to the production company again today to do some interning. My first job was to drop off a video and go to Samuel French. The late fee on the video was $30. I said, Why don't you just buy the video? Not how things are done, I guess.
I learned some about how projects are tracked, how writers are followed. I also learned how to break a Xerox machine (cool, huh?) and do data entry.
How I lived this far in my life without doing basic secretarial work I'll never know. God knows I was never grateful enough for not having done it before.
I told Kathryn, the girl I work with, that you never put how many words per minute you can type on a resume. She asked why not. I said, Because then you only get offered secretarial positions. How you advertise yourself makes a very big difference what you get hired for.
See also yesterday's discussion.