The Hollywood Assistants Handbook: 86 Rules for Aspiring Power Players
Are you young, eager, smart, and heading off to LA to
make it big in the entertainment business? Time for a
reality check: Leave your diploma at home, put your grandiose
dreams on hold (where hopefully they'll get tired and
hang up), and start by repeating the first rule of the
industry: Who you work for is more important than who
you are. Then leapfrog over everyone else by reading The
Hollywood Assistants Handbook.
Written by two very sharp and successful assistants
to HPPs (Hollywood Power Players), here are 86 lessons
packed with a combination of blunt truth, insider humor,
and juicy secrets that explain the unwritten rules of
how to get a foot in the door and make all the right
moves as you climb to the top. Here are the minimum-wage
jobs that will put you in the path of HPPs. An annotated
resume roundup. The clubs to frequent and the cocktails
to order. Movies to watch and books to read (it's called
homework). Dressing do's and don'ts. How to get on the
Free List. A lineup of boss genres—the Horror Show,
the Romantic Comedy, Mr. Action—and how to dodge
the tirades that will soon be hurled your way, along
with the proper outlets for venting. Plus, the ins and
outs of your most important tool, the telephone—when
to listen in (always!), who to put through and who to
put off, and your new best friend forever, the Plantronics
CS70 cordless headset.
With its hilariously snarky tone—the gate-keeping
quiz is "How to Tell if You're a Moron Who Should
Pack Up the Corolla and Move Back Home"—The
Hollywood Assistants Handbook is as baldly entertaining
for everyone who loves reading about Hollywood as it
is indispensably practical for the job-seeker.
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