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To: Rambi who wrote (52762)	6/29/2000 5:56:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

There are so many things in life that college won't help at all, IMO, or anyway, not much. Acting, writing, fine art, these are best learned from practicing professionals, not academics, unless that academic also happens to be a practicing professional. And then you also must learn by doing. Has Ammo ever considered law? It's a great profession for people who don't know what they want to be when they grow up. You'd be surprised how many people drift into law because they didn't know what else to do. With a talent for acting, he may want to consider trial law. The very best trial lawyers I have ever seen are right-brained lateral thinkers who slouch, keep their shoes by the door, have a hard time following rules, but are able to pull it all together miraculously when it's show-time. It helps to have a love of justice and an ability to sit on your duff for hours at a time reading.

To: Rambi who wrote (52762)	6/30/2000 1:37:51 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

My guess is that Ammo needs to find a special world. One of my old bosses (in labor relations) was an undergraduate theatre major at Bennington college. He was the only boy there. They had to have a male lead for their theatre workshop and they gave him a free education. I understand he got a lot of other free stuff too. My favorite student assistant at UH was a theatre major. He starred in three full length Chinese movies while he was an undergraduate. He was fluent in Spanish (born in Panama) and a mulatto. Only spoke two Chinese words (Gung Ho). His director in two of them was world famous and won a Cannes festival awards. He won an international (professional) acting award as a junior. He was one of the most noble looking men I have ever known. Women thought he was beautiful. When he graduated he moved to Los Angeles and started showing up at casting calls. Acting is a very hard life. Everything he knows of acting he learned at UH Manoa Theater Department. Another of my former business students is the only Indonesian puppet theater master who isn't Indonesian in the world. We have the world's best (only?) Kabuki outside of Japan and our Chinese Opera Company has performed in Beijing and Shanghai to great applause. I think Ammo might use a wanderjahr. When my youngest son couldn't get into a college that he could respect, he took off for Europe eating in student restaurants, begging, and sleeping on the streets. He was rescued very sick off the pavement in Place Notre Dame de Paris by a beautiful young woman who cured him by her pure love. Very romantic! Later he went to a lot of universities (SUNY Albany, Santa Cruz, several community colleges, and finally graduated with all A's at Berkeley (which he thought was the pits). There are lots of things to do. Fortunately, you have an immense amount of money, but if economy were a goal UH (which had excellent marine biology as well as theatre and music) only costs $9,500 T&F for the first year. Establish residence and it gets much cheaper in subsequent years -- PLUS -- I've got a three room apartment downstairs with three working sets of drums and three bands that will need a drummer when my number two kid goes off to grad school. (It comes with an old silver BMW). I probably couldn't sleep anyway without the 3 am drumming. Ammo will have to be very hot. Diving. Hang gliding. Does he have good pecs? Regular tryouts for Hasselhoff replacements.