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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (87805)	6/23/2003 10:01:20 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hey! Being the complaining character in Airplane is great and your friend must have done very well. That is exactly the kind of life Ammo would love to achieve. Able to support himself doing what he loves. We were at a show in Dallas last year and one of the leads, an older man, listed a movie credit (appeared in some big movie with some big star) so we went home and rented the movie and he had two seconds in one scene where he was a nameless cameraman. You never even saw his face as it was behind a camera, and he certainly had no lines. But it was a movie with him in it and I guess that's what counts. A friend of Ammo's was the stand-in hands for a star in something. Just her hands. Does she list this on a resume as "My hands appeared in ..." So your friend was definitely on a higher level. My theory of cinematic success is that you go from earning 50 dollars for being an extra to nameless but real person with specific function, to being a character with a first name only, to having a whole name, which means you have really arrived. I am sorry your friend is no longer with us. This business is all about contacts. :) We have a delightful young cast in "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", the show I'm accompanying right now, several of whom are majoring in theatre or vocal performance. I was appalled yesterday when one advised another to go into Musical Theatre because "that's where the money is". Somehow I have always thought musicians and actors were the few remaining people not driven by the Financial Imperative.