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MY HOLLYWOOD STORY
(part I)
By Claudia Wilcox (not my real
name) I was an only
child. I was shy around other children. It was important to me to be
liked by them. Maybe it was too important.
Instead of playing with other children, I
would play in my room alone. One of my favorite games was Hollywood. I
would put one of my parents' old 45 rpm records on the record player and
stand on my toy chest (an old footlocker) and sing and dance and
sometimes just talk to the audience I imagined watching me. I imagined
that everyone loved me.
I guess that's why I ended up here as an
adult - in Hollywood.
One of the first things I noticed about
Hollywood is that you can never tell who is "somebody". Everywhere else
you can tell when people are "somebody" just by their appearance. In
Hollywood, almost everyone is so desperate to be "somebody" that they
look like they are somebody.
Except, of course, the people who are
somebody - they know they're somebody so it doesn't matter if
anyone else knows it or not. Then you have to guess who is not trying
to look like "somebody" and there are a lot of nobodies who look like
that too. It can be
very confusing sometimes.
I've found the best approach is to be nice
to everybody. You never know who will turn out to be somebody. |
