Showing posts with label pilot season. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pilot season. Show all posts

1.07.2013

Casting...It Isn't Just for Stage & Screen


Los Angeles is rife with issues all around casting. If someone runs into a casting director at a party, they will desperately attempt to bed them. If an actor is typecast, they will desperately attempt to reinvent themselves. If one makes it into a cast, they will desperately attempt to make it past pilot season. If one is never cast, they will desperately moan that they are outcasts.

Well guess what L.A.? There are more to casts than what you see on stage and screen. There are casts that don't fill us with stress, pride or resentment. In fact, they will make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. Animals with casts!






7.11.2009

Darwin Dating

It's always been survival of the fittest in Los Angeles. If you're not a size six or below, forget the boutiques of Sunset Plaza. If your acting career hasn't made it past pilot season, good luck getting into The Roosevelt on the weekend.

While plastic surgeons and personal trainers work to eliminate the flaws in all of us, competing for decent men in a town filled swimsuit models and starlets can feel like a blood sport. That's where Darwin Dating comes in.

This site officially states: Darwin Dating was created exclusively for beautiful, desirable people. Our strict rules and natural selection process ensures all our members have winning looks. Will you make the cut? To determine whether or not you "make the cut" the community grades your looks on a scale. The not-so-clever verbiage is almost embarrassing. "Ass-like or Awesome?" are on opposite ends of the scale. Yes, I just said "ass-like."

Ironically, I thought the type of people to use the term "ass-like" would be weeded out during the natural selection process. But many people have completely disregarded Darwin's emphasis on intelligence. Apparently, smarts don't keep you going - big boobies do. It's survival of the hottest. You can be so stupid that you need a helmet for when you smack into walls, but if you're cute, people will line up to help you breed those gorgeous, degenerate genes.