A Face?
"You've GOT to be famous!"
"Why?"
"It's your attitude- totally celebrity! Are you a model?"
"I am five-two..."
"Actress?"
"Soon..."
My brief conversation with a cute but superficial SoBe-ite.
I love going to the cafes in South Beach and people-watching while lunching al fresco. If ever there were a 'wanna-be seen' atmosphere en verite, it is here.
"I'm saving up to move to LA so my career can REALLY take off!", a pretty young woman admits after being complimented by the picture-cup guy on her photogenic face. He encourages her by adding, "You are so pretty, I'm sure you will be famous." She wants to be a slashie (model-slash-actress); I pray she has studied The System and has the foresight to work as something other than a waitress. So many young women believe 'discovery' is based on a face. There are alot of pretty FedEx deliverypersons and postal workers whose parents came to Hollywood with a dream and wound up married and working 'normal' jobs to raise a family.
My sporadic fantasies of being discovered center around a pivotal role in a community theatre production (luck); which leads to THE ROLE in THE INDIE FILM of the decade (talent); which goes mainstream and leads to a Stockard Channing-like career (bliss!). I love Stockard Channing! As I sit and sup, I see 'Gwyneth with a boob job'; a Latina Halle'; 'Kate (Beckinsale)as a comic-book-red redhead'; and three 'Heidi clones with brazilian accents' and I wonder:
'Can they make it on a face?'
If that were so, with all the stars on vaca' here at any given time, why aren't there cameras fighting to film here with the 'faces' we have here? I still recall when multi-culti aesthetics were the must-have of fashion, film and beauty. Many on my mother's side of the family were in demand! Are there still young women who believe, after that 'revolution' of multi-culturalism, that they can make it through the door just with a look? Granted Leelee Sobieski bares a strange resemblance to Helen Hunt; and sometimes Alexis Bledel resembles Reese Witherspoon as a brunette, but one doubts very seriously that they are garnering roles on 'a look'. And 'pretty girl in the film' is no longer a career-maker. I raise my brow as I raise my glass and think a silent prayer...
'Thank GOD I only look like ME.'
"Why?"
"It's your attitude- totally celebrity! Are you a model?"
"I am five-two..."
"Actress?"
"Soon..."
My brief conversation with a cute but superficial SoBe-ite.
I love going to the cafes in South Beach and people-watching while lunching al fresco. If ever there were a 'wanna-be seen' atmosphere en verite, it is here.
"I'm saving up to move to LA so my career can REALLY take off!", a pretty young woman admits after being complimented by the picture-cup guy on her photogenic face. He encourages her by adding, "You are so pretty, I'm sure you will be famous." She wants to be a slashie (model-slash-actress); I pray she has studied The System and has the foresight to work as something other than a waitress. So many young women believe 'discovery' is based on a face. There are alot of pretty FedEx deliverypersons and postal workers whose parents came to Hollywood with a dream and wound up married and working 'normal' jobs to raise a family.
My sporadic fantasies of being discovered center around a pivotal role in a community theatre production (luck); which leads to THE ROLE in THE INDIE FILM of the decade (talent); which goes mainstream and leads to a Stockard Channing-like career (bliss!). I love Stockard Channing! As I sit and sup, I see 'Gwyneth with a boob job'; a Latina Halle'; 'Kate (Beckinsale)as a comic-book-red redhead'; and three 'Heidi clones with brazilian accents' and I wonder:
'Can they make it on a face?'
If that were so, with all the stars on vaca' here at any given time, why aren't there cameras fighting to film here with the 'faces' we have here? I still recall when multi-culti aesthetics were the must-have of fashion, film and beauty. Many on my mother's side of the family were in demand! Are there still young women who believe, after that 'revolution' of multi-culturalism, that they can make it through the door just with a look? Granted Leelee Sobieski bares a strange resemblance to Helen Hunt; and sometimes Alexis Bledel resembles Reese Witherspoon as a brunette, but one doubts very seriously that they are garnering roles on 'a look'. And 'pretty girl in the film' is no longer a career-maker. I raise my brow as I raise my glass and think a silent prayer...
'Thank GOD I only look like ME.'
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