Renowned psychotherapist and career counselor Linda Buzzell is the expert in knowing how to create and develop a career in Hollywood. With this book, she shows you how to look at your personality, your strengths, your weaknesses, your special skills, and your talents in order to target your personal goals and maximize your career success. She then explains all the jobs in Hollywood and how to find them, get them, and advance through each stage in your career. How To Make It in Hollywood includes everything you need to know about agents, managers, lawyers, the casting couch, chutzpah, schmoozing, networking, Godfather Calls, rhino skin, Power Rolodexes, handling rejection, constant unemployment, and keeping yourself on the track to your dreams when real life keeps telling you to give it all up and move back to Cincinnati!

author: Linda Buzzell binding: Paperback

This celebrated survival guide for actors is still considered "the Bible of the Biz"-the most comprehensive book on the business of acting, informed by an inside view of how casting decisions are actually made-and it has now been updated and expanded to cover new on-line ways actors can promote their picture, rsum and video clips; interviewing and auditioning tips for the new crop of young actors; enhancing one's image; and finding jobs in emerging markets. Of course, the book still draws from dozens of industry professionals for authoritative advice on financial survival, networking, meeting agents and casting directors, the performing unions, selecting a wardrobe, studying a role-all the essential information actors have steadily relied on since 1987.

author: Mari Henry Lynne Rogers binding: Paperback

Actors must think of themselves as products to be sold because show business is about making money: art is extra. For beginning and veteran actors in big cities or small towns, this new, expanded 5th Edition offers organized nuts and bolts information vital to success: * how to make yourself more saleable to casting people, agents, producers and directors * how to take your career in your own hands with courage and vision * how to get a realistic perspective on the business * how to keep your humor and your sanity * and new thoughts on the wisdom of having a manager, internet job resources, showbiz internships and international job possibilities and study.

author: K. Callan binding: Paperback