How to Succeed in Hollywood by Ted Baehr

Author:Ted Baehr
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936488650
Publisher: WND Books

In a follow up article entitled “Bitten by the Movie Bug” (Kiger), the Los Angeles Times listed the common delusional defenses of the investor seduced by Hollywood:

1. Denial: Keep telling yourself that you’re the exception to the rule, the outsider who can swim with the sharks.

2. Anger: When you’re in that inevitable meeting with backers who’ve lost faith in your leadership, go ahead and curse the unfairness of it all.

3. Bargaining: Find another naïf from the outside world and convince him that he’s smarter than you. Remember that even after Coca-Cola paid more than half a billion dollars for Columbia, it still was able to sell it to Sony for many times that amount.

4. Depression: It’s OK to feel a little down in the dumps. Indulge yourself. After Howard Hughes lost RKO, he retreated to a rented studio for four months and sat around naked, watching movies for days without sleep, gobbling junk food and befouling the floor like a caged animal.

5. Acceptance: Hire a ghostwriter to do a defensive memoir. Even if nobody is willing to pay $22.95 to read it, you’ll feel much better.

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