How to Make it in Hollywood - Second Edition

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!

About the author

Linda Buzzell has worked as a production company vice president at Columbia and Lorimar, a development executive for Jacques Cousteau, and an associate producer of documentaries for ABC and PBS. As the founder and director of the Entertainment Industry Career Institute, she has helped thousands of people in the entertainment industry with both personal and professional issues. She teaches at the American Film Institute and lives in California.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Buzzell, Buzzell Linda
• Publisher: It Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.1996
• EAN: 9780062732439
• ISBN: 978-0-06-273243-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment, PERFORMING ARTS / Acting & Auditioning, Film, TV and Radio industries, PERFORMING ARTS: Film & Video / Reference, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Leadership, PERFORMING ARTS: Television / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Careers / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Motivational, ART: Film & Video, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Industries / Entertainment