RSS Feed (xml)While at ICM, there was the variety of flowers, wine, massages that accompanied various unsolicited submissions... numbering into the $100's of buckaroos shelled out just so an agent *might* take notice of their script, short or headshot.
One crazy with a TERRIBLE script sent ME a huge floral arrangement for just taking her call and offering her a suggestion that she might try finding a manager before approaching an agent.
My favorite one was this guy whom I'd talked to for a while over a lunch break offering up suggestions about how to get people to read his script & he dubbed me the only nice person in Hollywood & cleverly sent me a Starbucks Gift Card "To help me stay up reading all the OTHER horrible scripts" a coffee mug "To drink said coffee out of" and wrapped it up all in pages of his script.
But my boss... she might have just taken the cake. A writer/director who she'd met with a while ago, a USC film student with a great short JUST SENT HER A BRAND NEW IPOD NANO. To say thank you for being a nice person.
And it kind of worked... after the initial shock, she was like well now I guess I HAVE to hire him on something & it certainly got my attention. $200 attention grabber. Niice.
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