January 7, 2009
What current Emmy award winning network show has a production assistant who does not do any work related to the production but still gets paid. Oh yes, they get paid by the production company for basically sitting around. Why? Well when the PA is not sitting around he is the drug dealer of choice for about ten of the cast, crew and producers and they want him always close at hand. So, he gets paid for being there and doing nothing, and paid for his drug selling skills. Not a bad gig I guess. Which one does he put on his resume?
Lost
I worked with the guy who married Courtney Stodden
ReplyDeleteThat's what he puts on his resume. Sure thing to be hired, then.
Best job ever.
ReplyDeleteThere's probably one PA on every set where this is their sole purpose!
ReplyDeleteSounds normal for Hollywood!
ReplyDeleteThey cant even get their own drugs??!!
ReplyDeletewell that explains why Lost got so shitty after JJ Abrams left. Everybody was coked out coming up with ridiculous ideas thinking it was genius.
ReplyDeletelol Becca, it would seem so yes, and a production assistant in charge of casual hookups too.
ReplyDeleteI would think that's the job skill that gets him hired and he doesn't need a stinking resume because he is known in the industry for what he does on set.
ReplyDeleteexplains why Once Upon A Time has also crashed adn burned in a big way; same producers/writers.
ReplyDeleteYou're right. It's just baffling why they think sticking all of them on this wretched island with this ridiculous Pan character was a good idea.
DeleteThe sight of 25 year old men dancing around the fire like 6 year olds imitating Indians in a grade Z western is truly pathetic.
Then there's the reveal from last week as to "SPOILER ALERT"
Who Pan's son is.
Rumple, which makes no sense when you get down to it, because Pan is a boy, an evil one, more like one out of "Lord of the Flies", but in general, boys don't have children.
They've put themselves into a box with this one.
They filmed in Hawaii- probably just some guy with a good weed connection.
ReplyDeleteThere is someone like that on EVERY union job site across the country. It is how shit gets done.
ReplyDeletethe whole cast got duis too
ReplyDelete@Becca I agree that OUAT is getting to the shark jumping stage. In fact I told my husband is was getting too
ReplyDelete"Lost" for me.
And perhaps SPOILER ALERT
You now know how Pan came to have Rumple as his son. He became an adult, had the boy, wanted to fly again, made it back to the island, and the price he had to pay to be a boy again was to give up his son.
As soon as Mickey Mouse shows up I'm done for good.
OUAT in Wonderland isn't bad, but those special effects really make it hard for me to take anything seriously.
ReplyDeleteI I wanted to like OUATIW, but couldn't make it past the first epi.
Deletefacilitator for a hit TV show
ReplyDeleteor "consultant" for hit TV show
I wouldn't doubt it. My buddy was a PA on Lost for a few years and has great stories.
ReplyDeleteI buy this, much like 75% of actors ask a kitchen for a hook up when out in a new city..
ReplyDeleteAnd if there's not one, then the actors hit up behind the scenes ppl. One friend in costuming said she gets hit up for everything imaginable, she thinks it's because she has lots of piercings/tats/funky hair. I think it's because she's just there and handy.
ReplyDeleteSounds very efficient!
ReplyDeleteWinnigirl - Great stories from the Lost set???? Spill a few, for pity's sake!
ReplyDeleteIf only he could hold a purse and let people call him Sally.
ReplyDeleteHa, makes me wonder who needed it the most, and Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof and Matthew Fox make the top three.
ReplyDeleteAlso, there was a case where some goons broke into Josh Holloway's Hawaii house and stole his Mercedes. With this BI, it starts looking like some kind of underground repo job.