oh man, this business

[rm]

Between the Craigslist ad looking for the attractive 21-28-y-o with a great body, some acting experience, the desire to finish writing a partially developed script and willing to put up the money to produce it and this article in the SMH, I wonder, what is it I am doing exactly in this business? I mean, other than poking it with sticks.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/tinseltown-thinks-im-weird/2005/06/24/1119321888431.html

Hollywood has told Australian actor Diana Glenn she is quirky and offbeat.

She's also been informed she may be unattractive to some.

But she is determined to give Tinseltown a go.

"They think I'm weird," Glenn said in Sydney recently to promote her first feature film Oyster Farmer which opens nationally on June 30.

"They say I look offbeat, a bit quirky, unconventionally attractive, but some people could find me just unattractive.

"That is what I have been told and I have only just started auditioning."

If you go to the photo, I look nothing like her, but you'll see why I'm like, "well, I knew that, but shiiiiiiiiiit."

Comments

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

I don't get it, I think she's adorable. I also think you're strikingly lovely. I would hate to see either of you in Hollywood, spackled within an inch of your lives and every photo airbrushed until your own mother wouldn't recognize you.

Anyway, none of the "conventionally attractive" women in the entertainment industry look like what we think they look like. Sure, once they've been shot with Homer Simpson's makeup gun set on Whore, they all look alike. But I love the sites that show celebrities without their makeup. Scary. In fact, that pic of Diana Glenn looks incredibly similar to a pic of Cameron Diaz without her makeup.

If you want to be conventionally attractive, you've got to drop a whole bunch of IQ points and walk around slack-jawed and vacant.

Your pic? You look elegant, like a 40's movie star. Glamorous. Every time you post your picture arrests my attention. I just sent my husband to this post, and his reaction to her pic was "wow, she's pretty." The first time he saw you he said "oh, wow, wow, WOW." He wanted to be an actor, he did the whole thing you do, he knows what the industry parameters are. As he says, you (and this actress too) are real life beautiful, and in real life beauty is utterly diverse. The industry you're in has a couple of templates to squeeze into in order to fit.

And then there are those actresses who don't squeeze in. Katharine Hepburn. Anjelica Huston. Christina Ricci. Judi Dench. Ha.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

I actually think this girl looks like a high contrast version of Cate Blanchett, who for being the most beautifulwoman in the world, we must remember is seriously weird looking.