September 16th, 2008

Frontier Teachers is now in the bookstores. I’ll be heading out to the Book Seller in Grass Valley to pick up a few copies. I did an phone interview about the book this morning with Mike Thomas at KWRE in Warrenton, MO.. It’s always a delight to be on his broadcast. I wish everyone you met in the industry could be as decent. One of the reasons I consider pursuing a different career is the rude response you get from radio and television promotional directors, motion picture agents and publicist. With rare exception (producer- director Howard Kazanjian being one of them) most of the people I’ve encountered in the entertainment industry are rude. I placed a call to actor Tom Selleck’s representatives this afternoon and she was less than kind. Fifteen seconds into the conversation I knew this was not a situation I wanted to be dealing with on a long term basis. I wonder if actors know how they’re being represented? They probably don’t care much. I do know this, should his name be mentioned again in casting I’ll caution everyone concerned to think twice. Life is too short to deal with representatives who can’t grasp that their clients haven’t cured cancer, they aren’t working to teach children to read and write, and they haven’t rescued people from burning buildings. That kind of rude behavior should barely be tolerated from real heroes like doctors, teachers, and firefighters. It’s inexcusable from the representatives of the people who simply act the part of real heroes.