"In this world of actors, I was acting, but not for a paycheck or fame, just to live another day and keep the dream alive... "

A HOLLYWOOD STORY is the TRUE STORY about how I lived inside two major movie studios for three years in pursuit of a show biz dream. After being kicked out of Cal State, Long Beach for failing a class, I found myself on the streets of Hollywood. A freak occurrence led me to walking into Sunset Gower Studios through an open door of the sound stage where they filmed the TV show Moesha.

Once inside, I lived atop the catwalks of STAGE 1 for a few months, getting an audition from Keith Wolfe a casting agent, placing one of my screenplays on a production office desk of Big Ticket Television and trying to make connections for work, but after being chased off the lot by armed guards, perplexed on what to do next, I jumped the fence of Paramount Studios later that night. I would end up living inside Paramount for the next three years, hidden in plain sight, acting like I belonged in this world of actors, but acting not for a paycheck, but to survive another day to keep this dream alive. The goal was to finish writing my three screenplays, edit them in an office cubicle on the lot and then hand them out to a few famous movie producers.

During this trek, I ate from the craft service tables of various TV shows like: Becker, Roswell, Judging Amy, The Amanda Show, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Frasier and the movie, Fifteen Minutes, to name a few. I found refuge on an elevated outdoor ivy-covered catwalk attached to Star Trek: Voyager, but after being found out by landscapers, I made STAGE 30, where they film the TV show Soul Train my new home.

Inside Paramount Studios offices I took up a desk of an employee named Bob Stanton and worked on my scripts before regular work hours on his computer. I took on many jobs as a volunteer, but to the security staff and many other Paramount Employees, it became a juggling act to keep my lies in order. To some, like a security guard named Tom, I was the promotions guy named Bob Stanton, but to others on the set of Becker, I was an assistant editor for Judge Judy... to others, an extra, a reporter for Newsweek on the movie Fifteen Minutes, a young up and coming actor, an intern, a grip, and screenwriter, etc., to name a few.

Put simply, this is a story like no other... Enjoy!

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• Publication Date: July 8, 2021
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