Getting work

摘要

When Bernie Brillstein was a fledgling agent, he got a call from a model who had done a cigar commercial. They had lunch. She was sweet to him. They went back to her place. She gave him two amyl-nitrate pills, and they had great sex. "Later, after she'd spread her legs, she jumped out of bed and spread her portfolio of 11-by-14 pictures on the floor. It was like a cold shower, but I began to understand how the game really worked." Show business, as anybody will tell you, is all about relationships, but when business and relationships are intertwined, the relationships become subservient to the business. That is why (aside from the decorative element the film stars provide) books about show business are so much more gripping than books about most businesses.