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Actors and Writers Lives: TheReality
By encinoman
The public is fascinated by celebrity actors. But really, what&;s their life? Get up, go to a cafe, have a few cups of coffee and lots of cigarettes, obsessively check their Blackberries and cell phones for phone calls, go to the gym. If they have money they go shopping, if they&;re famous they get dressed and go to clubs at night to get photographed and chat with their friends. This is for the 9 months a year when they&;re not shooting a film.
Television actors have an even more boring life. They get up early for their 6AM call, then spend most of the day on the set reading or chatting (again drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes) in makeup and costume waiting for their scenes. At the end of the day they get in their cars (no chauffeured craziness here), drive home, see their families, have dinner, help their kids with homework or catch up on DVDs, and go to bed before 11PM; gotta be fresh for that early call.
The writer&;s life, like an actor&;s, is not all that interesting. He or she gets up, makes a pot of coffee, turns on the computer, starts procrastinating, walks around, checks email, procrastinates some more, goes to their favorite websites, blogs&;anything to postpone writing. Two or four or six hours later, they finally do some writing, have lunch, go back to check the web, walk the dog, pick up the kids from school.
In short, the real life of those in so-called &;glamour professions&; is boring.
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