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9781878355126

The Los Angeles Agent Book: Get the Agent You Need for the Career You Want

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    9781878355126

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    1878355120

  • Edition: 7th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: Scb Distributors
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Table of Contents

Avenues of Opportunity
1(6)
What Is An Agent
1(1)
An Agent Prepares
2(1)
What Do Agents Think Their Job Is?
3(2)
Partners Not Pals
5(2)
Before Your Leave Home....and Once You Get to LA
7(18)
Andy Lawler's Words of Wisdom on Schools
7(1)
Other Cool Schools
8(3)
Now that You're in Los Angeles
11(1)
Build a Support Group
11(1)
Attitude
12(1)
Get a Place to Live
12(3)
An Overview of Connecting Roads
15(2)
Map
17(1)
Living Arrangements
18(1)
Get a Job
19(1)
Encountering Agents
20(1)
Casting Society of America Job File
20(1)
Emergencies
21(1)
Market Research
21(1)
Invaluable Informational Sources
22(1)
Joining the Unions
23(2)
Your First Agent & His Tools
25(17)
Get Into an Acting Class
26(2)
TVI
28(2)
Pictures and Resumes
30(2)
Copies
32(1)
Close-ups/Bodies/Borders
32(1)
Resumes
33(1)
Sample Resume
34(1)
Listing Extra Work On Your Resume, Don't
35(1)
Additional Reels/Tapes
36(1)
99-Seat Theatre
37(1)
The Actor's Job: Looking for Work
38(1)
Drawing the Attention of Casting Directors
38(2)
Everybody Was New Once
40(2)
Self-Knowledge
42(10)
Get a Grip
47(1)
Why Are You Here?
48(1)
Assess Yourself & the Marketplace
48(1)
Making It
49(3)
Research and Follow-Through
52(11)
Get On with It
53(2)
Who Do You Love?
55(1)
Agent Looking Season
55(1)
Getting a Meeting
56(5)
Making the Decision
61(2)
Conglomerate/Star-Level Agents
63(9)
Distinguished Independent Agents
64(1)
Power, Information, So What?
65(3)
So Who's the King?
68(2)
Substance of Style?
70(1)
Bigger is Better?
70(2)
What Everybody Wants
72(10)
Definitive Client
72(4)
What to Look for in and Agent
76(2)
Ratio of Clients to Agents
78(1)
Access and Stature
78(1)
Commercial vs. Theatrical Success
79(1)
Commercial Agents
79(3)
Everybody's Responsibilities
82(14)
Setting Up Shop
82(1)
How Do We Really Get Work?
82(1)
90%/10%
83(2)
Other Things the Actor Can Do
85(4)
Networking
89(1)
Actors' Responsibilities
89(1)
Important Details
89(1)
Agents' Responsibilities/What the Actor Has a Right to Expect
90(1)
What the Actor Doesn't Have a Right to Expect
91(2)
Staying in Touch
93(1)
Emotionally Prepared to Audition
93(3)
New Representation
96(7)
New Representation
96(1)
Bona Fide Reasons to Leave
97(2)
Telling/Shopping
99(1)
Don't Wait Unit It's too Late
99(2)
Dumpee, The
101(2)
Managers/Packaging/Etc.
103(13)
When It Makes Sense to Have a Manager
104(1)
Style/Substance
105(1)
Hidden Agendas
106(1)
Gary Might Bring About Change
107(1)
Tell Me Your Experience
108(1)
No License Required
108(1)
Top of the Show/Major Role
109(2)
Breakdown Service
111(1)
Residuals and the Strike
111(1)
Your Reference Library
112(4)
Stand-Ups/One Person Shows/Voice Work
116(6)
One Person Shows
118(1)
Voice work
119(1)
Comedian Referral Service/Rent a Comic
119(1)
Voiceover Workshops
120(2)
Children In The Business
122(8)
You Don't Have to Be in New York of Los Angeles
123(1)
Don't Get Professional Pictures Right Away
124(1)
Training
124(1)
Babies
125(1)
Teachers for Young Actors
125(1)
Photographers for Kids
126(1)
Set Sitters
127(1)
What Agents Look for in Young Actors
127(1)
Hiring the Parents
128(2)
Researching the Agents
130(8)
Evaluate Carefully
130(1)
Researching the Agents
130(1)
Who's Included in This Book?
131(1)
Agent Stereotypes
131(1)
Less is More
132(1)
Numbers of Clients
132(1)
Screen Actors Guild Agency Lists
132(1)
Body of Work
133(1)
Kevin Bacon/Referrals
133(5)
Agency Listings
138(124)
Glossary
262(8)
Indexes
270(23)
Index to Agents & Agencies
270(13)
Index to Agents for Children and/or Babies
283(1)
Index to Agents for Martial Artists
284(1)
Index to Agents for Stand-ups & Comedians
284(1)
Index to Agents for Teenagers & Young Adults
285(2)
Index to Agents for Voice Work
287(1)
Index to Everything Else
288(2)
Index to Resources
290(1)
Index to Teachers & Photographers
291(1)
Index to Teachers & Photographers for Kids & Young Adults
291(1)
Index to Web Addresses
292(1)
Endnotes
293

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