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Originally Posted by rkzenrage
I just don't get that their lives are "interesting", makes no sense to me. Having been a professional actor and working with some, they are like anyone else... each are different.
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I totally agree with that. During a certain stage of my life (and beauty) I spent a lot of time around actors and other Hollywood types. Whereas they often conform to the most garish of the stereotypes that we read about, many of them are just real people who happened to discover they were able to do this kind of work and make a good living. Some of the most famous of them were some of the kindest people I ever met, like Linda Evans who helped me with a scene. The director who created the Wonder Woman television show was the most generous and friendly person with the young people on the set, and I will never forget how he took me and a young actor named Robert Ginty (later to become very famous in his own right) to the race track and gave us a handful of money and told us to just have fun. Robert Forster was dignified and quiet while Mike Connors was a boorish lout who took a lighted cigarette onto the dance floor. I believe I also mentioned Phil Villapiano, who was with the Raiders when we made a TV commercial together. For every fathead and ego trip I met, there were 10 wonderful human beings, and it's really interesting that the jerks have completely slipped my mind.