Just a cute little anecdote about being young and stupid in Los Angeles

Some people in Hollywood are not very nice. Others, though, are, in fact, very nice!

ChatGPT made this image when i described the situation. It is not very accurate.

When I was 21, I was in a play in Hollywood, which was one of those plays that are a total con. They’re things that predatory middle-aged nobodies in Hollywood put on by renting out a theater and then charging bright-eyed desperate actors to help cover that expense (and the director’s time) because they want something to invite agents to.

I fell for this and was the lead, which means I probably was the dipshit who paid the most. In the play, I was some college-age fellow who blah blah blah gets loaded and eventually kills his girlfriend in a very violent finale. The girlfriend was the second lead of the play, which meant that the actress had probably paid the second most.

There are only a few rehearsals for plays like this. It's more of a “learn your lines, run it twice on Wednesday and Thursday, and then do the show Friday through Sunday.”

The girl who played the girlfriend, whom I killed, was—I don’t remember her name—but she was from the South, and she pronounced “Ben” like “Beeeeen.”

So I strangled her twice in rehearsal and then on Friday night during the actual show.