Uh, other management office stories:
\n\nWe had a former child star who once I knew him I noticed had bit parts in everything, and voices in half the kids\u2019 cartoons in production. He actually took the biggest chunk of our time, mostly mediating between his (stage) mom and (former child star) girlfriend as they tried to outmaneuver each other for control of him. He booked hella jobs tho, so worth it.
\n\nAnyway when he was coming in we had to lock the door to the waiting room because otherwise he would burst in and monopolize our time because he\u2019d just never learned how not to be the center of attention at all times. Like once when the managers were taking a call while they waited on a contract to print he used the time to come out to the assistants\u2019 room, pull out a deck of cards, and do fucking magic tricks for us.
\n\nAnd the weirdest thing about it, it wasn\u2019t actually grating. They were good magic tricks! And he was very charming and charismatic! Dude just didn\u2019t have an off switch.
\n\nWhat else\u2026 oh, there was a guy who had been a soap actor but hadn\u2019t worked in a while and the calls I overheard pushing him were these ridiculous dances of talking around things, like \u201cOh yeah, he\u2019s GREAT, and everyone loves him, ALWAYS HAS, and aah, you know, that\u2019s just catty rumors, really he\u2019s never even been ACCUSED of ANYTHING, certainly not raping his costar in her trailer, anyway WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE, he\u2019s a WHOLE NEW MAN now, have you heard about his newfound passion for animal rights activism?\u201d
\n\nOh also we had Aaron Carter for a while, which among other things means I\u2019ve actually seen his shitty motocross movie. Dude would never ever return calls, if we actually needed to talk to him we had to contact him through Lou Pearlman\u2019s office. Now this is an industry of assholes and these managers held their own, but that\u2019s the only guy I ever saw them tangibly afraid of.
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