LA dreaming #17: Hollywhat? P.2
Despite the facts that Hollywood is starting annoying me a bit and I’ve been here already almost 7 weeks, I don’t cease wondering. And this is pretty pleasant wonder.
What amazes me is that here you may meet and talk to people, who work in film industry and even are quite famous. I never sought actors/producers/directors etc specially, but I got at least 2 people from Hollywood cinema industry, who I ran into.
The first one was a girl in the nightclub. Her name is Jael. That’s how I knew her during the evening we spent. She didn’t tell me she was an actress - I discovered her full name and biography by myself later. We met in so-so nightclub in Hollywood, she didn’t look and act like she was a famous recognizable person. That time I was surprised.
But today I was surprised even more. I was smoking at Hollywood blvd, as always just staying and staring at people, when a middle-aged man came to me and offered some tours around there. I got to say that there are a lot of guys selling their local tours to foreigners. As always, I denied his offer, but then one word led to another and we warmed to our conversation. This dude turned out to be an actor and producer. His name is Leonard Waldner. This is his play. He told me about friend of his, the he was producer of Lincoln and some other films, and he himself is in the process now. But for some reason that I did not get, he was staying at the Boulevard and handing out some needless booklets.
This is kind of... I don’t even know how to say that in the most appropriate way. But this thing makes me think that Hollywood is definitely not just a usual touristic neighborhood of LA.
What amazes me is that here you may meet and talk to people, who work in film industry and even are quite famous. I never sought actors/producers/directors etc specially, but I got at least 2 people from Hollywood cinema industry, who I ran into.
The first one was a girl in the nightclub. Her name is Jael. That’s how I knew her during the evening we spent. She didn’t tell me she was an actress - I discovered her full name and biography by myself later. We met in so-so nightclub in Hollywood, she didn’t look and act like she was a famous recognizable person. That time I was surprised.
But today I was surprised even more. I was smoking at Hollywood blvd, as always just staying and staring at people, when a middle-aged man came to me and offered some tours around there. I got to say that there are a lot of guys selling their local tours to foreigners. As always, I denied his offer, but then one word led to another and we warmed to our conversation. This dude turned out to be an actor and producer. His name is Leonard Waldner. This is his play. He told me about friend of his, the he was producer of Lincoln and some other films, and he himself is in the process now. But for some reason that I did not get, he was staying at the Boulevard and handing out some needless booklets.
This is kind of... I don’t even know how to say that in the most appropriate way. But this thing makes me think that Hollywood is definitely not just a usual touristic neighborhood of LA.