I clicked open the first file and, as I did so, an odd idea entered my mind like a refrain and grew from idle thought to inspiration. I felt like Einstein confronting E=mc2 on the blackboard inside my head. I had obeyed the rules of the system. After losing five times in a row, I had stopped. Tha...
Outside, along the edge of the pavement, a blue velvet rope hangs from chromium posts. Gorillas in dinner suits guard the entrance and, behind the rope, hundreds of wannabes stand night after night hoping to be admitted, the intense young men lugging bags full of film scripts, the girls close to ...