Year: 2013

THE "ALMOSTS" BY TORY SHULMAN ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED @LINEBUDDIES.COM Pilot season is rough for everyone involved. It’s a lot of “almosts” for everyone. Every time you succeed, there is a new hurdle for you to pass through--like 15 tests for network, producers, the studio and the unicyclist. How do you deal with the “almosts?” How do you deal with the “getting so close?” I actually don’t have the answer, I’m just asking. If I had to give advice on this, I would say that going Buddhist is the best thing you can do when you are dealt this frustrating hand. In Buddhism, you train every day for the rest of your life in letting everything go. Groundlessness becomes your motto and…

    It was all the way in Burbank. I had an audition for "After Lately" and I begged my boyfriend to drive me. I wasn't greedy though. I let him browse Freak Beat record shop afterwards while I bought cheap L'oreal gel eyeliner at the CVS 1 mile down the road. Which is AMAZING by the way. The BF drove me on to the lot and was ready to drive up and park the car near the casting trailer. However, Mr. Tight-Ass Universal-Guard-Man refused to let him drive past the gate. Thus I had to walk my NEWLY exercising ass down to the trailers. And guess what? It wasn't a short walk and I was in heels. And yes,…