The Mailroom - Hollywood History from the Bottom Up (Audio cassette)

From veteran Hollywood writer David Rensin comes this one-of-a-kind account of what goes on inside Hollywood's secret training camp: the mailroom. Featuring personal accounts from legends such as David Geffen, Barry Diller, Bernie Brillstein, and Mike Ovitz among others, readers are taken on a trip through glamour and humiliation, lousy pay and incredible perks, killer egos and a killor-be-killed ethos, in which mailroom trainees at top talent agencies do anything they can to get ahead. The kids in The Mailroom have done it all: from hanging out with Elvis to delivering a senior agent's urine sample to the doctor; from crashing the Academy Awards ceremony to hoping to deliver more than just the mail to sexy actresses' homes. Full of revealing stories and delicious dish, The Mailroom is not only a non-stop engrossing read, but a crash course taught by experts on how to succeed in Hollywood through hard work, shrewd manipulation, and a hell of a lot of nerve. David Rensin travels behind the scenes and through sixty-five years of show-business history to tell the real stories of the marvelous careers that began, and in some cases ended, in the mailroom. Anyone who believes in the merit of hard work and wants to get ahead in business will want to read this book.