Hollywood Office Temp

By LisaMaliga

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Language: English Restricted (R)

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ChrisYarborough is a Midwesterner as green as the corn back home inOhio. This former bookstore employee movesout to Los Angeles to pursue a profitable career inscreenwriting.

Without aninstant script sale, she stumbles upon an ad that reads: TYPE YOURWAY TO THE STARS! The company is in a prestigious Century City highrise and she works there until the company closes. Out of work, hercareer as a temp is launched.

Chris temps in an East L.A. warehouse where the elderly owneris carried to her office to downtown where she discovers Banksluts,Inc. Other jobs in studios bring her in contact with famous actors.She learns that as a temp, she is the maid of thesecretarial world. One employer says, "If you don't want to use heryou can send her away."

As shesearches for a literary agent and that elusive script sale, Chrisencounters an array of unusual characters. A partying apartmentmanager, an important film director who could launch her career, alawyer with an office furnished in kindergarten motif, and severalhousehold names. Sometimes working in the entertainment biz,including stints at Playboy, Universal Studios and Warner Bros., tojobs in unrelated fields, the plucky screenwriterperseveres.

HOLLYWOOD OFFICE TEMP is written indiary format. We are shown the excesses of the 1990's as a nobodytries to become a somebody in Hollywood.

The Story Behind This Book

Although I've written a little about Hollywood in NOTES FROM NADIR, the majority of the book takes place far, far away from the proverbial glitter and glitz of Hollywood. What really happened in Hollywood? How long was I out there? Did I work in the entertainment industry? Did I meet lots of celebrities? Some answers. I originally wrote HOLLYWOOD OFFICE TEMP [H.O.T.] many years ago. This book is partially based on my years working in and out of the wonderful world of showbiz. My character, Chris Yarborough, is just that, someone who might have a few similarities to me. This book is based on people I met in Lalaland, I have also incorporated other peoples' stories to make this a better read. Some of the characters names have been changed to protect the innocent … and the guilty.