Sheila Winters had been a casting agent for her own company for as long she could remember. She’s under a lot of stress due to casting for an upcoming horror film, however her main actor for the role recently got into a bad accident and called last minute to cancel. “Jenny! Did Leon ever call?” Jenny? Jenny!” Sitting at her desk, rummaging through a mess of papers she suddenly looks up to notice a stout, unattractive guy with a receding hairline approach her with a rope. “Leon? What are you doing? Where’s Jenny? “Jenny’s dead...and you’re next bitch!” In one swift motion she mock puts the noose up against Sheila’s neck in an effort to pretend to strangle her. “No, Leon. Don’t!,” said Sheila in such a pathetic, unamused tone you would …show more content…
never believe she could ever be involved with acting. “The silent scream is the loudest!” The man says in a dramatic tone, his eyes wide with suspense.Unimpressed, she quickly untightens his grip and sits up in her chair. “That’s great. Thanks for coming in.” That’s it? Yeah, you’re terrific, but you’re not quite what I’m looking for. Well what do you need? I’m an actor. I need someone heavier.
I can wear padding. I don’t mean heavier I mean bigger. I really need this part. I know you do. But you’re not “it”. I need a killer! In an effort to please her he throttles her once more, I need money I haven’t eaten in a week and I need this fucking job! Great. That’s great. But I need someone physically larger. With a tan! On that note, Barry leaves, again failing yet another audition. He exits the office where he is greeted by a line of aspiring actors wielding their ropes and repeating the famous “Jenny’s dead… your next line like a broken record. Walking down a hallway, Barry makes a right to a set of elevators, which like his dream of being an actor is taking longer to get here more than he likes. He repeatedly hits the buttons, before turning around and noticing a bulletin board decorated with advertisements from businesses in the area. One in particular catches Barry’s eye-- a casting call for a theater production of Hamlet. Having nothing to lose and willing to make $250 on the part, Barry takes a number before he heres the ding of the approaching elevator. He races to the elevator, though it shuts him out. A tall man exits the elevator, who if one merely glanced could easily have mistaken him for David Hasselhoff’s
twin. “Barry!” Barry knew that voice like the back of his hand. As if his day couldn’t get anymore worse. He had always envied the success, charm, and good looks Winton Robbins posessed. Winton was everything Barry wasn’t; your typical golden hair blue eyed golden boy. He was a casting director’s wet dream and a camera’s best friend. Having lived with Winton as a roomate, if there was one thing Barry knew it was that Winton was no true actor, he simply relied on his looks. Something Barry wouldn’t and couldn’t stand for. He could fool everyone else, but not him. Hey Winton, Barry said in a melancholy tone. Fine! How the hell are you? How’s Lisa? She’s still the best thing that’s ever happened to me. Hey, do you remeber that rat hole we all lived in Yeah, and we still live therre. I can’t stay to chat with you Winton, I’ve gotta gto. Oh, come on, Barry. You cant still be angry with me because I work for a living. Oh, yes I can. Let me ask you something on your resume does it still say actor. Winton gives a sarcastic laugh. “You crack me up, you know that?” Don’t you get it? This business doesn’t have anything to do with acting? An actor is one who acts, not one that collects unemployment. “I’m done listening to this. Just get away from me.” By now, Barry was repeatedly pressing the button, however the elevator wasn’t going to provide him with a quick escape. He started nervously pacing, doing anything to pass time so he couldn’t listen to Winton. “Maybe if you spent a little less money on classes and more on a new wardrobe or maybe, just maybe, some blue contact lenses. you might get a job for a change. Well I’ve seen your comercialls and I’m not impressed. “ Yes, I do comercials.I made 50 grand on one spot alone. Ok. Well, I dont do I act. He unfolds the tab he had tsaken off the bulletin board earlier, advertising Hamlet. “This is Hamlet. It’s about acting.” Avenue D at Canal. What the hell kind of theater is down there? Suddenly, the elevator opens and Barry feels a wave of relief. “I gotta go” he says before getting inside Barry, you’re 35 years old. How much longer are you gonna do free theater. Hamlet doesnt need an audience. It’s a classic. Maybe so but Lisa deserves better. With that last line, the elevator closes.
Sheila and Eric are convinced that this doesn’t change a thing. Just when Mr. Birling teases the family, he receives a telephone to find that there’s is a girl that has died in the infirmary and a police inspector is on his way to question
Have you ever had something of great value be taken from you and then feeling emotionally empty? In Celia Garth, Gwen Bristow desires to share the important message of Celia Garth’s past to the characters and readers. Memories prove that Celia got through the war and the bells provided a stress free period. Her memories were resembled through the bells of St.Michaels Church. The past demonstrated in Celia’s eyes about the war and what the bells reminded her of.
A year passes without any incidents and senior patiently waiting, knowing was once again junior’s mischief was upon them. Senior gets a call from Miss Daisy Windsor, her complaint about Junior was very sever and she had to speak with Lawrence Senior as soon as possible about his sons actions. Senior walked in and his flashy gold watch and diamond ring blinded Miss Daisy. She implied that he was a very wealthy man. She looked inside his eyes and saw dollar signs. Lawrence writes a check for his sons actions and a little more. He then walks out a very happy man. They had a deep connection and Senior realized he made a big mistake knowing he betrayed Mrs. Lawrence. The affair continued for 3 years. Mrs. Lawrence never found out, never even expected the
"When Eliza, Lindsay, and I all finally stood up to walk to the ambulance to get bandaged up, the crowd stood and gave us a standing O. We went on to win the game bug, but my topple made everything else anticlimactic."
Anne Frank was a 13 year old girl who lived in Amsterdam, Holland. She wrote a diary about her life during the Holocaust and when she was in hiding during the Nazi invasion. In her diary, she said “Despite, everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” I agree with this statement.
Gwen Bristow makes the reader think about the message she’s really trying to get across in her book, Celia Garth. One of Gwen Bristows greatest attributes as a writer is her ability to connect the content of the text very closely to what actually happened in the time period. Gwen incorporates important characters of the Revolutionary Period into the text and gives them certain roles to develop their character. The author also uses a minor amount of battles from the Revolutionary War to help keep the story flowing. Another thing the author is very strong at is showing the war through Celia’s eyes, which shows the consequences of war from the standpoint of a common townsfolk. Gwen Bristow is able to captivate her readers with her ability to relate the text to what happened in the Revolutionary time period.
After learning of a possible kidnapping, patrolwoman Amelia Sachs gets a dispatch about a homicide near "Thirty Seventh near Eleventh". She finds a dead body dug roughly in a grave. To protect the scene, she does all humanly possible to prevent any type of contamination.
It is the summer time and a young man named David Potter, an owner of a small weekly newspaper, decides that he needs a more secure job because his family grew from four people to six due to his wife just having twin girls, on top of twin boys they already have. So he applies for a publicity writer/sales and advertising job at Ilium Works, due to his love of writing, which is the second largest industrial plant in America, despite his wife’s misgivings. So he goes to Ilium Works
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Phyllis Dorothy James was born August 3, 1920 Oxford, England. James ended up moving to Wales and the moved to Cambridge, England. She was attending Cambridge high school for girls. Her family was not very wealthy and her dad did not believe in education beyond high school for girls. So James went to work for an tax office for three years. Then went and married Ernest Connor Bantry White in 1941. James and Ernest had two children, Claire and Jane. James was in her forties when her first novel, cover her face was published in 1962. She used her personal live and her professional live to write her amazing stories. “These aided her in both her description of police detective work and her portrayal of characters” (Encyclopedia). James used her work for the bases of her novel. She gave her readers background on police and medical procedures. In A Mind to Murder (1962), Shroud for a Nightingale (1971), and Death of an Expert Witness (1977). She is focused on examine a relationship between people will still telling a mystery. In 1999 she received the Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award for long term achievement. She is published all over the world as: Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Argentina, USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, Holland and Norway. This is a quote that P.D. James wrote in children of men, "History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future, is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species." (P.D. James) This book has a great theme, setting and great motifs.
Through Janet and Geoff Benge’s unique style of writing in their biography of Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime, one can easily visualise, feel, and travel with Gladys to and through China’s harsh mountain terrain and mainland. The use of words and feelings described throughout this biography help readers envision the environment and share Gladys’s feelings in physical form. The first good example of this is when Gladys is making her way through the miserable cold up the railroad tracks to get to the train station. “An icy wind whipped at Gladys’s exposed face…its bitter cold seep through her woolen stockings…”(Benge & Benge, 1998, p. 15). Through this, the reader can feel and imagine the same cold Gladys felt and experienced. The
Gail Godwin's short story "A Sorrowful Woman" revolves around a wife and mother who becomes overwhelmed with her husband and child and withdraws from them, gradually shutting them completely out of her life. Unsatisfied with her role as dutiful mother and wife, she tries on other roles, but finds that none of them satisfy her either. She is accustomed to a specific role, and has a difficult time coping when a more extensive array of choices is presented to her. This is made clear in this section of the story.
...abulary when Dr. Elieen Cole started to help Lewis’s character improve in moving and speaking. Dr. Cole specialized in developing therapies to treat patients with cerebral palsy and made a huge impact in Christy’s life by assisting him to reach his full potential with his art. At first, Christy was hesitant about the therapy sessions, but eventually allows Dr. Cole to work with him at home. For an exercise to help Christy speak, he was told to read the Shakespearian play, “Hamlet”. Christy read the famous lines, “to be or not to be”, which means to live or not to live. Christy eventually responded to the quote by taking action and achieving his goal of having his art that was beautifully painted by his left foot displayed in a gallery. Christy’s obstacle was to be able to control his disability, and successfully achieved his goal by working hard with Dr. Cole.
Imani Brooks a is girl I’ll never forget. It all happened back in 2009. I was in the sixth grade. It was my first day at a new school with new people. Imani was queen bee at the middle school, because she was a fighter, and she was bigger. I believe everyone was just scared of her including me. She ruled the school and everyone praised her. I was the new girl, and this is how I got through middle school being bullied, and how i have changed since middle school; my bully didn 't define me, she made be stronger.