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Contents I. Coming Attractions 1. The Preview 2. Why Should You Listen to Us? II. Picking Your Poison 3. Assisting a Star: Feeling Julia Roberts’s Pain 4. Assisting a Director: Lights! Camera! Protein Shake! 5. Assisting an Agent or Manager: How to be Satan’s Handmaiden 6. Assisting a Producer: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times 7. Assisting a Studio Executive: An Ideal Job for Someone in the Witness Protection Program III. Finding Your Place Among the Stars 8. What to Do If Your Last Name Isn’t Spielberg 9. Padding Your Rsum: It’s No Less Ethical Than the Wonderbra 10. Internships: How to Gain Valuable Experience While Xeroxing 11. Congratulations on Your New Job 12. Moving In: Life at the Bottom of the Hollywood Hills IV. It’s All Your Fault! What Your Job Really Entails 13. Meet the Telephone, Your New Best Friend 14. Don’t Look a Gift Basket in the Mouth 15. The Art of the Meeting 16. How to (Not) Read a Script 17. When Pigs Fly: The Art of Hollywood Travel 18. You’ll Never Reschedule Lunch in This Town Again 19. The Domestic Drama: Even Michelle Pfeiffer’s Toilet Floods V. The Wrap Party 20. Sex, Drugs, and Other Work-Related Issues 21. From Under the Red Carpet: Assistant Life at a Hollywood Premiere 22. NYC vs. L.A.: Central Park vs. Valet Park 23. www.assistant.calm: The Hollywood Wide Web 24. It’s Not Just a Job…It’s an Adventure in Codependency 25. Frequently Annoying Questions 26. Roll End Credits: The Recap
