Hollywood Underground The Amazing True Story!

Taken from the infamous query letter: HOLLYWOOD UNDERGROUND is the TRUE STORY about how I lived inside two major movie studios, undetected for over three years in pursuit of a show biz dream. I was a film and journalism student at California State University, Long Beach, but after being kicked out of college for failing a class, due to making my own film, I left Long Beach behind for a dream and found myself on the streets of Hollywood for ten days, growing more and more desperate. A freak occurrence led me to walking into Sunset Gower Studios through an open door of the sound stage, where they filmed the TV show Moesha. Once inside the movie studio, I would live high atop the catwalks of STAGE 1 for a few months, getting an audition from Keith Wolfe a casting agent on the lot, placing one of my screenplays on a production office desk of Big Ticket Television and trying to make subsequent connections for work. The plan was to make the most of this weird opportunity. Inside STAGE 1, after hours, I used the bathrooms to wash clothes and clean up, but a couple months later after being chased off the lot by armed guards, perplexed on what to do next, I still didn't want to give up on my dream... So, I did what anyone with a passionate dream might do, I jumped the fence of Paramount Studios later that night around 2:00 a.m. I would end up living inside Paramount for the next THREE YEARS hidden in plain sight, acting like I belonged in this world of actors, but acting not for a paycheck or fame, but to merely survive another day and to keep this dream alive. During this once in a lifetime trek, I ate from the craft service tables of various TV shows like: Becker, Roswell, Judging Amy, The Amanda Show, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Frasier, Growing Up Brady and the movie, Fifteen Minutes, to name just a few. At first, I slept on an elevated outdoor ivy-covered catwalk at the very back of the back lot, which was attached to the sound stage where they filmed, Star Trek: Voyager. A year later, I would be found out by landscapers trimming the ivy that covered this outdoor perch. As they went to get security, I grabbed what was left from my life, stuffed into a backpack and made STAGE 30, where they film the TV show Soul Train my home, as well as the back lot where they shot The Godfather, Laverne and Shirley, and Little House on The Prairie to name a few. Inside Paramount Marathon Office Building, I took up a desk of an employee named Bob Stanton and worked on my scripts before hours on his computer. I would get there well before the start of the 9 a.m. workday and leave just before the rush of real employees filled the office, erasing the cookies of course, as well as throwing out all the coffee cups. I took on many jobs as a volunteer, but to the security staff and many other Paramount employees I came into contact every day, it became a juggling act to keep these perceived "roles" in the air. To some, like a security guard named Tom, I was the promotions guy named Bob Stanton, who could help Tom himself sell his very own screenplay, to others on the set of Becker, I was an assistant editor for Judge Judy, a professional extra, a reporter for Newsweek on the movie Fifteen Minutes, a production assistant for The Amanda Show, a young up and coming actor, an intern, a grip without a Walkie-Talkie, and young screenwriter, to name just a few. HOLLYWOOD UNDERGROUND is all about going for the dream no matter the cost. I mean, imagine being thrust into a world of movie stars, Hollywood icons, and movie producing moguls, yet you haven't anything but the will to succeed? This is quite simply a story that has never happened before and one that will likely never happen again.