Background Image
The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a new york reviewer. when this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in hollywood. he is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.
-S. J. Perelman
Please Wait....
Translating....

The Worst Disgrace That Can Befall A

S. J. Perelman
The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a new york reviewer. when this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in hollywood. he is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.
Views: 10
Cite this Page
Prevent plagiarism by providing proper attribution.
APA FORMAT
Embed this Quote
Copy this HTML code to embed the quote on your website or blog.
HTML CODE
Topic
New York Hollywood Pariahs

More From S. J. Perelman

New york is the thing that seduced me. new york is the thing that formed me. new york is the thing that deformed me. new york is the thing that perverted me. new york is the thing that converted me. and new york is the thing that i love too.
New York
In 1997, the national bankruptcy review commission recommended that chapter 12 of the federal bankruptcy code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.
Protection Chapters Made
I was writing very early, like i was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'pariah.' the football team was the bears, and the literary magazine was 'pariah.' it was great. it was definitely a real sub-culture. but i wrote stories for them.
Football Real Team
The producer can put something together, package it, oversee it, give input. i'm the kind of producer that likes to take a back seat and let the director run with it. if he needs me, i'm there for him. as a director, i like to have the producer there with me. as a producer, i don't want to be there because i happen to be a director first and foremost, i don't want to "that guy."
Running Giving Guy
Is hollywood the cruelest city in the world? well, it can be. new york can be that, too. you can be a broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. they forget you ever lived. it happens in hollywood, too.
New York Stars Night
Everything i learned and didn't do in new york i would put into place here in the london west hollywood. it's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the new york observer and all that, and then the new york times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. they said that i played safe because it wasn't fireworks. then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.
New York Stars Two
Similar Quotes
My writing is really intuitive. as a kid, i went to school in new jersey and hung out in new york, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.
Song New York Writing
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. his songs contain the essence of new york in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind, part of the 20th-century folk-song tradition in the sense that they are popular music which has been spread by oral tradition (for many must have sung a gershwin song without having any idea who wrote it).
Song New York Essence
My accountant tells me i can't be a california resident anymore. i spend too much of my time in new york.
New York California Too Much
I did 15 shows a week when i lived in new york. i did five shows on a friday and seven shows on a saturday. it was everything i did and it was my sole source of income.
Friday New York Income

Trending Author

Melissa De La Cruz
Melissa De La Cruz
Roberta Flack
Roberta Flack
Alessandra Ambrosio
Alessandra Ambrosio
Peter Carey
Peter Carey
Jay Leno
Jay Leno
Li Na
Li Na
Category
Information
Inspirational
Philosophy
Personal Growth
Happiness & Joy
Life Lessons
Success & Business
Motivation