On a recent episode of House Hunters, a real estate agent guided a couple through the front doorway and into a home’s foyer. “And this is the inside,” she said.
I knew a woman, an ex-model, who once compiled and published a book of self-portraits and inspirational thoughts. There was, as you might imagine, an enormous amount of white space in this book. On one page there was a single thought: “Sometimes, when we do not succeed…” On the next page: “…we call that failure.”
During my early years in New York, I once worked as a messenger. I wore knitted gloves, with the fingers cut off. One day, as I was delivering a package to a modeling agency, a group of models began passionately admiring these gloves. One of the models asked, sincerely, “How did you do that?”
Actors’ resumes will often include a category labelled Special Skills, which might include fencing, accents or acrobatics. I once saw a resume where, under Special Skills, an actress had listed, quite seriously, “Using the phone.”
