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    Better Looking

    An actor fires his agent for telling the truth, and another fires his agent for lying. In other words, we do the impossible: we sympathize with agents.

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    By Rob Long • Mar 20, 2013 • 3m Listen

    I have an actor friend who works a lot. And the only reason I say it that way is because this is Los Angeles, and everyone here has an actor friend, but when you’ve got friends who are actors you naturally and almost instinctively divide them up into two categories: the ones who work and the ones who wait. Tables, often but also for that one big break....

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