Holly Schroeder: ‘Get a Grip!’

I’m an actor who moved from New York City to L.A. at about the same time as Holly Schroeder (“Is This Any Place to Stage a Life?” April 2). It always amazes me when actors move west and talk in fanciful phrases like “creativity is my quest” or “I always thought acting was cheaper than therapy.”

Get a grip! This is the City of Angels and here are the rules that you fly by: looks, marketability, bankability, who you know, and keep on fishing to the end.

This is the big leagues. Don’t show up here unless you’re ready to play.

Gene Bush

Los Angeles