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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Tough Commercial Break Kid

Had a callback for a commercial Friday as a 'dad' handing down his tool set to his 'son'. I was paired up with a kid named Lucian who was SO cute and precocious that it made me want to save up to buy one someday. He was like Haley Joel Osment in 'Forrest Gump' except that when he talked you didn't want to strangle him. I asked him if we should go over the copy before they called us in, and he said "They'll have the words on the, um, whatchya call it... dry erase thing-ee!" Lucian, I'd sooner set the Snuggle fabric softener bear on fire than argue with that. Of course, upon entering the room I quickly learned that it was filled with people with laptops whose time is not to be wasted with things like "writing the words on the dry erase thing-ee". It was only two lines, and I'm pretty sure I remembered them from two days ago, but had there been more... The director directed Lucian to pretend the tool set was a rated 'M' video game he'd finally gotten to play. Why don't you just dangle some titties in his face, and tell him they're filled with the cure for the polio you gave him, Herr Director? Come along, Lucian! We're not working on THIS commercial!

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