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My Zany Years Spent Working in Tinsel Town

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How about a free copy?

March 15, 2015 by MsCheevious

I couldn’t let this chance to win a paperback copy of my book “Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood: My Zany Years Spent Working in Tinsel Town’ go without letting you in on it!  It was just offered by Momma Says Read on Facebook, and now I’ve got a giveaway on GOODREADS for all of you to enter! YAY!!!

 

Momma Says Read

That’s Momma there…

If you’ve wanted to read my book, but haven’t gotten around to buying one , how about a FREE COPY?

All you need to do is enter below, and if the giveaway doesn’t show up below for you, click HERE to enter on Goodreads too (log in is easy with Facebook)! GOOD LUCK YOU GORGEOUS SPECIMENS!!! I HOPE YOU WIN!

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Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood - My Zany Years Spent Working in T... by Lisa Jey Davis

 

Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood – My Zany Years Spent Working in Tinsel Town

 

by Lisa Jey Davis

 

Giveaway ends March 28, 2015.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

 

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I like being on top

March 4, 2015 by MsCheevious

I LIKE BEING ON TOP

 

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Last Monday I received an email from Deb Scott of The Best People We Know radio show (she’s interviewed me about my BRCA mutation – and that interview enjoyed great success as the top interview on all of blog talk radio back in its day). Deb must know of my affinity for being on top, because she let me know that my book, “Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood: My Zany Years Spent Working in Tinsel Town” was the #1 New Release in its category on Amazon.

(Click here to tweet that).

I won’t even begin to try to explain to you the nuances of Amazon and how it calculates these things. I belong to a very esteemed group of independent (and some traditionally published) authors on Facebook, and none of them can explain how or why Amazon does things, but I should be completely honest here. My first thought was:

This must be a mistake. My book isn’t cheap. It’s in hardcover. Who, besides the fabulous people who follow the blog, and some close friends and family, even buys hardcover books anymore?

But it wasn’t. Maybe I was right that both men and women like a good tale of recovery from divorce and the great American Dream of making our dreams come true! Ya think?

Nevertheless, I’m happy to show you below just how FREAKING COOL it was to see my very own book displayed on Amazon with a #1 next to it! And it was #8 overall in its category. Granted, there are only about nine-hundred and sixty-some books in the Single Parent category on Amazon, and my book is not only listed there. It’s also in the Memoirs and Entertainment (I think, as of this writing it’s #31 in hardcover memoirs, and hey… as of this writing, it’s still at #3 in Single Parents, but who’s counting?) categories.

Number 1

 

 

I won’t lie. I like the look of this.

I’m not quite sure how this happened. If I knew, I’d be doing whatever it was that made it happen every single, friggin’ day.

Who am I kidding? I’d be glued to my computer screen every minute possible, clicking the mouse, banging on buttons, smoke rising from the keyboard, making it happen some more. Because dammit, I LIKE BEING ON TOP.

But wait. There’s more…  

This weekend I posted a photo of me, lying amid a pile of the advance paperback copies of my book, and someone on Facebook told me something extraordinary — that they were loving the book so much, they couldn’t put it down.

Cool Book Feeback

 

This is the stuff dreams are made of (and of course, I posted a video “If You Can Dream It – You Can Make It Happen” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dzka6cIJQM)

You can still get a copy of my book (of COURSE) by going either to AMAZON, or right here on the blog (though it’s cheaper on Amazon, of course).

 

That’s all I got for ya. Keep dreaming, and keep making stuff happen. It works.

 

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This is our weekend. This is our year.

February 27, 2015 by MsCheevious

Book written and released? CHECK

Book reached #1? CHECK

Book won an award in a big Book Festival? CHECK

Book signing parties have begun to take shape, the first of which happens tomorrow? CHECK

 

THESE ARE ALL GREAT THINGS, PEOPLE.

I should be friggin’ DANCING.  We should ALL be dancing.

But we’re not. Well, I’m not.

Let’s just say I’ve had better weeks. I won’t go into details because it’s just the same ole’ stuff everyone struggles with, like health insurance, or various other toils our lives get sTaCKeD with, devouring every ounce of our happy places (or our time).

 

I’m going to end this post quickly and succinctly with what I told Nuggie yesterday:

“I’m tabling this stuff until after my book-signing, even though I have every reason to be upset about these things, because DANGIT! THIS IS MY WEEKEND. THIS IS MY YEAR.”

Am I right?

As for you… I know that life can get in the way of our mantra to “enjoy every moment,” but whatever shit you may be dealing with, realize that your problems are not always as bad as the next person’s. There is always someone out there who would gladly trade places with you. You can take solace knowing some day in the future you and I will BOTH be through this tunnel, and peeking into the light.

Because THIS IS OUR WEEKEND.  THIS IS OUR YEAR.

(View photos from the book signing party here)

Love you people!

 

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Holy 50 Shades of Grammar

February 15, 2015 by MsCheevious

HOLY 50 SHADES OF GRAMMAR

 

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I have yet to read E.L. James’ erotic book, 50 Shades of Grey, though I don’t know that I ever will. I know. THE TRAVESTY!

It’s safe to say the book’s reputation precedes it. It has been widely panned by critics across the world for its poor use of language, with countless posts on FB, Twitter, blogs attesting the same,  and yet women, it seems, can’t get enough of the spicy sex and sultry mystique surrounding the dominant/submissive lifestyle. I hear the movie is getting a fair share of stinging reviews as well, though that didn’t stop it from breaking box office records in its opening weekend.

They (the critics) had me at “poor use of language.” I’m about up to HERE with the plethora of poor writing available out in the ether. Seeking it out for a cheap thrill (even though buying the book or seeing the movie are not going to be so cheap now) makes not sense at all to me.  

An interesting thing came across my desk this week that I couldn’t ignore, however. Apparently the folks over at Grammarly couldn’t help but jump on the 50 Shades band-wagon (COUGH – not me – COUGH). A crack team of experts on their staff took a look at the book. They reviewed it for spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, and learned that — although there were some mistakes — the errors were in alignment with similar gaffes in celebrated romances such as Tender is the Night, Wuthering Heights, and Pride and Prejudice.

Their conclusion: The language of of love really is a language of its own. 

They posted this infographic comparing it to some of the most celebrated romance novels of all time (clicking will take you to another website):

I’m not sure how I feel about this. I read Wuthering Heights at about fifteen years of age. It was right in my wheelhouse. That alone is evidence to me that the dumbing down of the human race is not a new phenomenon. It was going on then, is going on now, and will obviously continue.

Does that mean it’s not okay for people to thoroughly enjoy 50 Shades? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

Enjoy every moment. Let them enjoy the book, the movie, and the trading cards to their hearts’ content. I’ll be over here submitting and resubmitting this text into Grammarly, until it stops telling me my use of colloquialisms, sentence fragments and wordiness are problems. I’m wating for them to develop an app for my writing style. HUMORLY. Let’s go with that.

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A tip for ladies from the Hollywood trenches: the casting couch

February 8, 2015 by MsCheevious

A TIP FOR LADIES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD TRENCHES: THE CASTING COUCH

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On this, the week of Grammys, 2015, I thought it apropos to talk about a typical experience I had while working in Hollywood.  I loved my work in music television production. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. But, like any other job, it came with its own set of frustrations. When thinking about this, I can’t help but recall the time I met “Universal.”

Universal was one of the many guys back in the day who wanted to introduce me to the stereotypical Hollywood “casting couch.” As if, I would ever fall prey to the casting couch. I was eager and a networking fool, but let’s not go crazy.

My life was all about networking at a time when the only thing I’d done to qualify me to work in television was production and news desk work at my local network affiliate news station. Networking was all I had (aside from my brains, keen fashion sense and wicked sense of humor).

When Universal and I met, I was with my friend Britt at a legitimate red carpet event, hosted by her network E! Entertainment Television.

SIDE NOTE HERE.  I’m only differentiating the event as “legit” because in Hollywood, you can stumble upon events purporting to be “star-studded” with a “red carpet” all day long. People in Hollywood (more so than any other place on the planet, it seems) have drunk the Kool-Aid about the mystical world of celebrities and red carpets. Which surprises me, because, you know… we actually have legitimate red carpet events going on all the time to serve as examples.

So when I was a publicist and would turn down events like a client’s best friend’s aunt’s cousin’s bat mitzvah, people were a bit befuddled and probably deflated. Poor kids. But their reasoning generally went something like this:

Why wouldn’t the press see the newsworthy aspect and cover this event? No doubt Brad and Angelina would come. They’re parents too. They can relate, right? And they’d do it for the publicity, right? No? How about Madonna? She studied the Kabbala for goddsakes! She’ll definitely come out to show her support, especially since she doesn’t get much PR these days, right?

But, THIS event with Britt… it was LEGIT. I talk about it in my book “Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood”, but there were the usual soap and sitcom stars, a host of entertainment industry execs, publicists, and more — and all manner of press.

This event initiated the brief, casual friendship I had with Universal. He turned out to be the Vice President of some type of distribution or production or something over at Universal Studios. Within a few minutes we learned that he was involved in approval of production as well as casting of a select few projects, and Britt was slightly in awe of my meeting him (the reason I started to talk to him, as well as why I chose to step away from conversations with the Soap and Sitcom stars are covered in the book as well).

So I was a single mom, trying to network my way into production jobs in Hollywood (I was never interested in acting), and I made this fabulous connection. I was always very clear about what I was doing in LA when talking with new connections, and Universal was no exception. Still, with Universal (and everyone else), I was my normal, kind, REAL and down to earth self. (That’s me, right? RIGHT?)

I followed up with him, met him for lunch a few times, invited him to a big soire Britt and I threw, and learned of his personal interests… he was into fine art and music. He’d traveled with a rock and roll band of the 70’s (some little known band like Molly Hatchett or Quiet Riot) for years before going corporate. I learned all of this, and he in turn knew of my aspirations. Not once did Universal ever make an effort to introduce me to people who could offer me a job, or even let me know about films or projects coming up so I could do the networking and hustling on my own. And yes, I came right out and asked him to. It was always met with something like “I’ll keep that in mind.”

My connection with Universal faded, as my energy for pursuing an obvious dead-end connection waned. And it was a two-way street. Once he realized there would be no booty, he stopped pursuing as well.

And this sums up the viable complaint of all of the beautiful women, and my beautiful girlfriends in Hollywood:

“It’s always about the sex, or the date, or the arm candy with these guys. They aren’t interested to connect with me professionally in the least.”

And beauty is relative, mind you. For most of these guys, you don’t have to have Jessica Alba or Cameron Diaz looks… If you have two legs, somewhat of a nice rack and aren’t 400 lbs, you’re good! I found this to be true of most of the connections I made with men who were all too eager to meet me for drinks now and then. I must have amused them with my talk of production and the business, and in speaking of marketing and budgets.  I was always careful to let them know that I had something going on up there in my brain… Silly me, thinking that it mattered.

I won’t mince words here, though. If any one of these guys had been hot, didn’t have a pot belly bigger than an eight month pregnant woman, or weren’t more than twenty years older than me, I may have been ALL over that. I’m a red-blooded female, aren’t I? If there’d been any chemistry whatsoever, I’d be writing a different piece here altogether. These kinds of stories are what epic romances are made of, after all.

But listen ladies, I don’t know why this blatant truth seemed to escape me back then, (maybe it was because I’d made my share of successful networking connections in the same way, which led to work) but it’s a rare person who will extend the hand of friendship, and go out on a limb to recommend someone for work, let alone a heterosexual guy, when dealing with a chick he wants to “date”.

I’m not saying “don’t continue to take meetings,” or “don’t network.” I’m not saying to close yourself off from opportunities. I’m just saying to be savvy. Be kind, polite and intelligent, and make your intentions clear. Then GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT. Learn quickly if this connection isn’t going to pan out, and MOVE ON.

 

it’s a rare person who will extend the hand of friendship, and go out on a limb to recommend someone for work, let alone a heterosexual guy, when dealing with a chick he wants to “date” 

One look at THIS photo makes you wonder why ANYONE would want me as eye candy! I was EXHAUSTED with no makeup. This is what I really look like folks! LOL
This is Sheryl Crow with me in a rare backstage photo at a SHEILA E charity event. This photo did not make the book… One look at it makes you wonder why ANYONE would want me as eye candy! I was EXHAUSTED with no makeup. This is what I really look like folks!

…be savvy. Be kind, polite and intelligent, and make your intentions clear. Then GO AFTER WHAT YOU WANT. Learn quickly if this connection isn’t going to pan out, and MOVE ON.

Another rare backstage image with Stevie Wonder and other members of the crew. This is one event where my relentless networking paid off!
Another rare backstage image with Stevie Wonder and other members of the crew. This is one event where my relentless networking paid off!

 

YOUR TIME IS VALUABLE!

YOU MATTER & ARE WORTHY OF BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

#GirlPower

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Meh. I got nothin’

January 28, 2015 by MsCheevious

MEH. I GOT NOTHIN’

 

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You may have noticed that I’m not myself lately (not the fun-loving, story-telling nut job I normally am, that is). I’ve been otherwise detained with business opportunities (of which, involve classical pilates certification, the FINAL launch of my memoir Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood, an entire revamp of my personal website, teaching Pilates on steroids and now, TAXES).

It’s not easy writing a blog when so much else is spinning, especially if and when Mercury is in retrograde.

 

Mercury must be in retrograde, My #iMac just got Alzheimer’s & my cell phone is using GIANT letters all on its own. Do they think I’m old?

— Ms. Cheevious (@MsCheevious) January 28, 2015

It’s tough to conquer the world when your equipment goes schizo.

I’m not saying I believe in all this hocus-pocus stuff that people apparently LOVE to dish out. And trust me… I’ve been exposed to it all, and it can be some downright WHACKY bullshit. If you happen to live your life by tincture and crystal please don’t be offended. It doesn’t make me love you less, but I’m not one to go there without serious research or at least gut-level sense.

And hey, I don’t know the mysteries of the universe, (although I’ve been quite sure I’ve solved them over cocktails now and then), but ask to hover crystals over my body to see if my chi is balanced, or whatever, and I’ll make you a deal: I’d love to read the entire Webster’s Unabridged dictionary to you in a seven hour sitting.

This to say, that Mercury may or may NOT be in retrograde… but dammit all, I am BACK people!!

Okay… I’m sort of back. Let’s not go crazy. I’m not totally back right this second.

Right now, in this  moment?…

Well… I got nothin’.

 

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