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In L.A., a Dog Gets Her Own Blog and Entourage

February 5, 2009
by James Michael Dorsey
Correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor

James Michael Dorsey

Los Angeles has long been known as a one-industry town–the movies.

Every waiter has a screenplay, every busboy has an agent, and every lawyer is working on a deal. No matter what job you are working at, it is only temporary until that big break happens, when that audition pays off, or when your pilot series is picked up. But what everyone really wants to do is direct.

My friends have teased me about being the only writer in L.A. who has never attempted a screenplay, and I’ve often thought I just may be the only person here with no aspirations to be involved with a movie.

And so it came as no great surprise when two of my closest friends announced their intention to get their German shepherd, Heidi, into show business.

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