The Lexicographer's Rules

"You eat a lot of humble pie. You can't be funny and you can't act. You just get lost, I suppose. That's when LA becomes a prison. The reason why you go there and the reason why you stay are all muddled. It's a place where everybody comes to find gold. Some of us come up with the gold; most of us don't."

—Sydney Morning Herald. Steve Kearney told people at home in Australia he was going to go to Los Angeles and be a big star, but it didn't work out that way. He didn't count on the falseness, the business, the tricks, the success-breeds-success perspective. He "once took a script to a Hollywood producer about a character struggling with a mental condition. 'We were driving around in his Porsche and meeting the head of New Line. It was all 'big' and 'huge'. Then he disappeared.' When the producer re-emerged, it was with a film about a character struggling with a mental condition. The story was almost identical. So was the title. The film went on to be be a box-office hit."'

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