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  • Send Hate Letters to Facebook — Please

    So sometime between yesterday afternoon when I left my newest mind-numbing Temp gig and this morning when I woke up with a fever of 101, Facebook disabled my account. It appears that Temp X — King of Hollywood and Hero to the Underemployed — was in violation of Facebook's Code of Ethics. I was told…

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  • The 5 Stages of Unemployment

    The economy continues to worsen. And, with it, anxiety about layoffs is on the rise. You'd like to see a therapist to explain the emotions you're feeling, but you never got health insurance. Instead, you're stuck perusing the web for approximate explanations of your whip-saw moods. Until now. Temp X has a track record of…

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  • Be Jealous. Plagiarize. Buy Knee Pads …

    Temp X was recently asked to give the commencement address to the 2009 graduates of Emerson College. This is a decent honor (like most Emerson students, UT-Austin film school was my first choice), but I accepted it anyway. Following is a transcript of that address … Ladies and Gentlemen of the Class of 2009: Sunscreen…

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  • Love’s Labour’s Lost: Hollywood Tackles In Vitro Fertilization

    The name Lesley Brown probably doesn't mean anything to you. And that's OK. She's a footnote in history as she's the first woman to have a child through in vitro fertilization. In 1978, Mrs. Brown gave birth through a planned Caesarean Section to her daughter, Louise. Last year Lesley and John Brown celebrated Louise's 30th…

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  • The 10 Commandments (The Hollywood Remake)

    Hollywood executives are only good at two things: needlessly remaking old material and acting like God. So when offered the opportunity to contribute to TheWrap.com, it seemed only appropriate that I — Temp X, King of Hollywood and Hero to the Underemployed — employ these same concepts in my maiden posting. Following are the holiest…

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