Less than 17 months after graduating from college, Lauren Bachelis signed a script deal to write and produce her own sitcom for CBS, 20-Nothings. There’s no guarantee yet that it will eventually reach the screen, but it’s still great news for the young woman whose early experiences in the business inspired her to create an anonymous Tumblr blog called Hollywood Assistants. “It sounds so glamorous,” she says. “Everyone thinks that you’re living the life that your boss is living. And we are so not living the glamour life. We’re so close yet so far from our dreams.”
Bachelis has been working in the entertainment industry since her freshman year of college, when she interned as a production assistant on Judge Judy. Internships with Heroes and others followed, as did an internship at the giant Hollywood agency CAA. She knew her ultimate goal was to be a writer, so when an assistant job opened on a CAA’s lit desk last August, she took it, and the material for her popular blog began. READ FULL STORY »
