NEWLOVE

Last week at the Casting Studios I was in double session working on T-Mobile when I went to the Exhibit E and called out the names of all the actors who had signed in. The last one on the list was IP Dailey. For once in my life I was not screaming at the top of my lungs. I was very calmly and quietly announcing the names and asking them to come into my studio for a group explanation. I kept saying, “Who is ip? Ip? EYE PEE?? Who is ip or eye pee at Privilege?” An assistant in the studio next to me started laughing and said, “Kathleen, it’s a joke.” “What’s a joke?” “At least I THINK it’s a joke.” “WHAT’S a joke??” It took me almost five entire minutes to understand why it was a joke and that it was supposedly funny.As it turns out, my friend, Roman, totally Bart Simpson-ed me. Great. I still don’t think it’s funny.So yesterday, Brad was at the studios for an audition and I was in my office working when he came bounding in. “Guess what? Roman just got another one. Jay Hayden just stood in the lobby yelling, ‘I.P.! I.P.! Come on people! I.P.! Who is I.P.?’ You’re not the only gullible person around! Roman got Jay too!”And as it turns out, Jay was indeed standing in the middle of the lobby gesticulating with one arm and holding his other with his hand to his heart as if he was indicating that he indeed does pee daily.At least I’m not alone in this world.

And not only that, at the same time in another studio, there was a little people casting going on. So picture Jay standing in the middle of a packed lobby full of hundreds of normal sized people and 50 little people. Jay was a little embarrassed. He came back to the offices and was like, “Thanks alot, Roman. I’m standing out there making an ass of myself and there’s a pack of midgets laughing at me. You made the midgets laugh at me!!”

At least I didn’t make the midgets laugh.