Sometimes you just have
to take a page from Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky if you are going to get ahead
in the Hollywood entertainment game. He
wrote it and was basically told that someone else — with a name — would have to
star in the title role. He rolled the
dice, said all or nothing … the rest is history.
That’s what b-list (or is
it way down the list?) actor Brian Hooks (playing himself and directing) is
faced with in the Image Entertainment DVD release on Feb. 18 of Laughing
to the Bank.
When his idea for a
television series finds no takers — “Why would we want to do a production with
you?” Hooks decides that he will just
produce it himself … and that’s where the story begins, in a seedy Vegas hotel
room, with Hooks trying to piece together — for the benefit of a couple of
thugs who would like nothing better than to slap him silly — where the budget
money went after a night of celebrating.
Yes, he did pull off the
production money part, hence the celebration!!! We can also give you a hint as to what
happened to the cash … Fat Betty (Devyn Ashley) had something to do with its
disappearance!!!
Though a series of
flashbacks (basically sketch comedy bits by Hooks and his cast of characters)
we get his “Rocky” tale of just how difficult it is for a nobody to get a break
in Hollywood.
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