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Holy Headshot!: A Celebration of America's Undiscovered Talent | 
 enlarge | Authors: Patrick Borelli, Douglas Gorenstein
Creator: David Cross
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Category: Book
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 178171
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 1416591125
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430280973
EAN: 9781416591122
ASIN: 1416591125
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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Product Description
Holy Headshot! is an amazing collection of the funniest, strangest, most captivating performers' headshots and resumes you have ever seen. The book throws open the door to the casting director's office and gives an entertaining peek into the amazing -- and sometimes bizarre -- world of show business. Authors Patrick Borelli and Douglas Gorenstein pored over 50,000 headshots to put together this remarkable gallery, which showcases everyone from aspiring amateurs who are striving to live out their Hollywood dreams to seasoned professionals that you might recognize from the big screen. A celebration of our national obsession with getting famous, Holy Headshot! offers up plenty of "What were they thinking!?" hilarity, but just as often you'll find yourself rooting for the characters that populate its pages.
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Very Entertaining December 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is especially for people who are celebrity nuts, or who have worked in the business, or would like to.
It will tell you what to do, what not to do and gives great examples for resumes even with very very very little experience.
Photos are sometimes a howl, sometimes enlightening.
This book shows you that there's plenty of work out there, even if you're not Tom Cruise. When you think about it, there must be ten times the work for character actors.
Look for "George" from the Golden Girls. (Blanche's dead hubby)
FUN!
Interesting enough, especially if you're in the industry November 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you've ever sent out a casting call or had to review resumes/headshots/auditions, you most certainly will find the profiles and headshots in this book interesting and amusing, as did I. However, for those who are not in the industry, I find it hard to believe it would be of great interest.
 If you like to laugh buy this book. November 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I happened upon this book in the book store & began flipping through it. Then I bought it. Then I couldn't put it down. It had me doubled over. Sometimes it's the photo that grabs you and other times it's a turn of a phrase
in the actor's resume...or just one little thing. This book is funny every time you pick it up. And it doesn't seem to stop being funny. But Seriously folks, buy this book.
 More Pitiful Than Funny November 13, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Holy Headshot! is a soft cover coffee table book that can easily be dipped into at any point and left to browse more later. On the left side of each two page spread is the actor or hopeful actor's photograph (headshot) and on the right side is the resume they used to try to find employment in the acting industry.
That's it. Just as the casting directors are left with these images and resumes, that is what the reader is provided. What is to be thought of these is up to the reader.
There is no commentary, no discussion. The reader is left to interpret the images and resumes.
The most fun for me was trying to figure these people out. Why did they choose that photo? What do they think that portrait says about who they are? What kind of acting job are they trying to get with that image?
Some of the actors in the book did go on to have a career in acting and were recognizable enough for me to pick out. (I am not a celebrity watcher either.)
Some of the resumes are completely boring and have nothing funny or entertaining about them, so the reason they were picked was just for their headshots. Other resumes are full of poor English grammar or spelling mistakes that give us insight to the person and leave us wondering how they could expect to get a job after turning THAT in? and why are they telling THAT information about themselves? At times the resume explains something, such as the hideous clothing in a headshot is explained in the resume as them having a talent with fashion--not. Sometimes I was thinking, "Just what was this person thinking?"
Some of the photos are so bizarre that the publisher must expect the reader to enjoy laughing at them, especially since this was published in the humor genre. I didn't feel right about it as sometimes what I was actually feeling was pity. Being put in that position to be expected to laugh at these people, I felt a bit like I was carried back to middle school, where kids judged each other solely on their physical appearances and where a physical oddity or sheer ugliness was expected to be focused upon and used against the person, to laugh and scoff at. However, I was able to pick out some familiar faces, so even those headshots which seemed quirky did work and indeed the people can act. That left me thinking this Hollywood business may be truly a crap shoot. I also realized that the job of a talent scout or anyone who can use these headshots and resumes to find talent or match characters to a role must have a special talent which is foreign to me. I just can't imagine relying on these shots and resumes to cast actors.
The promotional materials from the publisher states this is "an amazing collection of the funniest, strangest, most captivating performers' headshots and resumes you have ever seen". That is overstating it a bit, after reviewing 50,000 images these are the best 200 or so? That's debatable.
Shows that being original can pay off... November 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is truly is a celebration of undiscovered talent. The premise of this book is that the authors (editors?) looked through over 50,000 headshots and resumes of people looking for work in the entertainment industry.
They bypassed the "normal" glamor shots, and instead focused on the unique, interesting and bizarre. Most of the images included in the book manage to stand out in some way, and many actually show the actor in an unpleasant light - and I have a feeling, that oftentimes this will probably work to their advantage. Because there can only be so many leading men and women in Hollywood. We need all those interesting, geeky, quirky and average folks to make up the secondary casting. We need the "character" actors that show up in everything (Like a Stephen Tobolosky) but whose names you cannot place.
Second to the headshot comes the resume...or lack therefore of. Many of these people have no acting experience outside high school, or local community theater. Some go so far as to write "letters" instead of a resume - explaining why they should be given the chance at an acting role, or an explanation on how/why they decided to get a job in the industry. "I was on-line looking up different websites when I came across explore talent's web page and I thought it would be an excellent opportunity for me so I signed up for it." or "I had always wanted to be in film and television but saw myself as having a face for radio and a voice for silent movies."
And lastly, I couldn't stop giggling at the different kinds of "special skills" that people would list on their resume, such as:
Quiltmaker
Yard Work
I can grow a beard quickly
Above Reproach Table Manners
Speed Reading
Can Snap Fingers Off Anything
Loves Boxing
I love this book. It gives me hope.
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