{"id":1504,"date":"2014-12-31T19:42:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/fun\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2014-12-31T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:42:54","slug":"hollywood-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Verbs<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>To schmooze &#8230; befriend scum<\/li>\n<li>To pitch &#8230; grovel shamelessly<\/li>\n<li>To brainstorm &#8230; feign preparedness<\/li>\n<li>To research &#8230; procrastinate indefinitely<\/li>\n<li>To network &#8230; spread misinformation<\/li>\n<li>To collaborate &#8230; argue incessantly<\/li>\n<li>To freelance &#8230; collect unemployment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Nouns<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Agent &#8230; frustrated lawyer<\/li>\n<li>Lawyer &#8230; frustrated producer<\/li>\n<li>Producer &#8230; frustrated writer<\/li>\n<li>Writer &#8230; frustrated director<\/li>\n<li>Director &#8230; frustrated actor<\/li>\n<li>Actor &#8230; frustrated human<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Compound Words<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>High concept &#8230; low brow<\/li>\n<li>Production values1 &#8230; gore<\/li>\n<li>Production values2 &#8230; explosions<\/li>\n<li>Entry level &#8230; pays nothing<\/li>\n<li>Network approved &#8230; has made them money before<\/li>\n<li>Highly qualified &#8230; blew the producer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Financial Terms<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Net &#8230; something that apparently doesn&#8217;t exist<\/li>\n<li>Gross &#8230; Michael Eisner&#8217;s salary<\/li>\n<li>Back End &#8230; you, if you think you&#8217;ll ever see any<\/li>\n<li>Residuals &#8230; braces for the kids<\/li>\n<li>Deferral &#8230; don&#8217;t hold your breath<\/li>\n<li>Points &#8230; see  &#8220;-Net&#8221; or &#8220;-Back End&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Common Phrases<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>You can trust me &#8230; You must be new<\/li>\n<li>It needs some polishing &#8230; Change everything<\/li>\n<li>It shows promise &#8230; It sucks<\/li>\n<li>It needs some fine tuning &#8230; Change everything<\/li>\n<li>She got great press &#8230; She&#8217;ll never live down the embarrassment<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;d like some input &#8230; I want total control<\/li>\n<li>It needs some honing &#8230; Change everything<\/li>\n<li>Call me back next week &#8230; Stay out of my life<\/li>\n<li>It needs some tightening &#8230; Change everything<\/li>\n<li>Try and punch it up &#8230; I have no idea what I want<\/li>\n<li>It needs some streamlining &#8230; Change everything<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s all up on the screen &#8230; You&#8217;ll never find the money I embezzled<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll never work in this town again &#8230; I have no power whatsoever<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verbs To schmooze &#8230; befriend scum To pitch &#8230; grovel shamelessly To brainstorm &#8230; feign preparedness To research &#8230; procrastinate indefinitely To network &#8230; spread misinformation To collaborate &#8230; argue incessantly To freelance &#8230; collect unemployment Nouns Agent &#8230; frustrated lawyer Lawyer &#8230; frustrated producer Producer &#8230; frustrated writer Writer &#8230; frustrated director Director &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[492,795],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionaries","tag-definitions","tag-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}