40 years in Atlanta

IN MY OPINION:

WILLIAM REYNOLDS:

As I'm sure you all know that we operate a talent agency (40 years in Atlanta)

We have a lot of new wannabes that want to be 'real players' in the film/tv industry.

Yet many, if not most have very little to no qualifications to be a player. This is

a brief story that I heard from Lee Strasberg arguably the greatest actor teacher that

ever lived.

Back in 1881, Nevada there was this professional gambler,,poker...not a bad one,

but he always went too far and ending up losing. His girlfriend was a dance hall girl

and she gave him his gambling money. Then in what would become eventually Las Vegas

he was playing poker and had almost all the money. There were only two 'players' left,

him and the guy that owned the saloon, the hotel, the stables, the town, everything. So after

the cards were dealt, the owner looked at him and said "everything that I own, against

all of the money (a ton) in front of you, just turn over our cards". And he took the bet>>

and won >>the entire town. Moral to this story became, and still is '" IF YOU WANT TO BE

A WINNER, YOU FIRST HAVE TO BE A PLAYER"

And I might add, "not a dreamer"

wr