Legitimate talent agents and personal managers do not advertise in the Want Ad section of any newspaper or in the trade papers. An ad that solicits “new faces” for commercials, for modeling, or for films and then implies that experience is unnecessary and suggests that high salaries are waiting to be paid to the first people who answer the ad, is a phony.
Beware of any person who, representing himself or herself as an agent or manager, asks you to read sample copy for a dramatic scene or as a commercial test, who then agrees that you have “talent” but that it needs to be “developed,” and who next suggests that you attend a particular school or study with a particular teacher to whom he or she recommends all of his “clients.” Such a person is either a phony
(getting a kickback from the recommended school or teacher) or a very stupid operator. In either case, such a person is not one who can be of value to your career.
