The Big Break with Author Vicki Abelson

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4.1 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2012

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Author/Talkshow Host, Vicki Abelson (Jump! Women Who Write) talks about her first "Big Break" which involves Billy Crystal. Or does it?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Vicki Abelson, and you're listening to Storyworthy, and if you're lucky, I'll be cursing.
0:15.2	Welcome to the Story Worthy, and here are your hosts, Christine Blackburn and Honest Finney.
0:31.2	Welcome to Storyworthy.
0:32.7	I am Christine Blackburn, and I'm here with Hannes Finney, and we're coming to you from Schwabbs
0:37.2	Pharmacy on Sunset Boulevard. Oh, I get what you're getting at. Okay, because Schwab's Pharmacy was where Lana Turner was so-called discovered. Exactly. Discovered by director Mervyn Leroy while at the soda counter at Schwab. She was wearing a tight sweater. He approached her. She was 16 years old. Am I right?
0:55.5	That's true. However, the actual location was not Schwabes, but another Sunset Boulevard establishment, the Top Hat Cafe. We're just, but we don't, that does us no good. We're going with, you know what they say at the end of the man who shot Liberty Valance? What? When the legend becomes the truth, What?
1:10.1	Print the legend.
1:11.1	Print the legend.
1:12.1	I like that.
1:12.9	Well, also, I know this about Lana Turner and that little story. Is that happened that the top hat was right across from where the laugh factories now. So it's sunset and crescent Heights. All right, you guys, the reason why Honest is talking about Schwab Drugstore, Lana Turner, is because that is
1:27.9	apparently how she got her big break.
1:29.3	Right.
1:29.6	Our topic is the big break.
1:31.9	That's right. And our guest tonight is Vicki Abelson. Vicki Abelson. Vicki Abelson, you know, Honest, she's an actor, she's a director. She just does all sorts of things, am I right? Right. But her big break is obviously going to be here tonight
1:41.8	appearing on this show.
1:44.2	Do you believe in the big break on us?
1:46.0	Do you think there's such a thing?
1:47.0	No, it's like the over- break is obviously going to be here tonight appearing on this show. Do you believe in the big break on us?
1:46.0	Do you think there's such a thing?
1:47.0	No, it's like the overnight success.
1:49.0	It's like every, you know, it's an old cliche.
1:51.6	An overnight success takes about 10 or 20 years.
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