I had no connections, and the fashion WORLD was a closed ELITE. So my mother made appointments for herself with three top Parisian makeup artists and spoke HIGHLY about me... she was my first publicist!
And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the SPHERE of CULTURE into our TWO remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries CLOSED down by AMERICAN rivals.
I am so unbelievably EXCITED to SHARE 'I Hope' with the world. After my 'Idol' chapter CLOSED, I knew this SONG was the one I WANTED to frame myself with.
I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's SAY you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 PERCENTGROSS margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't CARE that you only have 7 percent to play with.
People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical PLACE. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or SOMETHING. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas GOING on BEHIND closed doors.
I went to Spago once, EIGHT years ago. I had just closed a DEAL. I thought it WOULD be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a BAD table and nobody PAID any attention to me.