FYI:
Regards,Martin Short has had a sneaky good career in Hollywood going on four decades or so.
He was on Saturday Night Live for just one season in the mid-1980s but that led to movies like Three Amigos, Innerspace, Three Fugitives (underrated if memory serves), Father of the Bride, Captain Ron (loved this one) and many more.
Short has said, “I still feel that I’m two films short of making the Oscars-night memorial reel,” but his staying power in the fickle world of Hollywood is impressive.
His book, I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend, chronicles his personal life and career, from the early days when he was on SCTV in Canada, working with the likes of John Candy, Paul Shaffer, Eugene Levy, Dan Akroyd, and Gilda Radner.
After three years of consistent employment as an actor, work dried up for him in the late-1970s, just as he thought his career was about to take off.
He shared, “This was a new experience for me: a frustrating state of professional limbo. I resented that, as I saw it, my fate was somehow no longer in my own hands. It really felt as if the world was conspiring against me.”
He knew his career would be filled with hot and cold streaks because that’s how show business works so he devised a self-evaluation system called the Nine Categories to objectively weigh the good with the bad in his life. They are as follows:
Regards,
Ted
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2018/10/martin-shorts-nine-categories-for-self-evaluation/My Little Buttercup:
