HOLLYWOOD UNDERGROUND is the true story about how I lived inside two major movie studio lots for three years in pursuit of my dream to work in show business. Armed with a few screenplays I’d written, a short film some friends and I had made and some extra clothes, at the age of twenty-seven, I jumped a blue line train from Long Beach to Hollywood. After being on the streets of Hollywood, I walked into Sunset Gower Studios via a slightly opened door and would live there for a few months, getting auditions from a casting agent, placing my screenplays on a production office desk and trying to make connections for subsequent work. After three months living inside a cable cubby atop STAGE 1 at Sunset Gower Studios, where they filmed Who’s The Boss? and From Here To Eternity, I was found out by some Gaffers who were working on a new production. That night after I’d left, I jumped the fence of Paramount Studios and would live inside the historic movie lot for the next three years eating from the craft service tables of various TV shows: Becker, Roswell, Judging Amy, The Amanda Show, Frasier, various failed TV pilots and the movie, Fifteen Minutes, to name just a few. During this time, I met various TV and film actors, as well as show business people and slept in an outdoor ivy-covered catwalk attached to Star Trek: The Next Generation, where after being found out there by landscapers, I would make the catwalks of STAGE 30 my home, where they filmed Soul Train. In all honesty, I survived by acting like I worked at various other places throughout the movie lot and realizing that I was acting to merely survive rather than receiving a paycheck. Written by Jim Rice 7-15-2015