Tenaya

The Travails of Tenaya

tenaya for risqueYou see, for the last six months or so, Tenaya has been having a devil of a time trying to find someone she believes in to represent her. As with all women that fall into the “atypically attractive” category, the work at the first of her “career” came fairly easily, but once the new naked girl aspect wears off, finding quality jobs to do becomes much more difficult. After Tenaya’s original manager had to go back to a more financially constant position in movie sales and no longer had the time to manage anymore, she found herself in a position all too many performers see all too quickly in the business. Much like the more traditional Hollywood actor or actress circumstances, quite simply too many people want too few available jobs. Basic supply and demand principles tell you that this not only drives the price for the service down, but it also will eventually limit the supply itself. People have to eat. Dreams do in fact die. (OK. So if “The dream never dies, just the dreamer,” it can at least go into a deep sleep for a very long time.)

Good management should not only be able to deal with this problem, but should more importantly be able to anticipate it as they’re making recommendations early in the career process. It’s not rocket science here, but it helps to at least pay attention to the history you’re living. Before taking her clothes off for a living, Tenaya spent 60 hours a week going door to door selling vacuum cleaners, and, yes, apparently people still do that. (Who knew?) She’s young, pretty, bright, witty, and doesn’t feel “entitled” to mega-cash just because genetics blessed her. Moreover, she doesn’t mind working hard. She’s even a Penthouse Pet, and there aren’t that many of those floating around.

So what seems to be the problem? Well, she lives a couple of hours outside of Los Angeles, and her car basically fails the reliability test. Also, she has the audacity to be in love, and doesn’t want to have sex with men in the movies, even though she revels in the sex with women she gets to have. … Now I’ve been rallying against the archaic thinking that male company owners have taken as gospel for years. For some reason without the “boy marking territory with ejaculate” segment at the conclusion of the scene, they think they haven’t really filmed a “sex scene” in the full sense. … I cannot claim to have ever understood the opinion; I can just tell you what they think. Also, helping Tenaya would necessarily involve a not insubstantial amount of time dealing with LA traffic. (They might consider that conversation time with her valuable rather than an irritation, though, but there I go again not accepting the conventional opinion of a manager’s role. I can be silly, can I not?)

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So representing Tenaya wouldn’t fall into the “easy” category, for sure, but since when was anything worthwhile ever easy anyway?

The crux of the fault here comes from the way that current agencies charge for their services. You may not know it, but the basic deal for talent today involves paying the agency a percentage (usually 10%) AND the company hiring the talent paying the agency a flat fee (usually $100). Again, it doesn’t take a PhD in Economics to see that the agency, allegedly set up to help the people that trust them, makes more money with a person working 10 days for $100, rather than one day for $1,000. They’ve set this entire system up to deal in volume — pure quantity over quality. And that sucks.

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