From P.A. to TV Star - 2 True Hollywood Stories

Two former casting PA's, who sweat away 6 months of their prime "I just graduated college" era in LA jockeying a dub rack and fiddling with databases have traveled the circumference of the karmic circle. After making idiot people famous on reality TV, they have hit the airwaves themselves.

Sam Friedlander (Vanderbilt '00, Fear Factor PA '01, USC Film School '03) has made it to the final 9 of the 'Steve' Spielberg/Mark Burnett FOX reality show "On the Lot". The ratings "are in the toilet", so Sam is the only thing keeping it on the air.



Sam's genius 1 minute film, "Replication Theory" got rave reviews from Brett Ratner and Spielberg himself. A clever 60 second laugh awaits here. Please "Vote Sam" when the show airs on Tuesday nights at 8PM/7c.

Meanwhile Ryan Muldowney (Jefferson H.S. PA '01, Slippery Rock Univ. '05), Deal or No Deal Spanish PA '06) was re-discovered by Tyra Banks (Fat 'Dec 06, Skinny 'Summer '07). After catching the eye of a few NBC execs with his college talk-show Gettin' Later, Muldo first moved out to LA to PA on the spanish language version of Deal or No Deal.

Tyra handpicked Ryan as "the archetypal guy" who could take a cute young lesbian on her first ever coed date and convert her to men. Tyra called it "Dating outside your comfort zone." We called it "Tongue Action". See for yourself.

Congrats to both Sam and Ryan for bringing honor and accolade to reality casting departments everywhere - the real fame factories in Hollywood.