Today’s Oracle takes us to the Leo weekly April 9, 1999
Often we get the perception that famous people just waltzed effortlessly into their success, without realizing they go through the same bullshit as the rest of us. I offer the following examples of Great Rejections in History from a fabulous book I just discovered called, The Experts Speak. Here goes. An MGM executive, commenting on Fred Astaire’s screen test, said, “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Balding. Can dance a little.” An omniscient MGM big shot also predicted that Gone with the Wind would flop because, “No Civil War picture ever made a nickel.” Then there was the Universal Pictures exec who told Burt Reynolds, “You have no talent,” and incredibly, in the same meeting, informed Clint Eastwood, “You have a chip on your tooth, your Adam’s apple sticks out too far, and you talk too slow.” Ah yes, thank God for the opinions of brilliant men. And thank God for chutzpah.
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