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Sly reflects on how he writes a lot and auditions again. He goes to a Woody Allen audition and is told he isn’t intimidating enough. That really gets him and he rejects rejection. He gets gel and slicks back his hair and comes back and gets the part. No is now a maybe to him. Sly becomes his roles and can get angry and use it to his advantage. He used it in an a challenge against Peter who was much bigger.

Sly is very lonely in the city and tries and auditions a lot. He isn’t given the chance to even fail. He encounters a man named Moondog who is blind and occupies a certain corner. Sly won’t give up on himself since Moondog is doing what he’s doing. He finds a job at a theater as an usher and is treated more like an object. Francis Ford Coppola wants to talk to Sly. Sly smashes his cake because of a long wait.

Sly works at the deli in the basement. He also auditions for a musical to.Sly reflects on not giving up and how he was much more creative than he appeared. At the deli the trash man comes and directs them to get the trash for them. Sly is directed to tell them that they’re using a different trash company. He gets into a physical confrontation and ends up in jail. Sly says this is the end of his time at the deli

Sly has to find another job if he wants to visit agents. He gets a job cleaning the lions cages, but ends up quitting because of the smell. Auditioning more he finds out that someone thinks his look is offsetting and tells him he won’t make it. Sly does a monologue one day and Dr. David Swanson tells him he an ability. He goes and gets professional photos. Sly gets a job at a deli and things are on the up.

Sly eventually fits himself a place at the Sutton Hotel which is very bad, but it’s what he could afford. He finds the yellow pages which has a bunch of agents and numbers on it. Sly wants to meet with a lot. He isn’t able to meet many . Sly meets Ed who introduces him to someone. While showing him stuff he finds someone else there and tells. He leaves and figures he did a good job putting himself out there.

Sly reflects on this fortune teller he met while backpacking in Europe and how she could tell him his future. Ironically everything sounded like what she said did work out from my pov. He went to the University of Miami to act and didn’t do to hot so he wants to go back to NYC. Sly grew up pretty poor in New York and his parents fought a lot. He was sent to boarding school. Now he’s in NYC figuring it out.