Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 07, 2012

Ya, you already have a job in a comic strip

Dad should have a bit more faith…

Many popular entertainers in the past were given the same discouraging advice by their family. However, they ignored it and pursued their dream and found success. /// I agree with Frank that Luann should enter the city talent contest. Because you never know who might be out there watching!

Get all the relevant experience you can!

YAY BOLLYWOOD!!!

It won’t cost you anything to TRY at the city level. Give it a go, and then keep on trying.

For those young people in the audience, what Frank has in his hands is called a “newspaper.” It’s just like the Internet, except everything you read about happened yesterday.

Dad’s just wearing his reality check glasses is all…

You can’t help it with the way Luann can get carried away.

@sunsohot It is NOT about faith. It is about a father wanting to protect his daughter from the lifestyle of hollywood.

Do the City Talent Show, Luann. Study hard and get into a college with a good drama department—there are actually quite a few, in most regions of the country and in various cost ranges. She what you can do there. Very few people make a financial success of show business, but there will always be community theatre for those bitten by the bug and permanently infected. I’ve seen it with my own eyes, both successes and failures….

Being a Hollywood actor is a hit or miss. Some actors do well and live healthy and normal while others f-k up. That would worry any parent. I think the same could be true for professional sports and singers – they also f-k up due to celebrity status, media, access to celeb parties and drugs, etc. Suddenly having millions can play with your head, priorities, emotions if they came from ordinary stock, being used to ordinary life, limited funds, budgeting, etc. Pretty much similar to lottery winners.

Yeah – the entertainment business was so wonderful, that when Bob Hope, probably the greatest commedian of all time, died, NBC didn’t even do a one hour special on him – afer he worked with them for practically 40 years. It was a travesty!

Look at all the hacks in Hollywood. ‘Making it’ in showbiz there certainly doesn’t mean you have talent. In fact, it probably means the opposite.

Brittany Spears isn’t even the next Brittany Spears.

It’s easy to have a successful show biz career in the funny papers. You just need a good writer!

Before anyone jumps in, Yes, I know. Paris is also an ex-felon and so was Nicole Richie although she was in jail only a few hours due to overcrowding and Paris only a month or less, also due to overcrowding. Lindsay was in the longest. That is the one thing these three have in common, however, Lindsay is the one who is a repeat offender. Paris was caught with some kind of drug in Las Vegas more recently but charges were dropped due to lack of evidence apparently. I wonder what the real story is. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Lindsay gets arrested again soon. She doesn’t look like she’s cleaned up her act and is together yet.

We’re all just terribly concerned that Luann doesn’t end up like them. Really.

Your Dad is RIGHT, Lu!You SHOULD Listen to Him.Besides, there are ENOUGH “No-Talents” running around LOOSE in the Country now, RUINING the Entertainment Business and….., Hey Frank! Turn BACK to Page 5! Hokey Smokes! There’s a SALE on COFFEE at Kroger!!!!!

Forget Hollywood, think Broadway. That is where the real talent is. Must be some reason they call it the “legitimate” theater. Tiffany should stick with Hollywood, she’s the type.

Am I sensing Greg thinking beyond the high school level here and making plans for the strip’s future? Luann, a year or so down the line, moving to New York and becoming kind of a “That Girl” trying to make it on Broadway?

Come on, Frank. You do nothing but sit on your backside and drink coffee all day. Your daughter does not have the drive for much else. She’ll never be a homemaker if she can’t get past a kiss. Let her give a try at doing what she is already good at.

My kids started out in elementary school reading the comics, and now, in HS, read much of the paper everyday, as do I. None of us give a lick about the tabloid celebs.

Seriously…if you REALLY want to appear on stage, go LOCAL.Hollywood will turn you into a pole dancer and have you turning tricks, and if they can stick a needle in you( the first one is FREE!) you’ll be dead before thirty.

More kids climb off buses in L.A. where they are almost IMMEDIATELY met and chummed by pros who know where to look.

If you have enough cojones to make a complete film, the equipment is cheap. Getting it OUT THERE can be done, but prepare to deal with hundreds of lawyers who are lifetime sharper about THAT than you are. Luann CERTAINLY can’t write a complete script, so she’s SOL.

You want to be an entertainer, you’d be better of in the ARMY. Their troupes tour and get good duty and get to practice their arts and still become fully grown humans.

Bollywood might be OK, Mexico has some freedom there, and blonde girls still get breaks there and in Japan.

If Luann wants to ‘make it’ in entertainment…the MOST competitive field in the WORLD, she needs her very OWN Mafia. Dad doesn’t count at all, and what’s in it for THEM?

Don’t forget your Aussie buddy,Luann. Say what have you two been up to since we last saw you?? ;)PLUS Luann already has a posse…her freinds. Do the Talent show Luann. Do it. WIN it.

We have already heard her sing. Anybody remember “I’m A Snot”? or Hey Boy?

OK, now that we have done in lawyers and actors, does anybody have dirt on veterinarians? Or is Bernice safe from evil doing?

Show business is for narcissists and jerks

Uh-oh. Another showdown with Tiffany, in which Sheraton wins by manipulating the process or the “deserving” Luann wins and gets an audition with Elvis Jr. Hope we get something more original! Like…

Luann does a bellydance and scandalizes Pop.Tiff actually shows some talent.Gunther gets on stage & blows everyone away rather than designing costumes.Little Girl Shannon wins everyone’s heart by singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

Anyone else?

I’ve heard Luann sing in “hey boy”… she doesn’t have any talent…

I was born in Hollywood. Don’t knock it.People can be stupid anywhere.The stupid gals mentioned are products of the commercial media, the ‘anything for money’ syndrome.

Yeah, both “Hey Boy” and “I’m a Snot” were, uhh, well…never mind.

Dad’s right: Luann should try the local talent show first. If she’s that good, she’ll move on to bigger and better.

Oh, and since we’re on the topic of role models, a good one would be Taylor Swift. Her music’s fairly forgettable, but she’s been a class act since she became a country music star while still in high school.

FREE BRITNEY. There’s no way anyone would have guardianship of a 31 year old bipolar woman except for the fact that she’s a money machine. Britney is a slave to her managers.20 years from now it’ll be like the Brian Wilson story. Gee why didn’t somebody free Britney from Dr. Landy.

“I’m talking about a career in showbiz.”Worked for Reagan.

Yes, a few people succeed in show business. But Dad wants to keep Luann from becoming one of the vast majority of wannabes whose dreams are crushed.

Parents want their kids to do something practical.

President John Adams said: “I must study Politicks and War that my sons study Commerce and Agriculture in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry and Porcelain”

At the rate Luann ages, Greg will be about 90 when she finishes high school. He and we would not live long enough to see her finish college or have any kind of career.

yeah – come on Greg, pick up the pace.

When Gregg does retire or check out it would be a shame for Luann go the way of Gasoline Alley. The strip should just be retired or go the classics route like Peanuts.

Let this be Plan B or C – and consider it an avocation, or hobby. “Don’t give up your day job.” And just maybe, lightning will strike.

I have a great idea. Have the strip “flash forward” about 10 years. That would open up all kinds of opportunities and plot lines. Luann would be established in her career, whatever it may be. She may or may not be married (to Gunther?) with or without children. Frank and Nancy would be gray haired, playing with their grand children, via Brad and Toni. All the other characters would be further developed also. Use your imagination.

I got it!!!!

Rosa will want to do a tango or flamenco dance at the City Talent Show, and she will enlist Gunther to be her partner. He will be awkward and humiliated, but he can’t say “no”. Thus he begins to get over his shyness.

if Tiffany can make it in Hollywood, surely Luann can too.

A hint to young people thinking about a career in the arts: just do it. Don’t bother talking about it with your family unless you have family that are already arts professionals. Just find a mentor and do it.

Jeez, that’s not so much a lack of faith as it is enemy fire. What kind of band was it?

This comic strip should be a TV show. The story lines are great (most of them) and the characters have depth and difference from each other. If appropriate casts are made, this show could be a hit!

Dad keeping it real. Clearly he has not heard ‘Hey Boy’=)

Interesting that when this arc started, Luann was the only one of the Three Amigas who didn’t know what she wanted to do with her life after high school. We’ll see soon enough how sold she is on being an entertainer for a living if/when she hits a bump in the road.

How about having the characters in this comic strip being introduced to the various items of the “drug world?” Which character would do what specific substance?

Just remember Brittany Spears and Lindsay Lohan started as Mouseketeers. Innocence to ???? in a few years.

Exactly – and I bet he wishes he could forget Myra Breckinridge, too. There’s no longer a studio system that discovers you, grooms you, and trains you, so Lana Turner is still the only one I know of who picked up a movie career at Schwab’s Drugstore. .You can come to the entertainment industry by way of modelling, athletics, music, dance, stand-up comedy, dramatic arts school/college, children’s acting classes, nepotism – and if you’re horribly, wonderfully lucky, through a reality show – but I can’t think of anyone nowadays who’s actually been discovered overnight. .The stars I can think of that were spotted by talent agents out of sheer dumb luck, like Gretchen Mol, all had some form of dramatic training or modelling experience, which is probably what made them stand out in the first place.

get a life people this is a comic strip!