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FROM SHARING her one-bedroom North Vancouver
apartment with the clutter of.a home business, Dot Bristow
has become one of Vancouver’s top talent agents.

‘A former CBC national casting
director, Bristow was working as a
talent agent for John Casablancas
in-1982, when, for personal
reasons, she decided to split from
the Vancouver agency and strike
out on her own. »

tually if they work hard and ree
main dedicated to their craft; for
Bristow there are no hopeful ac-
tors, for hopeful. mans something
to come,

“You can find your girlfriend,

_.!'Old enough to have the sense

not to tell,” Bristow will not reveal STEPHEN

her age, reasoning the entertain. _

ment industry is particularly fond
of slotting people into pigeonholes.
:, Sharing her bedroom with a
photocopier, she built her client
list.to the present 60-strong roster .
of performers and writers that in-
cludes notables such as Nicola.
Cavendish, Scanners’. Robert *
Silverman, ‘and The Beachcombers’

-when she was five years old, starr-.
-ing ina baby commercial; next was.
singing a la Shirley Temple until “Te
ealized what I was doing and got
. & Inassive case Of stage fright.’’
“She reminds up-and-coming ac-
tors that success will come even: :

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feature writer

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your mother and your dog who tell

you you’re great. Or you can find —

five people who tell you you're °

bad,” she notes. “It 's who you

choose to listen to." * :
‘A business where rejection as

: “tittle to do with talent — wrong ..

"hairstyle, too tall, too short, wrong
build — “is very difficult to.
- resolve for the person who by and.
-” Jarge has no control over. it.”’

“*But if you can get the acting to
a level where the acting blows them

away, they'll rewrite the part or

‘change the fook."’

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_, best.

From ber Vancouver office, her

day is filled with ACTRA dealings,

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ENTERTAINMENT AGENT Dot Bristow — tells her clients “to
have a handle on who you are,’’ as success will come eventually.

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meetings with her writers, calis
from clients and the daily duties |
involved in running the agency.
With millions of dollars of film-
and television producticn in Van-
couver this year opening the way
to more parts, the focal entestain-

ment business is growing, and |
Bristow sees it as a duty to nurture
this industry.

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gentlemen of unsurpessed ‘equilibrium as

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‘We're beginning to make. hey vr
(L.A.’s film industry) aware that
we've got some good talent here,

‘good crews. We've got it here, .

there’s no reason why we can'tdo
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Asan agent, she will not repre-- .
sent anyone she docs not like, and

’ will not represent more than one.
“type of performer or writer — thus

being able to represent that person J

Her advice to actors “We' rein] kc?

the business of selling enthusiasm:
- and dreams. You can be a star one

‘day and nobody the: next day You
have to have a handle. on who you,
are."

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