Hard Lessons About Fame, Success, and Self-Worth
A review of Somebody, Somewhere
8 min readMar 7, 2022
A friend of mine, now in their 40s, went to a prestigious performing arts magnet school to train as an actor. After that thorough inculcation of the brutal norms and expectations of show business, this friend chose to abandon their path to stardom and instead studied anthropology in college. In those college years, I first met…
