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THAT, my friend, is the million dollar question! As silly as this is going to sound, I think you have to know someone, or at least know someone who knows someone.

To give you an example of this, I'm not sure how Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson got their starts, but their little sisters, Jamie Lynn Spears, and Ashley Simpson got their starts because they knew someone - in their cases it was their older sisters.

Nicholas Cage, or should I say Nicholas Copola, whether he wants to admit it or not, got his start because he's the nephew of Francis Ford Copola. Harrison Ford got his start because he did some carpentry work in the home studio of someone in the business. The list of celebs that are in the business because they either knew someone, or are related to someone is quite long. To name just a few:

Ashley Judd (Daughter of Naomi, sister to Wynonna)
Liza Minelli (Daughter of Judy Garland)
Carrie Fisher (Daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher)
Drew Barrymore (The whole freaking family were Hollywood!)
The Baldwin Brothers (Who started first?)
Jacob Dylan (Son of Bob Dylan)
Tim McGraw (Son of Major league pitcher Tug McGraw)
Eagles (They were the backing band for Linda Ronstadt)
Jacob Marley (Son of Bob Marley)
Jim Belushi (Brother of John Belushi)
Jeff Porcaro (Drummer for Toto and countless other sessions - son of jazz drummer Joe Porcaro)

That's just the quick list off of the top of my head - they had aspirations of their own, knew someone in the business that could give them a boost, and that was that.

That's the kind of exposure you need - you need someone to put in a good word for you so that your material moves to the top of the heap and garners some attention as much because of who you are as it does for what it is. Now, if I knew who these folks were, you'd see my face on TV and in the movies all of the time!