This is Part 1 of a 3 Part Episode.
Hoyt is a long time friend, an actor, writer, producer, Princeton graduate, the first male Supermodel...and a guy that got involved in a pseudo religious, doomsday cult. In fact, that's how we met and became friends.
See?
Even in the midst of a shit situation like a cult, a beautiful lifelong friendship can form.
In this episode we discuss...
- 5:07 Hoyt talks about his years at Princeton
- 6:25 He gets discovered…?
- 8:08 Fell in his lap
- 9:26 Commercials were his start
- 10:09 I don’t look like those guys
- 10:54 Lighting and camera angles are everything
- 11:34 Ford Models and Bruce Weber
- 12:45 I’ve got a test on Wednesday
- 14:40 You need a little bit of luck
- 16:01 The principle of scarcity
- 17:25 The Fashion Industry goes in cycles
- 18:26 Keeping perspective on his career
- 19:30 The female Supermodels were coming up, too
- 20:44 "Mashed potatoes" & Cindy Crawford
- 22:10 Hoyt starts to notice his “bread & butter”
- 23:23 The Pareto Principle
- 23:58 Where Hoyt’s drive to succeed came from
- 24:36 Nantucket and Frederick von Mierers
- 26:02 Free beer?!
- 26:30 New York City, fabulous friends & Studio 54
- 27:42 The Scotch Tape Bikini
- 28:24 It was a “Start Up”
- 29:35 The Ruth Montgomery connection
- 30:06 From serious journalism to “automatic writing” – 7 Best Sellers
- 31:05 Entering the Weird Zone
- 32:29 The beginning of The New Age Movement
- 33:15 Good amongst the Bad – Shades of Gray
- 35:04 Eternal Values
- 35:26 Ruth consults her “guides” about Freddy
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The Art of Being Dar - with Dar Dixon
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Dar is a half Iranian/half American white boy...born in Tehran.
Yes, Iran.
He's moved over 80 times.
He escaped the Iranian Revolution with, literally, the clothes on his back.
He even found himself in a cult...
And through every crazy thing that's happened, against insane odds, he's been succeeding in life & in Hollywood, for almost 30 years.
People with boring lives have boring stories.
Nothing boring here.
This...is The Art of Being Dar - with Dar Dixon