Carlton Hislop

…For a moment, Carlton Hislop wandered down the twisting path that one calls life, and on that rambling route, he stopped at the door of his former employer, Gordon Stenberg, who was the first to recognize young Hislop’s potential in the movie world of Xanadu. Prior to this momentous meeting, Hislop was studying business at Stanford, and it was there, in those hallowed halls of academia, he learnt about the infinite possibilities of making money from movies. So impressed by the mercantile promise of films, young Carlton Hislop (with a help of a friend in Xanadu) wrote a series of impassioned letters to all the major studios asking as to whether they would consider him for an internship. Out of all those studios, only Gordon Stenberg offered him a position on the proviso that he …show more content…
Without a second thought, Carlton packed his bags and returned south to Tinsel town with an indomitable willpower to succeed when others had failed spectacularly.

Hislop smiled as he recalled meeting Stenberg since it was on one of those unusual days when a large embankment of clouds shrouded the sun, obscuring its aureole purity. And as, he slowly sauntered towards Stenberg’s office all that the young Hislop could think of was essentially, “For goodness sake, don’t fuck up this opportunity.” He took a deep breath and entered. While he waited in the opulent chamber with its numerous little gold statues that lined the glass cabinet, Hislop desired these tokens of success more than ever, and he was quite willing to do just about anything – even if it meant surrendering his soul – to achieve it. At any rate, Stenberg was more than impressed by his ambition, for he saw in Hislop’s eyes the