You don’t hear much about Brad Pitt reminiscing over his laborious days at El Pollo Loco in downtown L.A. or how Johnny Depp used to work as an over-the-phone salesman before landing a role in Nightmare on Elm Street. The trials and tribulations of a struggling actor are quickly forgotten when they finally get their big break. Until that break does come, life isn’t always a sack of rainbows.

The road to success can be long and tedious, and yes, pretty rewarding once you make it. But the unfortunate truth is – no one really cares if Joe Actor had to sleep in a van while he tried to make his dreams come true. It’s a reality of the business that almost everyone in acting has to deal with at some point. So for all of them, here’s a story from the road.

Every Friday we feature a “Weekend Dish” recipe for you guys to try out, and we hope you’ve enjoyed them. Now, we want to see some of your recipes. Tell us about your dish, the recipe you use to whip it up, and once it’s all cooked and pretty, snap a picture of your plate and send it in. Every week’s winner will be featured as our new Weekend Dish! This week's winner is...

Back before plastic surgery made the leap to what it is today, people had to settle with whatever faces they were born with. All things considered, that was probably a good thing. People used to look at pictures of their celebrity idols in magazines and say, “I wish I looked like that.” Now, they tear the same picture right out of the magazine, walk into a plastic surgeon’s office and say, “I want you to make me look like that,” even though it’s never quite that easy.

Even as recently as the last few weeks, a ton of stories have emerged in the media about Heidi Montag, reality star of that show The Hills, getting 10 plastic surgeries in the same day to become what she describes as, “A better, more improved version…” of herself. She’s 23 years old and already bears almost no resemblance to the person she was as recently as last year.

Here are three more quick examples of cosmetic surgery weirdness that might make you think twice about going under the knife for superficial reasons…

Chatting with screenwriter Michael Konyves over coffee, he admits to us that the last time he tried Googling his own name, the only pictures that appeared were of Dustin Hoffman and Paul Giamatti. For a writer looking to establish themselves among the entertainment industry’s elite, that’s a big step in the right direction. A Montreal native, Konyves recently succeeded in adapting Mordecai Richler’s international bestselling novel Barney’s Version for the big screen. The film, starring Oscar-winners Hoffman and Giamatti, marks Konyves highest-profile project to date.

Konyves talks to Bitchin’ Lifestyle about Barney’s Version, the realities of what it takes to make it as a screenwriter and the pros and cons of movie-making on both sides of the border.

There was a time not so long ago, where being a famous celebrity and having talent went hand in hand. You can thank Reality TV for changing all that. Today, those who manage to get themselves in front of a camera get the chance to succeed strictly based on being detestable idiots, and often the bigger the idiot, the more fame their idiocy attracts. For fifteen minutes or so anyways…

We thought it’d be fun to take a year-by-year look back at the last 10 years of reality programming to see where it began, where it’s at now and all the good, bad and downright ridiculous shows that filled in the gaps along the way.