Mystery Goes Mainstream

**Reposted from the first Lair, original date: 2/2/04

Well, it seems Ross isn’t the only one who got a lot of attention from the New York Times article. Apparently, Mystery has been bombarded with a slew of offers from pretty much every major news magazine on TV. He has been approached to be on Good Morning America, 20/20, and Primetime to name a few. He’s approaching most of these shows with caution, mostly because he seems to know that they are going to try and paint him in the worst possible light they can.

Not only that, but Mystery has been courted by two MAJOR stations to have his own show. The producer’s of FOX’s American Idol have contacted Mystery and are in serious talks to give him his own special, though the format of the show is unknown at this time. Likewise, VH1 has also contacted Mystery, but with a more concrete offer. In fact, they are flying him out to New York to meet with the VH1 brass about the nature of the show. I’m told that it is probably going to be a series where Mystery takes a bunch of hopeless AFCs and turns them into real ladies men — a type of ”Straight Eye for the Pathetic Guy” type scenereo. MTV did this type of show with David Wygan, but it apparently didn’t do too well, mostly because it was more of a make-over show than anything else. According to Mystery, the VH1 show would be much more about teaching guys the Art of PUA than simply giving them a new haircut and super-uber peacocking gear.

Not only does Hollywood seem to be courting him, but Mystery’s seminar/workshop business has also seemed to have benefitted from the article. I met with Mystery this weekend after a workshop which he deemed very successful. I’m also told that his personal one-on-one workshops are also becoming quite popular, which is probably the impetus for his VH1 series, should it go through.

************(name removed) is also doing his part to help keep the gravy train rolling by introducing Mystery to a number of entertainment industry big-wigs, as well as getting him in the door at the William Morris Agency, which could end up representing him. Couple all this with the fact that Mystery is now writing a book — which now stands a good chance to be picked up by a major publisher — and 2004 could be the year for Erik von Markovik.

Also, new video footage of Mystery has popped up on the net. It’s a fairly short 3 minute piece of Mystery doing a monologue on Sunset Blvd. Maybe a precursor of things to come? Or more likely a promotional tool? Perhaps a bit of both? I guess we’ll see. You can view it here.

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