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Tuesday, October 13. 1992 The Daily Utah Chronicle Page Six Fesitaire Local access returns to Utah after stint do LA. Former 'Life Goes On' celebrity says Hollywood not for her BY LILLIAN HORNE Chronicle Feature Writer I V. tv A daughter's birth, Lanier learned she had been replaced. And while she misses the work, she believes Hollywood is not the place for her.

"I don't like the business. If it comes to me I'll do it, because I need the income. That's my compromise. If it doesn't, that's okay. I'll find other ways," she said.

School is the focus now and she is busy looking for those other ways to support herself and her daughter. "I'm taking a chemistry class now and trying to understand water the components of water. It's much easier to be water than it is to understand water," she said. Playing the part of water can be part of an actor's training, much like Lanier experienced in the intense actor training program. As a student, she would go to school from 8 a.m.

and then have rehearsals until 10 p.m., she said. Her big break came after she had auditioned for a part in the film Halloween which was filmed in Utah. "The casting director took a liking to me. She says, 'Move out to L.A.,' and I was like, 'Yeah, right. Sure, I've heard that one Lanier said.

"The next year I was sitting in my apartment and a knock came on my door, and this guy shoves a script in my face and says, 'We have to make a video audition Wednesday. Be in my office and read this. They want she said. Although Lanier didn't have an agent, the casting director had remembered her and tracked her down through the U. Back in Salt Lake City now, Lanier is grateful for the experience.

The money and insurance from the television series paid for her daughter's more than $40,000 in medical see "Lanier" on page eight From the usual perspective, Hollywood is a glorious, glamorous place where dreams come true. But that isn't always a correct image. One University of Utah student has been part of Hollywood and came back with a different perspective. Monique Lanier spent a year playing Paige on the television series Life Goes On. She left the show after her daughter Juliana born two months premature with serious birth defects.

"I think Hollywood sends out, at times, harmful myths that can affect people in a really negative way," she said. "I think human beings are more important than television." Lanier, 24, is a native Utahn and has been a professional actress for four years. She started as a freshman in the actor training program at the U. and acted in commercials and bit parts before joining the television series for its first year. Living in Los Angeles was a big change from Utah, and Lanier soon learned to dislike the environment there both the city and the business.

"L.A.'s a really disgusting place. When it would rain they'd put these pseudo-gates in from the ocean on the beach because the water was so toxic after it rained. And they'd shoot sewage out into the ocean," she said. "I worked 12 to 18 hours a day, five days a week. I never met anybody.

I never got out. I sat in. a warehouse in tight jeans and watched makeup all day. Yes, it was an incredible experience, but it's not this glorious step into Hollywood bliss," she said. Although she had planned to return to the show after her Monique Lanier sees acting as a way herself and her daughter.

go back to Hollywood to support Student intern wins national award, honors from company to make money and would only students from 400 campuses have participated, with an average of 500 students participating annually. Nearly 2,500 interns have chosen an insurance career after graduation. Every year Northwestern Mutual Life gives awards to the top 10 life insurance sellers across the country. Ishoy was ninth out of approximately 400 college agents. But Ishoy said winning the award wasn't his motivation for working hard.

"It's more like I am trying to pay the bills," he said. There is an annual Northwestern convention in Milwaukee. During a special banquet Ishoy was presented with a plaque honoring him as one of the top college agents in Northwestern. Northwestern Mutual has a great reputation, Ishoy said. Founded in 1857, it has grown to be the lOth-largest life insurance company.

Fortune magazine ranked Northwestern as the most admired insurance company. Northwestern is also ranked in the "top 10 of the best companies to work for in America," he said. The award has given him a lot see "intern" on page seven If li 11 jif. sLv 1 --C 1 I fi 'ss 1 Jul BY MATTHEW HENDRY Chronicle Feature Writer As the end of college grows nearer and the looming reality of bills, bills and more bills becomes apparent, a lot of college students depend on an internship to get practical experience to add to textbook knowledge gained in the classroom. Then there are people like Glen Ishoy who took his internship and turned it into a career.

Ish'oy i transferred to the University of Utah two years ago as a finance major. He attended the career fair where Northwestern Mutual Life was represented and became interested in the program they offer Ishoy caine into Northwestern -under internship status but has worked with it and made it a full-time job, under the college intern stttus. "I'm not your typical college intern. I basically work full tune, just like any other agent would," Ishoy said. Northwestern began its internship program in 1967.

Since then, more than 8,000 Glen Ishoy was honored as one of Northwestern Mutual Life's top insurance sellers in the country..