Writing up blog posts on a sunny July day, what is wrong with you, Peditto? The notion here is that I’ve got tons of videos I use for classes at Columbia College-Chicago stuck on a Canvas site. The time has come to liberate them. The current plan is for these videos to see the light […]
Sal Pelligrino was the man. While no one ever confused him for Brando or Jimmy Dean, his rep was made as the inventor of “The Method”. Not Stanislavsky’s, but his own time tested system. A commercial actor with a knack, Sal could close the deal on any commercial/Extra work he put his mind to, not […]
Greetings Good Reader… Today’s topic will be…Screenwriting Format! I get it. Nothing could be less sexy. Why should you have to deal with a screenwriting subject that tastes like caster oil (for you Millennials, caster oil was given to us Boomers as a treatment for constipation–which might, in part, explain the current state of the […]
WHY I WALKED OUT ON LITTLE CHILDREN I made a vow: “If I hear that voice-over again, I’m walking.” There’s Kate Winslet approaching a playground: “Many times Mary would take her child to the playground.” Kate swings her kid in the swing. “She loved to swing her kid on the swing.” Kate looks to a […]
Ah, the CTA! I hope this one brings back nostalgia of dirty subway cars past. I haven’t stepped foot in a subway in seven months. Have you? The idea of being stuck at rush-hour with a hundred mouth-breathing COVID breeders keeps me far away. Remember being packed in there close enough to hear five conversations […]
