This article is dedicated to my brother Chris, and his 17+ year Don Quixote’s journey to make Black Wings Has My Angel. I’ve kept it in a metal box buried in the backyard because for seven years because my brother refused to allow its publication, but the time is finally right. Radioactive half-life, attained. Even […]
“Physical comedy is a form of comedy focused on manipulation of the body for a humorous effect. It can include slapstick, clowning, mime, physical stunts, or making funny faces.[1] Physical comedy originated as part of the Commedia dell’arte.[2] “–WIKIPEDIA This is a screenwriting blog. But sometimes the laugh isn’t in dialogue. Sometimes actor business steals the scene. It’s in a piece of physical […]
Hello Good Reader… The French poet Lautreamont in his master work Les Chants de Maldorer spoke of having no time for lunch due to his pursuit of the ostrich across the painted desert– much like that “Super Genius”, Wil-E-Coyote… What’s this got to do with screenwriting? Zero! Other than, perhaps, your relentless pursuit to […]
Columbia College. This is where I’ve made a living for 20 years. I wanted to put up some of my favorite videos here that I like to screen at Columbia. Thought you might be interested. Have dozens of student flicks but haven’t the right to post those. But these are out in the world and […]
“I am in the smallest room of my house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.”—Max Reger Paraphrasing here, when Samuel Beckett wrote of the ugliest word in the English language: “C-r-i-t-i-c”. Charles Bukowski once wrote me about this subject. I was complaining about a bad review. He told me: “You […]
