Hey all… Sorry for the long delay in posting, with the two shots of Pfizer vaccine I have finally made it out of Chicago after a 15 month self-imposed exile. I’ve been on the road roughing it in Costa Rica… Maybe someday I’ll find a way to connect 2020/COVID to screenwriting (or in my case, […]
Amazing New York Times offering, director commentary is the best. Learned a lot from this series, especially on the directing front. Here’s a sampling… BOMBSHELL FORD VS. FERRARI THE LIGHTHOUSE JOKER AD ASTRA
Oh yeah, this one needs to come out of mothballs. Written many years ago by my friend Scott Foley, ex-fellow Columbia teacher, after raising his goal of $25,000 on Kickstarter for his micro-budget project JESSICA. It’s an article he published in two influential blogs, Indiewire and Ted Hope’s blog. It’s the honest backstory of how […]
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 […]
