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 […]
Is it possible to have fun with any 2020 list? Or should we just flush this whole freaking year? Let’s try to have some fun. Here’s a quiz: I’ll give you the Top Box office movies for 2019-2020. I’ll also give you the name of the writer for each movie. Then I’ll give you the […]
Hello Good Reader… Far down the list of humanitarian disasters the COVID-19 virus has wrought is what it’s done to landscape of trying to sell a feature-length film. For 2020 the elementary takeaway was that while Hollywood has been on hiatus, so has the buying of properties. But conversations I’ve had with a few people […]
