I think our standards for entertainment are plummeting further and further. We can do better people! Let’s raise the bar. We’re not in the 7th grade anymore. Well I mean…I’m not in the 7th grade anymore. I suppose it’s entirely possible that someone reading this might be… You might be in the 7th grade for [...]
How to become a famous Hollywood celebrity (listed in order of critical importance): 1. Be really, really, really ridiculously good looking. 2. Learn to act. Y’know. If you can. No big thing though. Clearly you can do without that part.
Sometimes writing for different characters can be a bit of a challenge. Recently I finished the first draft of my -cough- highly anticipated screenplay, and I find that the character that gave me the most difficulty was my main protagonist. I worried sometimes that he was being overshadowed by more dynamic characters, and that his [...]
Someday I will make a movie. It will be glorious. I’ve even finished the first draft of my screenplay. So all I really need is the one-hundred thousand or so dollars to produce it. Sounds totally doable. Let’s just check the old bank account here… Oh. Well crap. Hmm. Ok so we won’t be starting [...]
Movies today with their big budgets and fancy effects really don’t come close to movies of the past. The other day as I was eating dinner, I was flipping through channels on the TV and discovered that the 1938 rendition of Robin Hood was airing. I ended up watching almost the whole thing. You see [...]
This is a conversation I have had far too often. These people. Just pay attention. For the love of Pete, just PAY ATTENTION. Maybe if you pay attention, you’ll know why the protagonist is going to that place. If you listen,you’ll comprehend what his motives are for saying that pelicans aren’t to be left alone [...]
Everyone wants my money. I don’t understand it. The rent people want my money. The gas people want my money. The insurance people want my money. The phone people want my money. The tax people want my money. Crap. That reminds me I owe my accountant money… See?!?! EVERYONE wants my money. I don’t understand [...]