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Screenwriting
Oscar Watch Writers article in HR 1/6/05
it's kinda depressing. anybody read it? the writers of Collateral, Million $ Baby, Kinsey and how long (and how much of their own money) it took to get produced AFTER an excited studio interest..sigh...
I'm kinda depressed, but my favorite Dorothy Parker poem will cheer me up:
Resume by Dorothy Parker
Razors pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you Drugs cause cramps Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live
There, now I feel a bit better... I think the film noir is getting to me...all those frails with gams and no nylons and my roscoe always yammering kachow.
kachow.
the cat killed a mole and left its lower jaw and snout for us, arranged on the landing by the stairs to look as if the thing had sunk snout-deep into the carpet. But we know she does it because she loves us.
My husband is in Fresno.
Try And Catch Me starts in two hours. Pretty sure only Scorsese's print will be there, not the man himself...
There's something deeply annoying about a crowded, cold and moldy movie theatre in the middle of the night in San Francisco (the mold is not the theatre owner's fault. Gary couldn't get God herself to abate mold out here by the ocean. It's legendary). In Bakersfield, L.A., Colorado, London, Athens, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Aukland, Fiji and Dortmund, people queue up and chat a bit, even to weird looking people like me, no attitude, no pressure, no pushing. But here in SF, there are so many ENTITLEMENT BEASTS who are just sure they are supposed to be in front of you on the freeway, at the supermarket, and in the movie theatre. And everybody working retail is just sure they aren't SUPPOSED to be working retail so why should they learn to be good at their job and it's too cold and we usually a get a break in the weather and get some sun but not this january and nobody in this town wants to know me..I could be writing screenplays in L.A. and get treated like this, plus I'd be warmer
So, I'm in line at the Borders in San Mateo for an open mike reading (they liked the mongolian pony story!), trying to buy a cup of tea, and this broad with badly dyed hair and lots of sun damage to her skin (how you can tell it's not L.A.: no face or boob surgery) says "I'm trying to be somewhere by 7, can I just buy this?" Like it's *my* problem she's running late? What the hell? So I say "sure, soon as I get my tea." and she doesn't know WHAT to do then but wait her turn, which was like 37.5 seconds longer because I bought a damn chamomile tea. NOBODY was at the counter when I got there. oi.
The worst thing is, like living in L.A. and suddenly finding yourself idly thinking "I NEED a BMW," the entitlement thing creeps into my own worldview. I find myself thinking at the backs of short people or those walking slower than 3.5 MPH along Market Street "why don't you just get out of the way?" and then I realize, to my horror, I am a pod person too.
Gotta go, the new kitty is dismantling my closet one hand towel at a time. I hope that's a hand towel and not another mole...
Mysti
I'm kinda depressed, but my favorite Dorothy Parker poem will cheer me up:
Resume by Dorothy Parker
Razors pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you Drugs cause cramps Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live
There, now I feel a bit better... I think the film noir is getting to me...all those frails with gams and no nylons and my roscoe always yammering kachow.
kachow.
the cat killed a mole and left its lower jaw and snout for us, arranged on the landing by the stairs to look as if the thing had sunk snout-deep into the carpet. But we know she does it because she loves us.
My husband is in Fresno.
Try And Catch Me starts in two hours. Pretty sure only Scorsese's print will be there, not the man himself...
There's something deeply annoying about a crowded, cold and moldy movie theatre in the middle of the night in San Francisco (the mold is not the theatre owner's fault. Gary couldn't get God herself to abate mold out here by the ocean. It's legendary). In Bakersfield, L.A., Colorado, London, Athens, Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Aukland, Fiji and Dortmund, people queue up and chat a bit, even to weird looking people like me, no attitude, no pressure, no pushing. But here in SF, there are so many ENTITLEMENT BEASTS who are just sure they are supposed to be in front of you on the freeway, at the supermarket, and in the movie theatre. And everybody working retail is just sure they aren't SUPPOSED to be working retail so why should they learn to be good at their job and it's too cold and we usually a get a break in the weather and get some sun but not this january and nobody in this town wants to know me..I could be writing screenplays in L.A. and get treated like this, plus I'd be warmer
So, I'm in line at the Borders in San Mateo for an open mike reading (they liked the mongolian pony story!), trying to buy a cup of tea, and this broad with badly dyed hair and lots of sun damage to her skin (how you can tell it's not L.A.: no face or boob surgery) says "I'm trying to be somewhere by 7, can I just buy this?" Like it's *my* problem she's running late? What the hell? So I say "sure, soon as I get my tea." and she doesn't know WHAT to do then but wait her turn, which was like 37.5 seconds longer because I bought a damn chamomile tea. NOBODY was at the counter when I got there. oi.
The worst thing is, like living in L.A. and suddenly finding yourself idly thinking "I NEED a BMW," the entitlement thing creeps into my own worldview. I find myself thinking at the backs of short people or those walking slower than 3.5 MPH along Market Street "why don't you just get out of the way?" and then I realize, to my horror, I am a pod person too.
Gotta go, the new kitty is dismantling my closet one hand towel at a time. I hope that's a hand towel and not another mole...
Mysti
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Ah, no worries, we had a mini-boink at the noir festival--Marty's print of "Try and Get Me" perfectly documents the transition from noir to paranoic science fiction, with some bows to emerging teen threat cinema as well. feeling much better now thanks to good company and wicked, wicked film, yanked from circulation because it was "unamerican" Oddly cheerful, Mysti
- Ah, no worries, we had a mini-boink at the noir festival--Marty's print of "Try and Get Me" perfectly documents the transition from noir to paranoic science fiction, with some bows to emerging teen threat cinema as well.
- feeling much better now thanks to good company and wicked, wicked film, yanked from circulation because it was "unamerican" Oddly cheerful, Mysti
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Ah, no worries, we had a mini-boink at the noir festival--Marty's print of "Try and Get Me" perfectly documents the transition from noir to paranoic science fiction, with some bows to emerging teen threat cinema as well.
feeling much better now thanks to good company and wicked, wicked film, yanked from circulation because it was "unamerican"
Oddly cheerful,
Mysti
feeling much better now thanks to good company and wicked, wicked film, yanked from circulation because it was "unamerican"
Oddly cheerful,
Mysti
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@reader2.panix.com:
[nq:1]feeling much better now thanks to good company and wicked, wicked film, yanked from circulation because it was "unamerican"[/nq]
Ya gonna expand on that or leave us all here scratching our heads?
jaybee
[nq:1]feeling much better now thanks to good company and wicked, wicked film, yanked from circulation because it was "unamerican"[/nq]
Ya gonna expand on that or leave us all here scratching our heads?
jaybee
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[nq:1] @reader2.panix.com:[/nq]
[nq:2]feeling much better now thanks to good company and wicked, wicked film, yanked from circulation because it was "unamerican"[/nq]
[nq:1]Ya gonna expand on that or leave us all here scratching our heads? jaybee[/nq]
Yes, Mysti. Please do!
Doug
Just a virtual guy... in a virtual world
[nq:2]feeling much better now thanks to good company and wicked, wicked film, yanked from circulation because it was "unamerican"[/nq]
[nq:1]Ya gonna expand on that or leave us all here scratching our heads? jaybee[/nq]
Yes, Mysti. Please do!
Doug
Just a virtual guy... in a virtual world
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[nq:2] @reader2.panix.com: Ya gonna expand on that or leave us all here scratching our heads? jaybee[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, Mysti. Please do! Doug Just a virtual guy... in a virtual world Sorry guys, 3am is not my best hour for thinking.[/nq]
It was based on a real event in '34 in San Jose, and spends a lot of story time making clear that newspapers whip up the emotions of the public, and that ci
[nq:1]Yes, Mysti. Please do! Doug Just a virtual guy... in a virtual world Sorry guys, 3am is not my best hour for thinking.[/nq]
It was based on a real event in '34 in San Jose, and spends a lot of story time making clear that newspapers whip up the emotions of the public, and that ci
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[nq:1] The director emigrated to England after this picture to escape blacklisting, and made a few pictures over there.[/nq]
Among them were half a dozen with Stanley Baker, including two of my all time faves from the 60's, "Zulu" and "The Sands of the Kalahari." (Baker co-produced those two.)
Ken
Among them were half a dozen with Stanley Baker, including two of my all time faves from the 60's, "Zulu" and "The Sands of the Kalahari." (Baker co-produced those two.)
Ken
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[nq:2] The director emigrated to England after this picture to escape blacklisting, and made a few pictures over there.[/nq]
[nq:1]Among them were half a dozen with Stanley Baker, including two of my all time faves from the 60's, "Zulu" ... co-produced those two.) Ken Thanks for reminding us about Zulu, Ken! Eddie mentioned it at the festival and I forgot![/nq]
Mysti
[nq:1]Among them were half a dozen with Stanley Baker, including two of my all time faves from the 60's, "Zulu" ... co-produced those two.) Ken Thanks for reminding us about Zulu, Ken! Eddie mentioned it at the festival and I forgot![/nq]
Mysti
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[nq:2] The director emigrated to England after this picture to escape blacklisting, and made a few pictures over there.[/nq]
[nq:1]Among them were half a dozen with Stanley Baker, including two of my all time faves from the 60's, "Zulu" ... after-school skiffy movies (the 4:30 Movie on Channel 7 in NY) when I was growing up. MM, giant mutant crab...[/nq]
-ksharp
[nq:1]Among them were half a dozen with Stanley Baker, including two of my all time faves from the 60's, "Zulu" ... after-school skiffy movies (the 4:30 Movie on Channel 7 in NY) when I was growing up. MM, giant mutant crab...[/nq]
-ksharp
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[nq:1] Sorry guys, 3am is not my best hour for thinking. It was based on a real event in '34 ... disregard for public welfare. In 1950 the very idea that gov't and journalists weren't pure was, well, unamerican, I guess.[/nq]
Here's a link to an on-line article that describes the actual crime and its aftermath:
Here's a link to an on-line article that describes the actual crime and its aftermath:
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[nq:1]He also directed "Mysterious Island" which was one of my favorite after-school skiffy movies (the 4:30 Movie on Channel 7 in NY) when I was growing up. MM, giant mutant crab...[/nq]
I was going to mention MI as well, but I guess I think of it more as a Ray Harryhausen film than a Cy Endfield one.
For those of you who don't know his Sands of the Kalahari, keep an eye out for it
I was going to mention MI as well, but I guess I think of it more as a Ray Harryhausen film than a Cy Endfield one.
For those of you who don't know his Sands of the Kalahari, keep an eye out for it
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