Tag: Screenplays
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‘Oppenheimer’ vs. ‘Flower Moon’
March 10 is right around the corner — Oscar Night at the Dolby Theater. Among the 10 films nominated for Best Picture stand two giants, each about three hours long, both boasting top directors and talent. They couldn’t be more different in style and substance. While “Killers of the Flower Moon,” directed by Martin Scorsese,…
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Art Informs Writing
On a recent afternoon, I enjoyed Mindful Monday: Cultivating Empathy and Connectedness, presented online by the Education Department of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The exhibition explored, with mindful meditation briefly at the start, Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection, the art of Light and Space and related works with highly polished…
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Godard, Fellini – and Symmetry in Marketing
The cinematic world lost one of the greatest French auteurs of all time with the death of Jean-Luc Godard by (legal) assisted suicide at 91. His 1960 masterpiece, “Breathless,” tops my list of familiar Godard films. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, with writing…
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Richard Roller — A Renaissance Man and Writer
If things go well for Richard Roller, he and his proposed company of writers could soon hit the national cultural scene. “I love to write!” Richard adds that he also intends to turn his attention to the business aspects of “show business” as he works with a prominent law firm to gain representation for himself…
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The Blacklist reviews VESUVIO
Where Norma & Roger “meet cute” in “Vesuvio” REVIEW of VESUVIO by David Kearse Era Present Day Locations Italy / France / New York Budgets Medium Genre Drama, Crime Drama, Romance, Romantic Drama Logline Two Americans working abroad fall in love on the Amalfi Coast, but their hospitable hotelier’s connections to the mafia and a terrorist…
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Into the Future: New Projects, Yours and Mine
Let me begin first by saying, dear reader, that you do NOT have to have a subscription to participate on this blogsite, and I am encouraging you to share your writing projects and your questions here. See below where to send your comments and all about your creative writing process. As for me, I…
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Steps to Writing That Book — Two, Actually
With two books under my belt as an author, I used two different approaches because they were two different genres. My first was a memoir, “Blessed By the Best,” and the second, a romantic novel, “Drumbeats.” The memoir took more than a year because my disabilites began to occur more profoundly and I set the…