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Sep.23.2011
"Does cancer love or hate you?"
What kind of question is that? Cancer doesn't love or hate anything: it's like a shark, neither good nor bad, just a shark, doing what sharks do. Which is eat anything it can.
Cancer might have consumed comedy writer Will Reiser, had the disease not been detected...
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Sep.19.2011
Hello inhabitants of this reddest of rooms:
For your delectation, edification or sharing:
September 25, Book Court, Brooklyn, NY 7 pm: Reading with Amii Legendre/Kevin Salem/Brielle Korn. Discussion, music, dance, song! See www.kevinsalem.com/Lola.html for free score for the Lola,California novel....
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Aug.23.2011
Being back in NYC for the past 5 weeks or so has been rejuvenating for my psyche. One of the reasons is the almost immediate access to so much cultural, exciting and varied activities. Last night, I went to a Lincoln Center Film Society/Film Comments Selects screening of the Guillermo del...
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Aug.23.2011
Being back in NYC for the past 5 weeks or so has been rejuvenating for my psyche. One of the reasons is the almost immediate access to so much cultural, exciting and varied activities. Last night, I went to a Lincoln Center Film Society/Film Comments Selects screening of the Guillermo del...
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Aug.10.2011
Finishing up from the previous blog, I offer some more differences between writing screenplays and novels.
Very few people will read your script. After friends and partners, you have your agent, manager, executives, producers. Maybe 50-60 people. If it gets produced, then actors, casting agents...
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Jul.27.2011
People often ask me what it's like to write a novel after 30 years of writing screenplays. But even more often they ask, "Why?" Why leave a job being paid, and paid well, for writing 100 pages in three months? Sometimes you're even paid a ridiculous sum by the week, hanging around the set...
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Jul.17.2011
I've just made a pledge to the Illusionists documentary project (on body image and the beauty industry selling insecurity) on KickStarter because it's something I believe in, and I think that we're stronger when we look at things that negatively impact us. The project has some *fantastic* experts...
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May.28.2011
This Memorial Day, let's remember the contribution of African American men and women in the armed forces.
I saw this film a few months ago at a screening at BFI London South Bank, as part of the African Odysseys series.
The Negro Soldier was commissioned by the U.S. War Department and directed...
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May.21.2011
THE MEOWMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook Book Trailer
You have to watch the trailer for Quirk’s latest mash-up, THE MEOWMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook, it’s a lot of fun and definitely one of the best book trailers I’ve seen. Enjoy!
Synopsis: Gregor Samsa is a humble...
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May.17.2011
Quote of the day, below, which left me quite as speechless as a Cannes film director.
--Earl "And What A Quaint Universe THAT Must Be To Live In" Merkel
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"I don't know why it's accepted that people who make things in our business are then expected to sell them,...
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