Great Movie Monologues 3 – “Network”
Paddy Chayefsky was one of the great writers of motion pictures. His masterpiece, "Network" (1976), lost the Best Picture Oscar to "Rocky". "Rocky" is an excellent movie - really great.…
Great Movie Monologues 2 – “Doctor Zhivago”
Robert Bolt was a very lucky writer - terribly talented, yes - but lucky, lucky, lucky. He wrote only a very few screenplays, and most of those that he wrote…
Top 10 Writers To Detain In A National Emergency
There are enemies out there. Many enemies. So many enemies.But the most dangerous enemy is the enemy within. The Homegrown Enemy.You know, most things that are made in the home…
Great Movie Monologues 1 – “How To Get Ahead In Advertising”
At the disheartening conclusion of Bruce Robinson's SECOND comic masterpiece, "How To Get Ahead In Advertising" (1989), the ... the ... well, the antagonist, let's just say, for those who…
New Job & New Strike
Just as the Writers Guild Of America prepares to strike, I have signed a contract to write a new movie.I'm not a WGA member at present, and the production company…
Cecil Castellucci – Interview
Cecil Castellucci on Art, Transformation,and Not Being Boy Proof interview, Cecil Castellucci & Neal Romanek CECIL CASTELLUCCI has fronted punk bands, has written, directed, and acted in theater and film, has…
Mike Carey on Comics Writing and Beyond
I had the privilege of interviewing Mike Carey, writer of "X-Men" and the "Sandman" spin-off "Lucifer", as well as creator of the Felix Castor series of horror/detective novels by Orbit…
What’s It Like Being A Screenwriter?
Being a SCREENWRITER is like ...being an architect who draws up blueprints for elaborate and complex buildings and then goes door-to-door trying to sell them.training intensely week after week, year…
Vonnegut
So that was Kurt Vonnegut. All done.I'm glad we got him. He was good.My wife wrote a paper on Kurt Vonnegut when she was at Boston College. The faculty resisted…