“You don’t just throw a whole life away just because it’s banged up a little.”
Tom Smith (played by Chris Cooper)
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Seabiscuit Revisited in 2008
Posted in Screenwriters, screenwriting, tagged A Sudden Illness -- How My Life Changed, Ballinetine Books Seabiscuit, Chris Cooper, chronic fatigue syndrome, Gary Ross, Gung Ho, Katie Holmes, Laura Hillenbrand, Pieces of April, Ron Howard, Seabiscuit, Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Sony PD-150, The great depression, The New Yorker, The Screenplay, The Tale of Despereaux, Tobey Maguire, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, William Macy on November 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Screenwriting Las Vegas Style
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, screenwriting, tagged Diablo Cody, Matt Damon, Anthony Zuiker, CSI, Chris Moneymaker, leaving Las Vegas, screenwriters outside L.A., Chart House Restaurant, Peter Eastgate, Rounders, World Series of Poker, Miss Congeniality 2, Oceans 11, Swingers, Nevada Film Office, Lake Tahoe Nevada, screenwritersutopia, Las Vegas, Casino, What Happens in Vegas, Christopher Wehner on November 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“Three years ago I was living in Vegas as the night manager of the Mirage Hotel tram line.”
Anthony Zuiker
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The Howdy Factor (tip #16)
Posted in screenwriting, screenwriting tips, tagged Iowa, Blake Snyder, George Clooney, Save the Cat, Waterloo, Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. Bush, The Howdy Factor, Will Smith, I Am Legend, What does save the cat mean?, White House Basketball court, Aloha, Bird, Gerald Ford, presidents, Magic, MJ, ER, Basketball on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Obama Speaking in Waterloo, Iowa 2007
There is some speculation about what President-elect Obama’s howdy factor will be. They don’t call it that, but that’s what it’s known as in some screenwriting circles. (I’m not sure who I learned this from, but when I remember I’ll give them credit.)
The howdy factor (or howdy trait) is the [...]
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