It’s funny when you pick an area to focus on what you can uncover.
First I learned that screenwriter/producer/director Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Night at the Museum, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) was from the Youngstown, Ohio area.
Then I learned that the producer Paula Wagner (Mission Impossible, Vanilla Sky, Valkyrie) was born and raised in [...]
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E.T. was from Youngstown (Kinda)
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged chris Columbus, E.T., Little People of America, Ohio, Pat Bilon, Paula Wagner, Roma Sochan Hadzewycz, Star Wars, Steven Spielberg, The Extra-Terrestria, Youngstown on November 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Journey to Nowhere
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Aaron J. Wiederspahn, Bruce Springsteen, Dale Maharidge, David Strathairn, Denison, either/or films, Finding Someplace Like America, Iowa: Searching for the Soul of America Through the Secrets of a Midwest Town., Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass, Michael Williamson, The Ghost of Tom Joad, The Sensation of Sight on November 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The book that inspired Bruce Springsteen to write the song Youngstown on his The Ghost of Tom Joad album is Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass. The book was written by Dale Maharidge with photography by Michael Williamson. The book was out of print when the album came out in 1995, but [...]
Youngstown’s Hollywood Connection
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Carnegie Mellon University, Chestnut Ridge Productions, chris Columbus, Demi Moore, Des Moines, Goonies, Home Alone, Iowa, Mary Wells, Mike Gaunter, Miss Saigon, Mission Impossible, Ohio, Paula Kaufman, Paula Wagner, Peter Hedges, Pieces of April, Steel Town, The Last Samurai, Val Kilmer and Oliver Stone., Vanilla Sky, You Tube, Youngstown, Youngstown State University on November 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Happy Thanksgiving.
Before I take a circuitous route to point out yet one more connection between Youngstown and Hollywood let me first thank everyone for reading this screenwriting blog as it’s given me much encouragement in my quest to post daily. It’s not easy to write something original daily and finding odd connections really is a [...]
Son of a Son of a Steelworker
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Bob Stoops, Gran Torino, Jim Tressel, mafia, Mansfield, Mr. Football, NFL, Ohio, Ohio St. University, The Shawshank Redemption, Toledo, Urban Myers, USA Today, Yellow Creek, Younsgtown Sheet & Tube, Zippo lighter on November 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Do you have an idea bank? A file or notebook full of articles and ideas that you’d like to explore and develop further? I have several notebooks and one of them I stumbled upon yesterday happens to tie in directly with the last couple posts on Youngstown, Ohio.
It was an article on a guy named [...]
Screenwriting Quote of the Day #116 (Chris Columbus)
Posted in Screenwriting Quotes, tagged Aidan Quinn, Champion, Daryl Hannah, DGA Magazine January 2003, Gremlins, Harry Potter, Home Alone, James Foley, John F. Kennedy High School., John Hughes, Mrs. Doubtfire, Ohio, Only the Lonely, The Goonies, Youngstown on November 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Since I agree that creativity is simply connecting influences (not my phrase) today’s post is a good example of that. A few days ago I wrote about writer/director John Hughes and yesterday I wrote about Youngstown, Ohio. In doing that research I stumbled upon a connection between the two—Home Alone.
That little $15 million film that [...]
From Poland, Ohio to a 155-foot Yacht
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Boca Ciega Bay, Bruce Spingsteen, Jack Warner, Mary Wells, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ohio State Univesity, Springfield-Township High School, Warner Bros., Wells Rich Green (WRG), Youngstown, Youngtown Sheet & Tube on November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Them smokestacks reachin’ like the arms of God
Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay.”
Bruce Springsteen
Youngstown
I don’t know if it’s common for kids growing up in Poland, Ohio to dream about living aboard a yacht someday, but that’s the short life story of Mary Wells.
When I was a kid I first learned about Poland, Ohio [...]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood… (Part 1)
Posted in filmmaking, tagged Billy Joel, Bruce Springteen, Nantucket, Say Goodbye to Hollywood, The Obsolete Man, The Twilight Zone, Writers Guild of America, Youngstown Sheet & Tube on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again
Say goodbye to Hollywood
Billy Joel
Say Goodbye to Hollywood
There is a lot of finger pointing going on in the film & TV business right now. (As I write this L.A. County has an unemployment rate of 12.7%, and the film industry has [...]
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