Last night I just caught a few minutes of the Primetime Emmy awards and glad to see Jessica Lange and Ken Howard win Emmys for their roles in Grey Gardens. The HBO movie also picked up the Emmy for Made-for-TV Movie. (The movie won a total of six Emmys.) It’s always [...]
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John Hughes (1950-2009)
Posted in Screenwriters on August 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s death on Wednesday was followed on Thursday by writer/director John Hughes dying of a heart attack. Hughes may not have won an Oscar as Shulberg did but he certainly had a longer list of hit movies including;
Home Alone
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Writer Budd Schulberg (1914-2009)
Posted in Screenwriters, tagged Budd Schulberg, Chris Carder, Marlon Brando, Miles Davis, On the Waterfront, Quincy Troupe, The Pursuit of Happyness, Watts Writers Workshop, What Makes Sammy Run? on August 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Budd Schulberg the Oscar winning writer of On the Waterfront died today. And it’s another reminder of what I call the mountain-top experience. For Schulberg On the Waterfront was his top of Everest script. Released in 1954 and starring Marlon Brando the film went on to win a total of eight Oscars and is considered [...]
Sam Shepard, Chekhov…and Al Franken
Posted in Screenwriters, tagged Diablo Cody, Sam Shepard, Prince, St. Paul, Jessica Lange, Minneapolis, Chekhov, Twin Cities, Don Shewey, Al Franken, Minnesota Senate, Jesse Ventura on July 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m up in the Twin Cities again for a shoot and happened to be driving through St. Paul yesterday when I heard the news that Al Franken was officially declared the winner of the Senate race that has been in limbo for eight months. It was a good day to be a talk radio host [...]
From North Dakota to Hollywood
Posted in Screenwriters, tagged Education of a Wandering Man, Jamestown, Louis L'Amour, North Dakota on June 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
If I told you I was going to write about the most famous writer from Jamestown, North Dakota that probably wouldn’t be a good clue for most people. If I told you that at one time he was one of the most popular writers in the world and is mostly known for his westerns you [...]
William Goldman Stands Alone
Posted in Screenwriters, tagged Adventures in the Screen Trade, All the Presidents Men, DeMO, Des Moines, East Village, Iowa, Misery, Oberlin College, Ohio, Paul Newman, Screenplay, Syd Fields, The Princess Bride, William Goldman on June 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Every once in a while I pick up William Goldman’s book Adventures in the Screen Trade and flip through it. I don’t know if that or Syd Fields’ book Screenplay was the first book on screenwriting I ever read, but I remember discovering them both while in film school. Many have built on the foundation [...]
Screenwriter Jack Lewis (1924-2009)
Posted in Screenwriters, tagged Iowa, Jack Lewis, Jack Lewis Dies, John Wayne, Kehau Kula, L.A. Times, Mr. Roberts, North English, Obituary, University of Iowa on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There will be funeral service today in Hawaii for screenwriter & novelist Jack Lewis who died on May 24, 2009. In one of those odd coincidences that sometimes happens, May 24 happens to be when I began writing the post called Screenwriting Quote of the Day# 84 (Lt. Colonel Jack Lewis) that posted on May 25 [...]
The Other Scott Smith
Posted in Screenwriters, tagged A Simple Plan, Ben Stiller, Columbia University, David S. Cohen, IMDB, MFA, Ohio, Scott B. Smith, Scott Smith, Screen Plays, Stephen King, Sylvania, The Ruins, To Live and Die in L.A. on May 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“There are an awful lot of Scott Smiths running around the world.”
Scott B. Smith
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