Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged (Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade, Baton Fink, Comedian, entertainment, Excess Baggage, Frank Darabont, Frank Gehry, Hollywood Animal, IRS, Jeffrey Boam, Jerry Seinfeld, Joe Eszterhas’s Survival Guide, Max Adams, movie business, Orson Welles, Robert Rodrigue, Sarah McLachlan, Scott W. Smith, screenwriting, Sketches of Frank Gehry, taxes, The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood., The Screenwriter, UCLA on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
“Remember this rule: For every quarter you spend in Hollywood, you need to earn a dollar.” [...]
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Posted in Screenwriting Biz, tagged Air Force One, Andrew Marlow, Ben Afflack, Best Original Screenplay, Brand You 50, chicago, Chris Moore, Diablo Cody, entertainment, Field of Dreams, Good in a room, HBO Project Greenlight, Hollywood, Juno, Kevin Costner, Lee Zahavi-Jessup, Lisa Clink, Los Angeles, Matt Damon, midwest, movies, Oscar, Perfect Pitch, Pete Jones, PR, Practical Pictures, Prsentations, public speaking, rapport, sales, Scott W. Smith, screenwriter, screenwriting, Script magazine, Shelia Hanahan Taylor, STEPHANIE PALMER, Stolen Summer, story, Toastmasters International. Robert Louis Stevenson, Tom Peters, WGA on April 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Everybody lives by selling something.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“Tell stories! Great Speechifying = Great Storytelling. Period.” Tom Peters
Stephanie Palmer’s Q&A on her book “Good in a Room” generated the second highest views to this site. (Right behind “The Juno-Iowa Connection” after Diablo Cody won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.) So I thought it would [...]
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Posted in Most Viewed Posts, Screenwriting Biz, screenwriting, tagged Alec Badwin, Blake Snyder, Bruckheimer Films, Carnegie Mellon, David Mamet, Des Moines, Diablo Cody, entertainment, Glengarry Glen Ross, Good in a room, Hollywood, Iowa Save the Cat, Juno, LA, Legally Blonde, MGM, movies, Pittsburgh, Scott W. Smith, screenwriting, screenwriting from iowa, STEPHANIE PALMER on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
“Let’s talk about something important…coffee’s for closers only.” [...]
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