Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, tagged Everybody's Fine, Guiseppe Tomatore, Hannah Goodwyn, Kirk Jones, Life, Robert DeNiro, Stanno tuti Benne, Waking Ned Devine on December 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“I think essentially, we’re pretty lazy when it comes to communication with each other and we need to be motivated.”
writer/director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine)
Up until six years ago I had lived my entire life in Florida and California so I looked at moving to Iowa in 2003 as a great adventure. Similar to moving [...]
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, tagged Body Heat, Diablo Cody, Grand Canyon, Kevin Costner, Lawrence Kasden, Morgantown, O.J. Simpson, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes, Starsky & Hutch, The Accidental Tourist, The Big Chill., The Bodyguard, The First Time I Got Paid for It, University of Michigan, West Virginia, Whitney Houston, Writers' Tales from the Hollywood Trenches on September 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Since Diablo Cody is my poster child (female) for a screenwriter coming from outside L.A. (and the original inspiration for this blog) then I think I’ll name Lawrence Kasden as the poster child (male) screenwriter from outside L.A. Kasden was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia. Quick, name another screenwriter from West Virginia.
(While Morgantown is the [...]
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, tagged birth place of Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, John Steinbeck, Main Street, Morris Dickstein, On the Waterfront, Saul Centre, Sinclair Lewis, Travels with Charley on July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“During the 1920s, at the height of his fame and literary power, Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951) was more than a bestselling author. He was a troublemaker, a disturber of the peace whose novels were hotly discussed as social criticism more than literature.”
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Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, tagged Bill Romanowski, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Harry Chapin, Jeannie Claudia Oppewall, Legendary Champions, Michigan, Michigan's FIlm Incentives, Paul Schrader, Seabiscuit, Taxi, Taxi Driver, Tender Mercies, The Bridges of Madison County, You talkin to me?, You talking to me? on April 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me? You talkin’ to me?”
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro)
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Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, screenwriting, tagged Air Force, Apocalypse Now, Army, Hitler, Iowa, Irag, Jarhead, Jimmy Buffett, Liz Alani, Marines, MASH, Military Screenwriting, Navy, Pearl Harbor Day, Saving Private Ryan, screenwriting from Iraq, Script magazine, Sending the Anthoy Swofford, Sending the old man home, The Fighting Sullivans, The Five Sullivan Brothers, The Green Beret, The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum, Tom Cruise, University of Iowa, Valkyrie, Vietnam, war is hell, Waterloo, William Broyles Jr., William T. Sherman on December 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.“
Maj. Gen. William T. [...]
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, screenwriting, tagged Anthony Zuiker, Casino, Chart House Restaurant, Chris Moneymaker, Christopher Wehner, CSI, Diablo Cody, Lake Tahoe Nevada, Las Vegas, leaving Las Vegas, Matt Damon, Miss Congeniality 2, Nevada Film Office, Oceans 11, Peter Eastgate, Rounders, screenwriters outside L.A., screenwritersutopia, Swingers, What Happens in Vegas, World Series of Poker 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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Screenwriting from Iowa