Month: September 2017

Herbie J Pilato Remembers Richard Anderson – The Bionic Boss

by Herbie J Pilato

It was all style and all substance for actor Richard Anderson, who passed away from natural causes at age 91 on August 31, 2017.

When Anderson delivered a line, you believed him; it was like you were in the room with him, and not watching from any distance one of his countless performances on television, the big screen, or the stage.

Best known to TV viewers as Oscar Goldman, the government supervising official for the O.S.I. (“Office of Strategic Intelligence” – a.k.a. “Information”) on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, Anderson’s staple role on those two sci-fi superhero series of the ‘70s became signature for several reasons. read article

Peggy Bechko on What a Synopsis IS & What It ISN’T

  by Peggy Bechko

Found at WritersRelief.Com

I hear it all the time:
“Do I have to write a synopsis?”
“Why do I have to write a synopsis?”
“What the heck is a synopsis?”

Answers:
“Yes you do.”
“Because.”
“You better do a little research – seriously.”

Okay, plainly a synopsis can be a very different animal for every writer. But who it is for doesn’t change. It’s for the reader whether a script reader or a novel reader. It has to be short, succinct and really hook ‘em. read article

Larry Brody’s Poetry: ‘Another Day, On The Pueblo’

 by Larry Brody

NOTE FROM LB

The Navajo Dog revisits! I knew she loved us far too much to stay away!

Another Day, On The Pueblo

For a time, I lived on the Santa Clara Pueblo, read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – September 5, 2017

Good morning! Time for TVWriter™’s  Monday look at our 5 most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:

Kelly Jo Brick: Mastering the TV Writing Meeting read article

Happy Labor Day!

YOURS IN SOLIDARITY

We’ll be back with our usual Monday features tomorrow