Invisible Mikey: Yet Another Reason
…to remain invisible.
Category: By Guests
The 100% True Story of How I Taught Myself How to Animate So I Could Launch A Web Series
By Leesa Dean
About five years ago I was at a crossroads.
I’m a writer, lucky enough to have sold a few shows. One to a cable network, a few others to production companies. Unluckily, I’ve never had a show actually go into production. It paid the bills, more or less, but was incredibly creatively frustrating.
Raymond Chandler on ‘Writers in Hollywood’
Scott Smith’s Screenwriting From Iowa blog scores again:
by Scott W. Smith
“HOLLYWOOD is easy to hate, easy to sneer at, easy to lampoon.”
Raymond Chandler’s essay Writers in Hollywood published in the Atlantic in 1945
What Popular TV/Film Trope Makes You Want to Never Watch Anything Again?
For writer Alex Epstein it boils down to this: “If I never see a movie or script or novel about growing up as a writer again, it will be too soon.”
We’ll let him explain. (Cuz he does it so well.)
THIS IS NOT A REVIEW OF PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWERby Alex Epstein (Complications Ensue Blog)
We watched THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, an odd Oscar contender about coming of age in the 90’s. It’s well made, with lots of lovely songs. Emma Watson is fetching and lovely as the wide-eyed toxic pixie dream girl. There are some nice walk-ons from Dylan McDermott and Paul Rudd. There’s some great tunes in there — I suspect a big chunk of the budget went to getting “Heroes” and “Come on Eileen.” (Which I remember hearing when I was growing up in the 80’s, but people are allowed to listen to old songs, after all.)
Peggy Bechko: What’s in a Name?
by Peggy Bechko
A lot goes into naming character, I know, I’ve named a lot. Worse than naming a kid though to tell the truth I’m not so sure a lot of parents put a whole lot of thought into what they name their kids. I mean I remember a friend from high school who was named Stewart Stuart. I mean come on!
But I digress.