LB: 2022 Oscar Writing Nominations

Woah, it’s the new, hip, and trendy Oscars. Is H’wood really swinging again?

by Larry Brody

UPDATE FROM LB: I just realized that the original list of nominees is incomplete. The Hollywood Reporter listed the screenplays but, in their never-ending mistreatment of writers, not the writers themselves.

So, with help from Deadline.Com, here are the people who went through all the mishigas writers go through working their butts off and getting the screen credit for their sensational work:

Writing (Adapted Screenplay) read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #178 – “Stormy Weather”

Fortunately, this isn’t Cloudcreek Ranch. Whew!

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #177 – “Saying Good-Bye to Uncle Ernie”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned. read article

LB: “Baited Breath?”

by Larry Brody

No, dammit. Just no.

The phrase isn’t “baited breath,” as in fishing, it’s “bated breath,” as in abated, as in holding one’s breath! read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #176 – “Honest Magic?”

Not the Arkansas sky but that of northern New Mexico, where LB spent a whole lotta time encountering a whole lotta magic

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article