This morning, blogger/radio personality Paul Harris demonstrates the cultural significance of film when it’s in the hands of a truly brilliant writer like the legendary Paddy Chayefsky.
It’s not war that’s insane, you see. It’s the morality of it. It’s not greed or ambition that makes wars. It’s goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons…Next war, it seems we’ll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.…
~from The Americanization of Emily (1964)
The always amazing, insightful, and funny Ken Levine has a terrific column today. On its face, it’s a review of a detestable new series called White Lotus.
I agree with every negative thing Ken says here, but the truly enlightening element is the Comments section, in which people who love the show explain why.
The comments take us on a mind-gobbling trip through today’s cultural landscape, illuminating the darkness of inherent in the latest generation gap.
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.
…No. New writers don’t “have to be” better.
But they do have to work harder.
Heard last night in the TVWriter™ Online Writers Room:
An agent’s job is to sell your work, not edit or even critique it.