Here’s what going on, socially and professionally, at the Writers Guild of America West this month:
November 2020
Events listed are current at time of publication. Dates and details are subject to change during the month.
Category: Misc.
RIP William Blinn (Bill Blinn Day Part 1)
by Larry Brody
Brian’s Song.
Purple Rain.
With the Credit Comes the Blame (Bill Blinn Day Part 2)
If Hollywood Takes the Credit, It Must Also Share the Blame
by Bill Blinn
(Note from Larry Brody: For those of you who need to know more about my first mentor, Bill Blinn, here’s a little something he wrote in The Lost Angeles Times way back in 2001. This will explain what I mean when I say he was a good guy and the best boss I ever had. Hell, he may in fact have been the best man I ever knew in showbiz.)
Years ago I was fortunate enough to be executive producer and writer on the TV series “Fame.” It was set in the semi-fictionalized School of the Arts in New York City and dealt with the hopes and aspirations of the students as well as their angst and interplay with the school’s faculty.
Learn to be a farmer at Whidbey Island’s Organic Farm School
LB’S NOTE: Another reason yours truly loves living in Port Townsend and environs. Both this article and I are set more in the environs than in PT, but it’s the Port Townsend lifestyle that makes it all happen. Who’d a’guessed?
by Rachel Belle
On Whidbey Island, there is a school that teaches people how to become farmers. The Organic Farm School is a working farm that attracts students from all over the country who want to own their own farms, or make their living working on one.
2020 Plays Like a TV Show. So the Washington Post asked H’wood Writers How It Should End
Once upon a time a newspaper like the Washington Post would’ve asked big name science fiction novelists how they would conclude the story of this, our least favorite year.
But the world is a’changin’ and reading ain’t what it used to be, so the call has instead gone to our brothers-and-sisters-in-arms who work on TV. How did they respond regarding the craziest least believable plot real life has ever thrown our way? Read on.