by Larry Brody
Breathes there a creator so rare that they disagree with this masterful reaction by Wiley Miller to recent events in the copyright world?
It takes a most admirable amount of chutzpah to thumb your nose at Walt Disney.
Category: Opinion
LB: “Retirement Blues?”
by Larry Brody
I’m thinking that the heading on this post could also apply to this cartoon by Wiley:
Don’t get me wrong. It doesn’t apply to me, oh no, no.
LB: Peter Bogdanovich RIP
by Larry Brody
LB’S NOTE: I’ve been thinking about Peter Bogdanovich’s death and wishing there was something I could add to the discussion of one of the most influential film directors of the 1970s.
I met him once during the ’80s, via my then business managers, and he was quite pleasant in a Hollywood sort of way. My management, however, wasn’t exactly fond of him. Something to do with the fact that he only got in touch with them when he needed money for a project.
This shouldn’t have been a negative because my managers’ main business was in fact lending people money in exchange for a percentage of the take. But their policy was to never – absolutely never – invest in the film biz, which, they said, they had told Bogdanovich myriad times so why did he keep insisting on wine-and-dining and pitching them time after time?
LB: Yo, Novelists! Think Publishing via Kindle has Freed You?
by Larry Brody
Are you one of the many authors proudly self-publishing on Kindle? Merrily celebrating having cast aside the shackles of the big publishing houses and their creative, or maybe not-so-creative, demands?
It may behoove you to think again. Here’s how Parul Sehgal put it in The New Yorker for newyorker.com on October 25th:
LB: Are You Ready for More Cartoons About – shudder – Writers?
by Larry Brody
It’s Friday, and today’s treat is on me.
These cartoons definitely speak for themselves, but I’m giving them titles anyway. (I think it was Gene Roddenberry who taught me that.)
screenplay structure for beginners
The Fun & the fury of venn diagrams
