LB: ‘Big Fish,’ Steven Seagal, and Emotional Truth

by Larry Brody

Everything I say is emotionally true.

The other night at a meeting in the TVWriter™ Online (that means Zoom) Writers Room, I was reminded that yes, the statement above is one yours truly often has made, but its first public appearance probably was in a press release from a representative of a guy named Steven Seagal. read article

Last Week’s Most Important Cord Cutting Developments

Big news last week was that Disney is considering divesting itself of ESPN. If that makes you ask yourself, “So…?” don’t worry. It’s cool. A lot of us are kind of shrugging about this particular move.

Cord Cutters News gives us the latest on the cord cutting front, including Roku Warns It Could Drop YouTube, ESPN Spin Off Rumors, and More!

Cord Cutters Video Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tUZA7GiIZPaUu4FQXnFYA

Cord Cutters Web Site:
http://cordcuttersnews.com read article

LB: About that Memoir by Ron Howard and Clint Howard

The Howard Boys

by Larry Brody

So it turns out that $14.99 is not such an unusual price for a Kindle book.

I know because Gwen the Beautiful – among many others – has told me so, with Gwen adding that fifteen bucks is par for the course in terms of the science books she devours via that very source. read article

LB: Thoughts on Creating a Protagonist Who’s a Total Asshole

Pic at bang2write.com

by Larry Brody

Back in 2001, after the demise of FoxKids TV, Haim Saban’s U.S. production company, and, therefore, Spider-Man unlimited and my last show for both corporations, Diabolik, I used the time I now had – and the disgust I felt about the whole way my second career (AKA the animation writing thing) had gone – to write a novel.

It was based on a true story, and I worked very closely with the subject of that story, a cardio-thoracic surgeon who had unfairly lost his medical license because, in his own words, “I’m a major league asshole.”

And, truth to tell, he was. read article