“And there,” as Strother Martin said many years ago in one of my favorite films, “you have it.”
To put it another way, is there any experience anywhere more depressing than pitching a story – any story – in “Hollywood?”
And yet another way:
Critiques of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA are showing up all over YouTube. Viewers are enjoying the dissection of selected scenes with explanations of what makes them work. One video, “Andy Gets a Makeover,” attracted well over a million views since JoBlo Movie Clips posted it in June.
Impressive for a 15-year-old movie.
At the same time, Throw Back TV is posting scenes and full episodes of JUST SHOOT ME, a sitcom on NBC that poked fun at women’s magazines from 1997 to 2003.
When Nathan Bransford offers writing or publishing advice, we listen…and advise y’all (especially prose writers) to do the same. Here’s another reason why, via Nathan’s guest
by Christine Pride
Greetings writerly people!
I’m fascinated by overthinking. We all do it one way or another and at one time or another.
Mostly I overthink the reasons for scheduling and performing tasks that seem difficult or at best unpleasant. As a writer, I also tend to overthink English language usage, but not nearly as much as Derek Haines has in an article called “A Comma Before Because After a Negative Clause.” that I just read at justpublishingadvice.com.
Ed Asner was an actors’ actor. You name it, he could do it, and probably do it best. Without him, there would still have been a Mary Tyler Moore Show, but we here at TVWriter™ don’t believe for a minute that it would have been the much-acclaimed, uberpopular, multiple Emmy Award winner it was. Here’s Herbie J’s take on a helluva guy.
“I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.” (Ed Asner in a recent interview with author Herbie J Pilato.)
Asner died August 29, 2021, at age 91.