Danny Rubin, whose credits include GROUNDHOG DAY and HEAR NO EVIL, has a book out called How to Write Groundhog Day. Inasmuch as I love the film, I’m hoping the book is great. Here’s a helpful sample:
How to Write Groundhog Day: 10 Rules for Screenwriters – by Danny Rubin
Last summer another list of writing rules popped up, this one in a Sunday edition of The New York Times.
The comfort of rules can be very important to a writer’s motivation because telling them the truth (there are no rules and nobody knows anything) is for most people not useful and a little intimidating.
munchman sees the 2nd Episode of CHICAGO FIRE
Remember the early days of HOUSE, when Jesse Spencer was cute? And almost cool? Well, that’s all over now, baby.
And so is CHICAGO FIRE, at least in the munchman abode. Even My Girlfriend has had enough.
Or to put it another way:
munchman’s Laugh of the Day
Serious bizness, yah. But I can’t help it. This strikes me as, um, well, erm funny:
Showtime’s ‘Homeland’ Receives Threat of Legal Action From Government of Lebanon – by Team TVWriter Press Service (via UK Telegraph)
The award-winning Showtime drama “Homeland” has received a legal threat from Lebanon, with the country’s minister of tourism expressing outrage at Beirut’s portrayal by the show as a city filled with terrorists, reports the U.K.’s Telegraph.
The story was reported before Beirut was rocked Friday by a deadly car bombing.
munchman: NBC Pulls ANIMAL PRACTICE Off the Air
…Just when I was almost psyched up enough to make myself watch an episode.
Yep, NBC has cancelled the show without calling it a cancellation because network executives are, you know, cowardly bags of brainless shit rotting vegetation. Taking its time slot will be WHITNEY, as of November 14th when it premieres for its second season.
Till that date, NBC will play off a few more ANIMAL PRACTICE eps so anybody who hasn’t already flooded on Crystal the monkey can still do so.
munchman sees CHICAGO FIRE
Quick Reaction: E.R. with firemen. But my girlfriend, who hates action shows, liked it and even wants to watch it again. (I’m thinking maybe it’s the boots?
Prognosis: For Fire Dept. groupies only. (You know who you are.)