Q. Has ‘Jeopardy’ damaged its integrity by considering its current executive producer for the hosting gig?
A. No, instead the show has blown itself into total annihilation by giving this butthead the job.
~munchman
Yer friendly neighborhood munchamaniac has been munching on some bad news that arrived at the munch launch pad yesterday, by which yrs truly means the 24th stupid, dumb, & sosososo aggravating rejection of my someday Oscar or Emmy or Bafta (but never Golden Globes ‘cuz screw them) winning script that shall be nameless (titleless?) for the moment, & has come to the conclusion that said rejection is the product of a conspiracy by the secret rulers of the TV & film writing universe, AKA the sons & daughters of Satan known as gatekeepers!
What else could a note like this mean:
Regular visitors to TVWriter™ know I spend a lot of time (some may say too much) writing about gearing your work toward its intended audience. The reason for that is this variation of an old philosophical conundrum:
“If a teleplay, screenplay, novel, or short story is written but never read or viewed, does it really exist?”
In my younger, more ambitious days, the answer to this question was a quick and usually angry shout: “HELL %^#@ing NO!”
This time around, our favorite cartoonist-philosopher, Grant Snider, talks about an affliction common not only among writers but also other creatives, and, for that matter, just about everyone. And guess what – he’s got a cure.
More of Grant Snider’s sensitive perception of humanity and creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE
Tips for rewriting scripts come in all flavors. Yer friendly neighborhood munchenstein likes chocolate best, but here’s some pretty darn good-tasting vanilla.
via Film Independent (gotta love anything with the word “independent” in its name, amiright? Huh?