The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.
Leo Rosten
Tag: screenwriting
LB: Old TV Shows are Being Rediscovered by New Viewers – Yikes!
Well, well, what do you know? According to the New York Post, “older shows are seeing renewed popularity among a new generation of viewers, who learn about the shows via social media, because they feature well-known actors or directors, or are discovered simply by scrolling through Hulu or Netflix.”
According to the Post:
NBC is Turning to the Web to Keep REVOLUTION Alive
Hmm. So it says here that NBC is right now, as we speak, showing animated webisodes of REVOLUTION to keep the show uppermost in our minds. To give us our “fix” so we’ll stay enchanted when REVOLUTION returns from hiatus.
What a great idea – really. What could possibly go wrong?
Raymond Chandler on ‘Writers in Hollywood’
Scott Smith’s Screenwriting From Iowa blog scores again:
by Scott W. Smith
“HOLLYWOOD is easy to hate, easy to sneer at, easy to lampoon.”
Raymond Chandler’s essay Writers in Hollywood published in the Atlantic in 1945
What Popular TV/Film Trope Makes You Want to Never Watch Anything Again?
For writer Alex Epstein it boils down to this: “If I never see a movie or script or novel about growing up as a writer again, it will be too soon.”
We’ll let him explain. (Cuz he does it so well.)
THIS IS NOT A REVIEW OF PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWERby Alex Epstein (Complications Ensue Blog)
We watched THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, an odd Oscar contender about coming of age in the 90’s. It’s well made, with lots of lovely songs. Emma Watson is fetching and lovely as the wide-eyed toxic pixie dream girl. There are some nice walk-ons from Dylan McDermott and Paul Rudd. There’s some great tunes in there — I suspect a big chunk of the budget went to getting “Heroes” and “Come on Eileen.” (Which I remember hearing when I was growing up in the 80’s, but people are allowed to listen to old songs, after all.)