If I had my career to do all over again knowing what I know now, instead of the single-minded determination (AKA self-aggrandizing aggression that a few people may have noticed at one point or another as I pushed myself roward), I would do everything in my power to follow the example of the very young lady below.
Thanks for the life lesson, Rex Morgan, M.D. Where were you when I was 8 years old?
Speaking of newspaper headlines, LATimes.Com this morning demonstrates the difference between the Big Orange and the Big Apple with a timely article about smoking weed during the pandemic.
The article is long and descriptive, but the first four words of the headline, which I have cleverly hidden until now, tell us everything we need to know:
Did you read that headline, gang? It’s the question of the day over at NYTimes.Com, and the good news is that they also have an answer:
The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.
Take a good look at that second to last word. “Terminal.”
The secret that former Law & Order: Criminal Intent star Vincent D’Onofrio has been keeping for years was revealed last weekend and is just crying out to be shared.
And that secret is:
This is cool because the “prolific screenwriter” below is the writing partner of Karen McCullah, who was one of the first writing students I had back in Santa Fe in the early ’90s, and all the films cited in the article were co-written by the two of them. Small world, yeah?
When prolific Hollywood screenwriter Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith tells her own story, she does it with a cast of characters straight from real life.
Two women have starring roles: Sue Phillips, her English and creative writing teacher at Chimacum High School, and her mother, Katie Smith of Port Ludlow.