After 72 years on the air the CBS soap opera Guiding Light faded off screen for the last time on Friday. The show which began in 1937 as a radio program found its way to TV in 1952. Over 15,000 shows aired. That’s a lot of scripts.
The show won 69 daytime Emmy’s and provided work [...]
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Archive for September, 2009
Sep
19
2009
 
Trouble in Film Incentive ParadisePosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaOkay, most people don’t think of Iowa as paradise. Not in the traditional sense. But as people wander into the state they’re often surprised to find a kind of paradise that could be described as a quality of life paradise. Blue skies, friendly people, safe neighborhoods, affordable housing, little traffic and the list goes on. [...] Puff, the magic dragon lived by the seaAnd frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee
Sep
16
2009
Writer Jim Carroll (1950-2009)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaLast Friday the writer of the novel The Basketball Diaries, Jim Carroll, died in New York. His novel was made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a youth who is a basketball player with a heroin addiction . It’s a story of crime that Carroll lived first hand. But along the way he also [...] The life and death of Patrick Swayze will get plenty of press the next couple days. Movie stars get that kind of publicity. But let me get in a plug for a man who was said to be “one of the greatest people of the 20th century” and another called him the “greatest human being [...]
Sep
14
2009
Packers, Bears & Wolverines vs. HollywoodPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa There were 106,033 people in Columbus, Ohio watching USC come from behind about a minute before the game ended to beat Ohio State 18-15. There were 110,278 people in [...] On Thursday on the way home from a shoot I stopped the Barnes & Noble in Iowa City. In the film/theater section I saw the book version of Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined. It’s a play I saw last Saturday in New York and it seems like I’ve been blogging about it ever since. [...] Until last Saturday afternoon I was unfamiliar with the name Kate Whoriskey. By the time the afternoon turned to evening I was sure that everyone would eventually become familiar with the name Kate Whoriskey. Whoriskey directed Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined which just finished its run in New York. She’s been called “one of the [...] Since I’ve been writing about New York for the past ten days it seems fitting that these posts land on September 11. May we never forget the lives that were lost that day. May we never forget the scars left in the wake of the attacks. And may we never forget that we are always [...]
Sep
11
2009
Writing Quote of the Day #4 (Lynn Nottage)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaWhat do the plays Ruined and Driving Miss Daisy have in common? They both won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama and both happened to have been written by graduates of Brown University (Lynn Nottage ‘86 and Alfred Uhry ‘59). I’ve been thinking a lot about Ruined after seeing it last Saturday and for some reason [...] |
