Screenwriting From Iowa

It always comes back to Diablo Cody doesn’t it. It took being in Kansas City several days field producing some stories before I realized that Diablo Cody in fact has a connection to Kansas City. I don’t have cable and have never seen the show The United States of Tara, so until now I didn’t [...]

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Actors, like screenwriters, come from everywhere. While in Kansas City for a few days I’ve learned about a few local actors from there who went on to make a name for themselves. Before actor Chris Cooper had roles in Seabiscuit, The Bourne Identity, American Beauty, and his Academy Award-winning performance in Adaptation, he born Kansas [...]

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When you think of writer Ernest Hemingway there are many places you connect with him—Key West,  Chicago-Oak Park, Paris, Idaho—but one place that might never come to mind is Kansas City. But according to a 1999 article in The Kansas City Star, “Kansas City fascinated the young Ernest Hemingway.” Ernest had an uncle named Alfred [...]

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