Did you know there’s actually a city named Metropolis in the United States? It sits on the Ohio River in the southern part of Illinois. And if you expect a real life town of Metropolis to embrace Superman and build a giant replica of the fictional character, you will not be disappointed. I took the […]
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Archive for October, 2013And I’ve never been West of New Orleans or East of Pensacola My only contact with the outside world Was an RCA Victrola Jimmy Buffett/Life is Just a Tire Swing “If I had grown up in Montgomery or Birmingham with less access to the beaches, bays, and rivers, I would be a completely different person.” […]
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Postcard #51 (Cotton Fields)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaWhen I was a little bitty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cotton fields back home Cotton Fields by Lead Belly You may have never seen cotton fields in the south, or heard of Huddie Ledbetter—who is better known as Lead Belly. But the two came together in 1940 when […] “For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.” The Optimist’s Daughter written by Eudora Welty (And included on Welty’s headstone in Jackson, Mississippi) Pulitzer Prize winning writer Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She earned an English degree from the University of […] Yazoo City— can you even say the name without smiling? Yazoo City not really a town you go out of your way to visit—unless you know the work of writer Willie Morris (1934-1999) . It’s located about an hour’s drive north west from the Mississippi state capital of Jackson. It’s not really convenient to I-20 and […] “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad—Read!” William Faulkner Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Faulkner moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was three and after a long life in literature, and a short career as a screenwriter in Hollywood, Faulkner died at age 64 and is buried in Oxford. I […] “Before Elvis, there was nothing.” John Lennon If you want proof that big things can come from somewhat small and unlikely places I have just two words to share; Tupelo. Elvis. According to the website for the birthplace of Elvis Presley here’s the history behind the building above I photographed Saturday afternoon in Tupelo: Elvis Aaron […] Last night I stayed in Huntsville, Alabama and took this shot at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center before I pulled out of town early this afternoon. Though I never saw the 1986 film SpaceCamp I remembered that the story was inspired by a space camp held for kids in Huntsville. The movie starred the up […] These two lanes will take us anywhere We got one last chance to make it real Thunder Road/Bruce Springsteen Today is the first post I’ve ever writing from a film location. Yesterday I had a chance to roll down Thunder Road and tap into my inner Robert Mitchum. I took the above picture as I […] “You will be a big deal for about ten seconds. Since I ‘broke through’ (ugh) six years ago, countless younger, funnier, smarter writers have flocked to Hollywood and TOOK MY JERB. That’s the nature of this business. Just ask any of the actresses who were on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue in the nineties. Believe […] |
