Since it’s Thanksgiving weekend and many people are watching football games, shopping, or working (at football stadiums and malls), I thought I’d expose you to another part of the United States you may be unfamiliar with—as well as give you a little trivia about The Truman Show that I think screenwriters will find interesting. (And […]
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“Meet Seaside, the idyllic town on the Florida Panhandle known for its perfect beaches, pastel cottages, and the kind of laid-back vacations we Southerners adore.” Jennifer Mckenzie Frazier Southern Living It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…even in Seaside, Florida. I took the photos on this post earlier this month when driving through the […]
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“I’m saying you are stuck in Wichita.” Del Griffith (John Candy) Planes, Trains and Automobiles On Thanksgiving Day 2013 I decided to challenge myself to a movie mash-up. Could I take a classic 26 year old Thanksgiving story (Planes, Trains and Automobiles) and somehow connect it with a movie that is currently number one in […]
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“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire Written by Tennessee Williams Yesterday we went global big, today we’re going local small. Well, at least small in the big city. In one of the many posts I did on playwright Tennessee Williams this month I mentioned that his […]
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“[Franlkin] Leonard grew up in Columbus, Ga., as one of a handful of black students in his high school, which he says has always helped him identify with outsiders.” Rachel Dodes The Wall Street Journal It always seems to come back to Juno. Yesterday I came across the The Black List Annual Report for 2013 […]
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“Actually the really cool thing about being more and more gimpy is I really don’t care about my hair loss at all.” Screenwriter Scott Lew (Who has ALS, known as Lou Gehrig Disease) Today on Screenwriting from Iowa…and Other Unlikely Places we’ll learn about an unlikely place not tied to geography. My last post was on Franklin, […]
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”Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” Ben Franklin After traveling around the county over the years for various productions there are a few cities and towns that I find special—Franklin, Tennessee is one of those places. Located just south of Nashville the town was founded in 1799 and named after Ben […]
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There’s been a load of compromisin’ On the road to my horizon But I’m gonna be where the lights are shinning on me Rhinestone Cowboy Written by Larry Weiss and performed by Glen Campbell “All the stuff all your writing teachers and all the books say about ‘it’s the journey that matters’ is totally true. Disregard […]
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“How weak is man? How often do we stray from the straight and narrow?” Rev. Dr. T. Lawrence Shannon (Richard Burton in the movie version) The Night of the Iguana written by Tennessee Williams “Have you seen the cross?” I had no idea what the lady was talking about. On Monday I made a quick […]
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“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks!’ The world thirsts after sympathy, compassion, love.” Don Quixote character in Camino Real Play written by Tennessee Williams (The first part is engraved on Williams’ headstone.) It just so happens that in the midst of this run of posts on the life and work of Tennessee […]
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