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Author Archive
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2011
Steve Martin’s Bluegrass RootsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThe past weekend while driving through West Virginia I may have heard more bluegrass music on the radio than I have in the last decade. The perfect ending to the weekend was a rebroadcast of The 2011 International Bluegrass Music Awards Show (IBMA) that was held in the Ryman Auditorium on September 29. That’s when [...] The first time I ever heard the word euphoria it was when I was a teenager and when I learned that was the name of singer Jimmy Buffett’s boat. I had to look up the word in the dictionary. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary euphoria is: 1. a feeling of well-being or elation I took [...]
Oct
16
2011
The Last Dinner on the TitanicPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaWhile shooting a production in Morgantown, West Virginia I ate dinner at the Cafe Bacchus. The restaurant is in a two-story Victorian house that used to be owed by Lucian Smith who just happened to be one of the passengers who died aboard the Titanic. Each year in honor of Lucian, the Cafe Bacchus has [...]
Oct
16
2011
Quote from the Road #2 (Morgantown)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThis was overheard at a restaurant in Morgantown, West Virginia in regard to all the well dressed women during sorority rush week walking around at the University of West Virginia: “You get to see Morgantown’s finest during sorority week.” Related Post: From West Virginia to Hollywood (on screenwriter Lawrence Kasden—Raiders of the Lost Ark— who grew up [...]
Oct
16
2011
Quote from the Road #1 (Charleston)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaI asked a West Virginian what Moonshine tasted like and he said;“It’s like drinking fire.” That made me think I needed to start a new category for what I consider original lines or at least ones I consider fresh.
Oct
13
2011
Jennifer Garner’s Old W.V. JobPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaWhen you think of actress Jennifer Garner you probably don’t think of Charleston, West Virginia— but that’s where she spent much of her childhood before graduating from George Washington High School. I was in Charleston shooting a project today and learned that as a teenager Garner worked at a men’s clothing store called Kelley’s Men’s [...]
Oct
12
2011
Directing Non-Professional ActorsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaIt’s not usual for directors to use non-professional actors from time to time, but Steve Soderbergh took it to extreme for his 2006 film Bubble—the entire cast was non-professionals actors. I was reminded of that film today when I drove through Parkerburgh, West Virginia & Belpre, Ohio. Soderbergh, who directed and shot the film, said [...]
Oct
11
2011
Before “Friday Night Lights”Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaBefore Friday Night Lights—the TV show, movie and book…and even before lights were used in a high school football games, there was a high school rivalry in Ohio between Massillon Washington and Canton McKinley. Fresh off of personally completing the final episode of the TV program Friday Night Lights this past weekend, on Sunday and Monday I [...]
Oct
10
2011
Finishing “Friday Night Lights” (w/ Fitzgerald)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaIn light of Connie Britton stirring up more rumors of a movie version of TV show Friday Night Lights, yesterday I completed the final episode of the TV series. I blazed through the full five seasons in just a couple of month. In classic screenwriting terms the TV series had a strong start, a great mid-point twist (at the end [...] |
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