I’ve driven over 3,000 miles in the last month which is more than normal for me. And on those 12, 15 and even 20 hours days working on video projects it’s hard to sneak a post in. So I’ve decided to add a new category called Post Cards from the Road where I can give [...]
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Author ArchiveDowntown Kansas City taken with my iPhone 8.13.11 from the public viewing area above WW1 National Museum. (And using Chase Jarvis’ The Best Camera App.) Scott W. Smith “All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.”Grant Wood (Iowa painter, American Gothic) Since I’m shooting in Duluth, Minnesota today I’ll make this my last Kansas City-related post for a while. Gordon MacKenzie worked for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City for 30 years—to the day. He began as [...]
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2011
 
The Hallmark Channel’s KC RootsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaEveryone who is old enough to buy a Mother’s Day card had heard of Hallmark Cards—or has at least looked at one. But how many people know that Hallmark Cards has its headquarters in Kansas City? And what does all of this have to do with screenwriting? Rewind fifteen years when UCLA’s William Froug released [...] After spending six days in Kansas City I realized that two of the biggest influences in recent American history, both had major Kansas City connections and both had the name Walter; Walt Disney & Walter Cronkite. On Saturday I drove by the original Walt Disney studio on 31 Street. Disney was born in 1901 in [...]
Aug
15
2011
Diablo Cody’s Kansas ConnectionPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaIt 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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2011
Diablo Cody’s Kansas ConnectionPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaIt 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 [...]
Aug
14
2011
Chris Cooper’s Kansas City ConnectionPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaActors, 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 [...] 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 [...] This week I’ve been on a shoot in Kansas City Missouri and that’s made me think of filmmaker Robert Altman who was born there in 1925. I found this interview shortly before he died in 2006 in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: Star Tribune: You’ve been described as a maverick for most of your career. Now you’ve been [...] |
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