Screenwriting From Iowa

Fresh off my trip to Yankee Stadium I thought I’d see if there was a movie quote by the former Yankee player Yoga Berra who is known for his memorable quotes. Sure enough I found one from him:
“Steve McQueen looks good in this movie. He must have made it before he died.”
Yoga Berra
I wonder if [...]

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Yesterday I took two plane flights, one bus ride, and one subway to get to my first game ever at Yankee Stadium. The journey from my house took about about nine hours. But it was really several decades in the making. It’s a place I’ve always wanted to visit ever since I was a little [...]

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A few days ago I learned that I received two more Emmy nominations by the Upper Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. That makes four in two years. And though there are many great screenwriting blogs out there, I was thrilled last year that Screenwriting from Iowa was the first screenwriting blog [...]

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Since I wasn’t able to go to the Aplington-Parkersburg game last night I thought I’d drive out this morning and see the what remnants where left behind from the first ever high school football game from Iowa to be broadcast on ESPN. The only activity was a couple joggers running around the track.
The only hint [...]

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It’s not everyday that ESPN broadcasts nationally a from a high school in small town in Iowa. In fact, I don’t think it’s ever happened before. But it’s happening tonight in Parkersburg, Iowa just 20 miles from where I live in Cedar Falls, Iowa. 
Parkersburg,of course, would rather not be in this position. It’s not that [...]

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Time it was, and what a time it was,
it was a time of innocence…
                                    Simon & Garfunkel
                                    Bookend Theme 
 
While songwriter Ellie Greenwich never wrote [...]

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“I don’t want film to be a ’slice of life’ because people can get that at home, in the street, or even in front of the movie theater. They don’t have to pay money to see a slice of life. And I avoid out-and-out fantasy because people should be able to identify with the characters. [...]

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Champion surfer Kelly Slater gets it–this whole digital revolution. In an interview he did with Surfing Magazine four years ago Slater  mentioned how the newer younger breed of surfers are not only sitting in on video editing sessions but editing their own footage and he speculated about the future of surfers using video: 
“Guys in 20 [...]

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It seems like there’s been quite a few movies in the last couple years that deal with the changing of the guard from older to younger. And as the boomers start to retire I’m sure that theme will become more popular. One of the great lessons I learned playing sports into college is how every [...]

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If you follow hurricanes at all you may know that Hurricane Bill kicked up some pretty nice waves along the Florida’s east coast the past few days. Florida is not usually known for large waves. Most days the surf pales compared to the best surf spots in California & Hawaii. So one could make the [...]

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