“When I first got to Hollywood, I attended acting classes for three years…I wanted to understand the acting process so I could write for actors. Watching them, I learned how to streamline my dialogue—where to hesitate, where to rush—so that the writing itself would give the actor all the clues he needed to find his […]
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Aug
07
2017
 
Postcard #139 (Jason Taylor)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaYesterday Jason Taylor, the great defensive end who played for the Miami Dolphins was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. So I thought this was as good as time as any to post a photo I did of a shoot I did with Jason back in 2012 down in South Florida. […]
Aug
07
2017
That Time Sam Shepard Joined a Traveling Christian Theater GroupPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“‘I just dropped out of nowhere,’ Sam Shepard said of his arrival in New York, at nineteen in the fall of 1963. ‘It was absolute luck that I happened to be there when the whole Off-Off Broadway movement was starting.’ Shepard, a refugee from his father’s farm in California, had spent eight months as an […]
Aug
06
2017
Eugene O’Neill’s Influence on Sam ShepardPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaExcerpt from 2011 Interview magazine interview: Sam Shepard: Oddly enough, it was reading Eugene O’Neill [that sparked the idea of becoming writer].. I’d read Long Day’s Journey Into Night and I remember seeing Sidney Lumet’s black-and-white film adaptation [released in 1962], which I still think is one of the best adaptations of anything—of a book, of […]
Aug
06
2017
Remembering Sam Shepard (PBS)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Sam’s voice was very singular. It was very distinctive.” Playwright Tracy Letts Something in the career of Elvis informs Sam Shepard and [his play] Fool for Love. Perhaps the sheer weight of animal spirits, the flagging optimism over the ramifications of the American dream, the passion that is barely kept in bounds, the lurking undercurrent of violence and destruction, the ghost of the family with its grotesque eccentrics […]
Aug
02
2017
Sam Shepard on a Farm in IowaPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I almost died once…I almost died the first time I saw your mom.” Sam Sheperd’s character Gil talking about Jewell (Jessica Lange) in Country “This movie observes ordinary American lives carefully, and passionately. The family lives on a farm in Iowa. Times are hard, and times are now.” Roger Ebert 1984 film review of the […]
Aug
02
2017
Sam Shepard and the Face of America in a Truck Stop in Sallisaw, OklahomaPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“We’re on our way out, as a culture. America doesn’t make anything anymore! The Chinese make it! Detroit’s a great example. All of those cities that used to be something. If you go to a truck stop in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, you’ll probably see the face of America. How desperate we are. Really desperate. Just raw.” […] “I’m self-taught. I learn everything by doing it. I wasn’t born knowing how to write a play. You do it and hopefully you keep evolving. One really great thing happened was that I discovered Chekhov’s short stories.” Sam Shepard When I was in film school back in the early eighties I don’t think there was […]
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2017
Tim Raines in the Hall of FamePosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaTim Raines was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame today. Born and raised in Sanford, Florida I was fortunate to enough to see him play high school baseball and take photos of him his rookie season with the Montreal Expos when I was a 19-year-old photojournalist for the Sanford Herald. Looking back over […] |
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