Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” Category
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Postcard #51 (Cotton Fields)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaWhen I was a little bitty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle In them old cotton fields back home Cotton Fields by Lead Belly You may have never seen cotton fields in the south, or heard of Huddie Ledbetter—who is better known as Lead Belly. But the two came together in 1940 when […] “For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.” The Optimist’s Daughter written by Eudora Welty (And included on Welty’s headstone in Jackson, Mississippi) Pulitzer Prize winning writer Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She earned an English degree from the University of […] Yazoo City— can you even say the name without smiling? Yazoo City not really a town you go out of your way to visit—unless you know the work of writer Willie Morris (1934-1999) . It’s located about an hour’s drive north west from the Mississippi state capital of Jackson. It’s not really convenient to I-20 and […] “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good and bad—Read!” William Faulkner Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning writer William Faulkner moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was three and after a long life in literature, and a short career as a screenwriter in Hollywood, Faulkner died at age 64 and is buried in Oxford. I […] “Before Elvis, there was nothing.” John Lennon If you want proof that big things can come from somewhat small and unlikely places I have just two words to share; Tupelo. Elvis. According to the website for the birthplace of Elvis Presley here’s the history behind the building above I photographed Saturday afternoon in Tupelo: Elvis Aaron […] Last night I stayed in Huntsville, Alabama and took this shot at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center before I pulled out of town early this afternoon. Though I never saw the 1986 film SpaceCamp I remembered that the story was inspired by a space camp held for kids in Huntsville. The movie starred the up […] These two lanes will take us anywhere We got one last chance to make it real Thunder Road/Bruce Springsteen Today is the first post I’ve ever writing from a film location. Yesterday I had a chance to roll down Thunder Road and tap into my inner Robert Mitchum. I took the above picture as I […] “You will be a big deal for about ten seconds. Since I ‘broke through’ (ugh) six years ago, countless younger, funnier, smarter writers have flocked to Hollywood and TOOK MY JERB. That’s the nature of this business. Just ask any of the actresses who were on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue in the nineties. Believe […] “Never forget this: Ordinary pumpkins are always forgotten. Only the giant pumpkin draws a crowd and lives on holiday cards, refrigerators and grainy You Tube videos…forever. The giant pumpkin is legend. And when you’ve grown one…you will be a legend, too.” Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in […] This week I’m in Charlotte, North Carolina for a video/ photo gig. After my shoot this afternoon, I spotted an interesting combination of pumpkins, lights, and the fall sky and knew I had to fired off a few shots. North Carolina has a long history in the film and television business (Bull Durham, Blue Velvet, […] |
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