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While many people dream of a white Christmas, you rarely here anybody pine for a white halloween. But that’s what it looks like many in the upper northeast will get this Halloween.  Thursday night this is what Maine looked like outside where I ate dinner and watched snow gently fall on the pumpkins.  Now, if [...]

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My two day streak of lobster ended today in Maine, but don’t feel bad for me, I did get to experience a personal culinary first—escargot on an oyster. From the minute we pulled up to The Tides Beach Club on Goose Rocks Beach in Kennebunkport I realized I was a long way from Cedar Falls, Iowa. (Though [...]

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Yesterday on a shoot in Maine I was subjected to eating prison food—and it was better than you think. I don’t know how many prisons today serve lobster for lunch, but many years ago in Maine the lobsters were so plentiful that they would wash up on shore. I was told by the chef that [...]

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Last Saturday night I was invited to and attended a play in Sanford, Florida called Touch and Go written by playwright Jules Corriere. It’s kind of a sweeping overview of the Central Florida town. Corriere crafted the play based on pulling parts of the 1,500 people who had told their own personal story of living [...]

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On Monday I was in Orlando finishing up shooting a video project when I got a call about shooting another project in Maine. About 24 hours later I was in Kennebunkport and this was one of the first sites I stumbled upon— Hidden Pond.    

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“Yeah, there’s a lion on Mount Perry Road and Gratiot Road.” 911 call in Zanesville, Ohio on October 18, 2011 A couple of weeks ago on my way to a location shoot I drove from Canton, Ohio to Charleston, West Virginia on Interstate 77 and made a brief stop in Cambridge, Ohio and took some [...]

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This week I finally got around to watching Tangeled and so I’ve been on a Dan Fogelman kick and just read a blurb from the New York Times last month where Fogelman tells what he’s been reading recently: I’ve read three novels by my new favorite writer, Justin Cronin. His latest, “The Passage,” is post-apocalyptic [...]

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“For me, the goal isn’t to write a novel, it is to write five pages a day. They’re not perfect, they need frequent revision down the road , but at least they exist.” David Morrell (Author of First Blood) Pulled from the audio book The Successful Novelist

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“Dan Fogelman is the new Cameron Crowe.” Script Shadow (November 18, 2010 post) Screenwriter Dan Fogelman has not only racked up an impressive list of movies Cars & Tangled, but his landed some impressive paydays Crazy Stupid Love ($2.5 million) and, according to the LA Times, Fogelman sold a pitch for Imagine for $2 million (with an [...]

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