I saw where highly regarded screenwriting teacher Michael Hauge will be teaching a one-day workshop in Minneapolis Saturday (9/26) and this offers a good chance for Midwest writers to get a taste of whom Shane Black (Lethal Weapon) said. “When I pick up the phone for help, Michael Hauge is the call I make.” He’s [...]
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2009
 
Screenwriting Quote of the Day #104 (Robert Benton)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaWriter/director Robert Benton grew up in Texas where he suffered from Dyslexia, failed his only creative writing class before dropping out of college, but went on to write Bonnie and Clyde on his way to being nominated for six Oscars. “I need to know two people can stay together forever.”
Sep
21
2009
Grey Gardens, Emmys & Michael SucsyPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaLast night I just caught a few minutes of the Primetime Emmy awards and glad to see Jessica Lange and Ken Howard win Emmys for their roles in Grey Gardens. The HBO movie also picked up the Emmy for Made-for-TV Movie. It’s always great to see someone like Howard who as been nominated for 10 [...]
Sep
20
2009
Writer Larry Gelbart (1928-2009)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaChicago-born writer Larry Gelbart died on September 11, 2009 adding one more name to what I’m now officially calling the summer of death. Good thing fall starts tomorrow. After 72 years on the air the CBS soap opera Guiding Light faded off screen for the last time on Friday. The show which began in 1937 as a radio program found its way to TV in 1952. Over 15,000 shows aired. That’s a lot of scripts.
Sep
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2009
Trouble in Film Incentive ParadisePosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaOkay, most people don’t think of Iowa as paradise. Not in the traditional sense. But as people wander into the state they’re often surprised to find a kind of paradise that could be described as a quality of life paradise. Blue skies, friendly people, safe neighborhoods, affordable housing, little traffic and the list goes on. [...] Puff, the magic dragon lived by the seaAnd frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee
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2009
Writer Jim Carroll (1950-2009)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaLast Friday the writer of the novel The Basketball Diaries, Jim Carroll, died in New York. His novel was made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a youth who is a basketball player with a heroin addiction . It’s a story of crime that Carroll lived first hand. But along the way he also [...] The life and death of Patrick Swayze will get plenty of press the next couple days. Movie stars get that kind of publicity. But let me get in a plug for a man who was said to be “one of the greatest people of the 20th century” and another called him the “greatest human being [...] |
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