Screenwriting From Iowa

No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. —John Donne (from the poem For Whom the Bell Tolls) Yesterday I visited Ernest Hemingway’s grave in Ketchum, Idaho. After college I did the drive around the county and find yourself thing and made a […]

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When I visited Shoshone Falls yesterday I overheard someone say “I didn’t even know this was here.”  But it’s right there in Twin Falls, Idaho. It’s off the radar for many people, but not far off Interstate. And and it’s not only been there quite a while, but said to be 100 feet taller than […]

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Visiting the Old Idaho State Penitentiary definitely reminded me of my trip to “The Real and Creepy Shawshank Prison. ” Scott W. Smith    

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“Right before [landing the role in] Breaking Bad I was struggling to pay my rent . . .  I had no money and I read the pilot for Breaking Bad and I knew I had to fight for it.” Actor Aaron Paul Three-time Emmy-winning actor Aaron Paul, who played  Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad, first decided he wanted to be […]

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Who doesn’t like a retro sign and a blue sky. Took this photo yesterday at Fanci Freez in Boise, Idaho before I had my first ever banana milkshake.    

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I took this photo of the Liberty Theater yesterday morning in Lewiston, Idaho. I don’t know how many of this postcards have been photos of classic main street movie theaters in the United States, but this isn’t the first and it won’t be the last. Scott W. Smith

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I took this photo today overlooking Lewiston, Idaho.  According to Wikipedia, “Lewiston is located at the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater River, thirty miles (50 km) upstream and southeast of the Lower Granite Dam. Because of dams (and their locks) on the Snake and Columbia River, Lewiston is reachable by some ocean-going vessels.” This is the region where the Lewis and Clark expedition […]

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  I’m on the road and still haven’t got my post on the mini-series Chernobyl where I want it to be so I’m going to need to push that back another week or so. In the meantime, here’s a link to all the Chernobyl scripts by Craig Mazin. Today I had lunch at the Clinkerdagger in Spokane, […]

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I did finish watching the HBO mini-series Chernobyl and plan to write a post about it tomorrow. In the meantime, yesterday I saw the trailer for Once Upon a Time in . . . Hollywood and it triggered a few things. A few days ago a friend of mine was in outside his midcentury home in […]

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“What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we’ll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.” Opening lines of HBO’s Chernobyl I’m going to finish watching the five-part series Chernobly in the next day or two and […]

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