Hey yo, I’m just like my country I’m young, scrappy and hungry My Shot written by Lin-Manuel Miranda There’s a scene in Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood where a young actress asks an older and fading actor who” reading a book, “Where are you in the story?” It’s a question with a double […]
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“There’s no movie that can’t be told through its emotions. And there’s no movie that succeeds that is told any other way. In my opinion.” —Billy Ray I want to sneak in one more post before stepping back into a run of posts on Hamilton (and the emotional “I want” song My Shot.) This is […]
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“[When I was in my early 20s] my father told me to read a book called Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman. . . . It was just so insightful about how screenwriting actually works. And I think I imitated Goldman’s style in a pretty thief kind of way. Reading his screenplays really taught […]
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Here’s some quirky short videos featuring actress Winona Ryder in Winona, Minnesota. (Winona was actually born in Winona.) When I lived in Iowa I made occasional trips through Winona, MN which sits on the Mississippi River across from Wisconsin. These were part of a commercial for Squarespace that aired during the Super Bowl this year and […]
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I’ll continue my run of posts on Hamilton Monday. But today I wan to post a couple videos that Apple just dropped featuring writer/director Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash). A couple of years ago I did a presentation at a college and was asked what camera I was excited about most. I knew they […]
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You want to get ahead? Fools who run their mouths off wind up dead Aaron Burr, Sir lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda Years ago someone (and I wish I could remember who) said America is the kind of place where people cheer you as you enter the triumphant gates, and then throw rocks at you when […]
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In New York you can be a new man (just you wait) In New York you can be a new man (just you wait) The song Alexander Hamilton written by LIn-Manuel Miranda Before I get into the first song of Hamilton, I wanted to sneak in a post about the show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda, going […]
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Lin-Manuel Miranda wastes no time hooking the audience in his musical Hamilton. Not only do the first first beats of the opening song “Alexander Hamilton” grab your attention, but there is no wasting time jumping into the story: How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of […]
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Before Hamilton my knowledge of Alexander Hamilton was as thin as a $10 bill. Where was Lin-Manuel Miranda when I was struggling through American History my junior year of high school? Oh, that’s right, he wasn’t born yet. Back in 1979 I was much more interested in movies, music, playing football and baseball, and girls […]
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I am not throwin’ away my shot! I am not throwin’ away my shot! Hey yo, I’m just like my country I’m young scrappy and hungry Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down) Singer/songwriter Paul Simon preceded Hamilton—the play, not the person. And I sure hope he knows it. I just learned over the weekend how […]
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