Screenwriting From Iowa

“I’m Mary Tyler Moore and I am…an actress, an animal lover, the chaorman of the Juvenile

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Carl Reiner on casting Mary Tyler Moore for The Dick Van Dyke Show:

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“I will never forget one day [Lucille Ball] sort of walked out of the studio and then came back, and came up to me and said, ‘you’re very good,’ and then walked on. That was the greatest gift I ever received in this business. I don’t think I have another moment that compares with the […]

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“Today Mary Richards and her DNA can be found in nearly every major female character in primetime.” Tina Fey on the character Mary Tyler Moore played in the TV show that lead to Moore winning four of her seven Primetime Emmy Awards The day after I won a Regional Emmy for this blog in 2008 […]

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“If you’re looking for an excuse, you’ll find one.” Actor/Director Denzel Washington  60 Minutes interview December 18, 2016 Congrats to all those nominated for Oscars today. But since much of the national press centered around the major turn around of people of color being nominated for Oscar Awards compared to last year, I thought it […]

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I meant to post last Monday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but life happens. This is a slightly adjusted re-post from a 2008 post with a similar title. (Interesting to think that the original post was written before Obama became the first black President of the United States.) “Find a strong-willed character with a […]

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“Sometime in the past few years, the blog died…R.I.P. The Blog, 1997-2013.” Jason Kottke NeimanLab (2013)   BLOOD Robert Redford’s character in the 1996 film Up Close and Personal explains the time tested news reporting truism, “If it bleeds, it leads.” So here we go… Today marks the ninth anniversary of this blog. And there’s blood everywhere. […]

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I’ve been fortunate to see my share of space launches and sunrises in Florida, and I never get tired of either.  But last weekend before I headed home after my week long adventure I stopped in Satellite Beach and was looking for something different that a typical sunrise photo. I came across this bird hunting […]

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 “You know, there’s always been that hype about people fighting for waves at Sebastian, but when I was a kid, it seemed super aggressive. There were always a bunch of older guys out there taking any wave they wanted. I remember being about 10 years old and trying to get a wave from this guy […]

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Joe’s Stone Crab first opened in 1913 and is the go to place for stone crabs. I always wanted to go there way back when I was a student at the University of Miami but it was too expensive. Over the years on trips to South Florida for whatever reason (long wait times, didn’t have time […]

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