Screenwriting From Iowa

Just your average blue sky day in Salem, Massachusetts where a guy on single wheel electric skateboard carrying a dog on his hip, outnumber witches. Scott W. Smith    

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While in Gloucester, Massachusetts a couple of days ago I stopped by the Crow’s Nest and had a beer and remembered the six man crew of the Andrea Gale died at sea in what was called the perfect storm in 1991.  Sebastian Junger wrote the book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the […]

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In my travels throughout the United States there are pockets that I’ve missed. One of those, Gloucester, MA, I was able to visit Sunday. It’s less than an hour north east of Boston, but an area I just couldn’t fit into my previous trips to New England. I took the above photo of Gloucester’s Fisherman […]

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“I believe science might offer the answer to the Curse of the Bambino.” Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) Moneyball My love for traveling is rooted in not traveling much until I was 19-years-old, and following baseball as a kid. Cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Boston were linked in my mind […]

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“If Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson were in the same lineup, who would bat cleanup?” David Bauder CBS News, A Musical Field of Dreams  Both Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan are baseball fans. Back in 2004 they toured minor league baseball fields performing concerts, including a stop at Principle Park in Des Moines, Iowa where […]

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“People will come to Iowa, for reasons they can’t even fathom.” Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) in Field of Dreams Even before I lived in Iowa between 2003 and 2013, I’d made a pilgrimage to the Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville, Iowa. If it’s on your bucket list of places to visit, than […]

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“Dad was a Yankee fan then, so I rooted for Brooklyn. In ’58, the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other reasons to fight.” Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) Field of Dreams  If you never watched Field of Dreams (1989) then this blog is not a good starting point, because it’s about the end […]

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“The setting of [Field of Dreams] is just so inspired, and so perfect. You look at the movie, and the cinematography has aged really well. What’s more American than apple pie? Well, literally, nothing is more American than a cornfield in Iowa, right? And so many times in the movie someone talks about the smell—the […]

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I saw Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood nine times while it was in theaters. That’s right, I saw Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film nine times—don’t judge.  That tripled my viewing record of any film while it was still in theaters. It’s an amazingly rewatchable movie, so it’s no surprise that I enjoyed The Rewatchables podcast […]

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I saw Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood nine times while it was in theaters. That’s right, I saw Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film nine times—don’t judge.  That tripled my viewing record of any film while it was still in theaters. It’s an amazingly rewatchable movie, so it’s no surprise that I enjoyed the Rewatchable podcast […]

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