Confessions of a Climate Change Comedy Screenwriter
If you are seated at your writing desk it may seem that the first task to attend to is bringing the words of your characters to life on the page. Often the story unfolds by what the characters say, much less attention is given to how a character moves, what they are wearing, even the […]
Read More physical comedyA good few words are nice, a sharp eye catching visual is priceless.
Read More muscle memory movieMen are just that one subway stop away from a more fully realized understanding of love.
Read More love with road closuresTo the north near Carmel is Malpaso Creek and to the south near San Simeon is San Capoforo Creek, between the two is Big Sur. Erupting out of the Pacific Ocean rise the Santa Lucia Mountains. The Coast Highway rises and falls here, its winding path cuts through the steep rock and rubble, the highway […]
Read More Paul’s Slide Changes EverythingTruth as told by a highway traffic control worker turns out to be worth its weight in barricades. Our trip north from Morro Bay up the Coast Highway would terminate 50 miles from our start at Limekiln State Park. This is where we meet the grizzled veteran of many a highway closures. Born in Bakersfield […]
Read More Road Closure Landslide BarricadesWe drive to camp south of Big Sur. We’ll head over to Death Valley for two days, then to Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs. This last stop isn’t too far from Searchlight, Nevada where the pugilistic Harry Reid got his first haircut and fistfight. I’m still plotting out the next screenplay— Cliffhanger— that’s a working title of […]
Read More CliffhangerI’ll never forget seeing West Side Story for the first time. Until that moment I had thought the American musical could never accommodate what Bernstein, Sondheim and Jerome Robbins would stage for audiences. West Side Story’s impact was like St Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band, 2001 A Space Odyssey—these are not insignificant moments, we don’t […]
Read More What the World Needs Now—Capturing Leonard Bernstein’s life would revolve around the story of his extraordinary marriage to Felicity— Felicia Montealegre Bernstein—
Read More Maestro—May-December screenwriter Samy Burke was a terrific post screening conversation at the after screening party.
Read More Mill Valley Film FestivalI don’t have to use my imagination at all. The story of our climate emergency is volunteered by people I meet while I travel near and far.
Read More Giant Sequoias script inspiration