Archive for the ‘Public Speaking’ Category
The Minimalist Guide To Understanding The Commerce Of A Script
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
I recently did an interview/blog for GLOCUL MAG - Tackling The Business Side of Creativity: The Minimalist Guide To Understanding The Commerce Of A Script
Tags: Art, balance, commerce, commercial viability, film, Screenplay, script, television, tips, union matrix, writing low-budget films
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Producer’s POV: New Column Just Launched for Script Magazine!
Friday, March 8th, 2013
How (and Where) Should I Pitch My TV Show? It Depends… Like any other sales activity, you have to consider: What it is you’re trying to sell? What is your actual product? How can you best show it off? Who are you selling it to? Do they even want what you’re trying to sell them? [...]
Tags: ABC Family, bible, cable, IFTA, NBC, networks, pitching, Producer's POV, proposal, Script Magazine, The Writer's Store, TV Land, USA, Writing for TV
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What do burlesque boobs, booze, board games and brains have in common?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
They were all a part of this past weekend’s Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Regional Gathering. (My brother always teases me that we had to add “Greater”…otherwise we’d just be lame). ;-/ But Mensa events and people are not at all what most prejudge. (If [...]
Tags: acceptance, Alan Rachins, all-female improv troupe, April, astrology, atheists, big bang theory, Billy, boyfriend, branding, broken arrows, burlesque, conservatives, contagion, Cubs, current events, Daniel Kinno, Dharma & Greg, Dizzy Von Damn!, dominatrix, e-publishing, endorphins, feng shui, financial, Fred & Ginger, Fruit of the Loom leaf, geeks, Gene Steichen, ghosts, GLAAM, God, Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa Regional Gathering, Griffith Park observatory, Hollywood, hormonal connection, kink, LA Law, Leif Ganvort, liberals, LOLA, Mensa, Mensa Mind Games, Mensa RG, Mr. Snapper & Mr. Buddy, mythology, nametag stickers, nerds, oxytocin, personal space GPS, pleasure and pain, pub crawl, real estate strategies, Red Snapper, RG, Screenwriting, scuba diving deaths in the Mojave Desert, Sheldon, ShowBiz Mensans, skeptics, smoke jumpers, space shuttle, St Louis, striptease, Sudoku, sustainable economic systems, The Amazing Spider-Man, thermonuclear missiles, top 2% of IQs, UFOs, vaudeville, welcome, werewolf games
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GATE 2 – What an Amazing Event! ;-)
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
GATE (the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment) is a nonprofit 501c(6) membership trade association that strives to inspire and empower professionals in the media, entertainment and arts to consciously create and distribute transformational content. Founded by visionary Chairman and CEO, John Raatz, last night’s “coming out” event brought “the tribe” together to activate and catalyze [...]
Tags: 12/22/12, 196 countries of the world in alphabetical order, Amish Grace, Annie Lennox, Ash Ruiz, Baba Oyadare Ranson III, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Damien Rose, Dara Marks, Didgeridoo, Don Miguel Ruiz, Drew Dellinger, Eckhart Tolle, Edward James Olmos, Faith Rivera, Frances Fisher, Fred Alan Wolf, Funkamentalz, Gary Zukav, GATE, Gate Community, Gate2, Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, Hieroglyphic Stairway, Inside Story, It's 3:23 in the morning, Jahan Raymond, Jean Houston, Jim Carrey, John Raatz, Kate McCallum, Kyle Cease, Lili Hadyn, Louie Anderson, Marianne Williamson, Marta Mobley, my great great grandchildren, NOW, only a new seed can yield a new crop, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Quantum Physics, Rafael Bejarano, SuperBowl XLVI, The Four Agreements, Tibetan Bowl, violin, Wade Colwell-Sandoval, what did you do, Worldside
Posted in Art, Book Mentions, Books, Career Development, Craft, Directing, Drama, Events, Favorites, In Development, PowerNetworking, Projects, Public Speaking, Reviews, Screenwriting, Travel, Writing for TV | 1 Comment »
Flash Forward is Back! :)
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
I’m really excited and truly honored to be coaching the first big Flash Forward in years. I’m thrilled to be joining a dozen terrific alumni coaches (see list below), all of us volunteering our time to mentor and support the 80 actors, directors, TV and film screenwriters, playwrights, producers, composers, singers, musicians, magicians, comedians, Dept [...]
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