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California Christmas
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
The Marina Del Rey Boat Parade – complete with fireworks – what fun!
Tags: Boat Parade, Christmas in California, Marina del Rey, Mariner's Village, NW Passage, Parade of Lights
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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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281 Favorite Films
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
I started to make a list of my top 10 favorite films. But that was impossible. Then I thought: I’ll do my top 100. No, better make it 250. I finally had to draw the line at 281. I thought maybe I should break them down by genre classics or set apart the 80s high [...]
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The Great Linda Seger Has Done It Again!
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
In this, her ninth book on screenwriting, the industry’s matriarch who essentially created the job of script consultant three decades ago, Dr. Seger has gone on to clarify one of the most elusive elements of screenwriting in her latest book: WRITING SUBTEXT: what lies beneath. “Subtext is the true meaning simmering underneath the words and actions,” she [...]
Tags: Book Reviews, Linda Seger, on the nose, rewriting, Screenwriting, subtext, what lies beneath, Writing Subtext
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My Story Can Beat Up Your Story
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
In My Story Can Beat Up Your Story, Jeffrey Alan Schechter promises “Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay From Opening Hook to Knockout Punch.” Like the old Arthur Murray dance classes where students would learn by stepping on the cut out footprints on the floor, Schechter simplistically breaks down basic screenplay elements into bite-sized pieces, [...]
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