Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Getting Things Right
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
I’ve just finished reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I am struck by how useful a simple checklist can be to professionals as divergent as surgeons in the emergency room to commercial airline pilots in eliminating potentially fatal mistakes in incredibly stressful situations. While not usually life threatening, our decisions [...]
Tags: 1998, artist, Atul Gawande, Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, commercial airline pilot, Director, ditched, emergency room, entertainment industry, entrepreneur, ER, Geoffrey H. Smart, greenlight, Heather Hale, independent filmmaker, Internal Rate of Return, IRR, LitCentral, Miracle on the Hudson, networks, Producer, production funds, screenwriter, surgeons, The Airline Captain, The Art and Science of Human Capital Valuation, The Art Critic, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, The Infiltrator, the Prosecutor, The Sponge, The Suitor, The Terminator, US Airways Flight 1549, VC, venture capitalists
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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
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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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Which Show Should I Spec?
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
Writers are unfortunately often perceived to be at the bottom of the food chain in the feature world. But in the world of TV, it’s a very different story. TV Writers are some of Hollywood’s best-paid and most respected professionals. But the odds of breaking in (or back in) to that coveted writer’s room seem [...]
Tags: 30 Rock, 90210, Aaron Spelling, All is Lost, big bang theory, Breaking Bad, cable, Castle, CBS Diversity Program, character’s point of view, Charmed, close-ended, Comedies, Community, Cougar Town, Criminal Minds, CSI:NY, Dexter, dilemma, episode, feature, Girlfriends, Glee, goal, Hollywood, How I Met Your Mother, irony, Jen Grisanti, Mad Men, Medium, Melrose Place, modern family, multi-camera, NBC Writer’s on the Verge, NCIS, network, Numbers, Nurse Jackie, one act play, Parenthood, pilot, procedural, screenplays, serial, series, single camera, sophomore shows, Spec, speculative, subtext, Supernatural, The 4400, the closer, The Good Wife, The Mentalist, The Walking Dead, three camera, Tracking Board, True Blood, TV Writers, Two and a Half Men, unique voice, United States of Tara, White Collar, writing portfolio
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