Archive for Archive for June, 2007
Screenwriting MoFo’s Hollywood Trends that Need to End
After seeing Cinematical’s Hollywood Trends That Need to End, I decided that they’d left off some things that I think need to end as well.
Hollywood Trend #1 that needs to end - Singers trying to act/actors trying to sing
I never needed to see Jamie Foxx singing on screen. And I really didn’t need to hear [...]
Day 45 - back on the wagon
Yes, that’s right I have made it back onto the wagon, turnip truck, etc. - whatever you call it I am back on it.
 More importantly I am up to page 47. I spent the past 30 minutes writing and gained 2 pages. Two pages of glistening beauty. Oh wait, that was that magazine I was [...]
Day 43 - falling off the wagon
Falling off the wagon sounds painful. You might be surprised to know that I have indeed fallen off the wagon at this point, having not written anything on the script since last week. So, I can tell you that falling off the wagon does not hurt.
What hurts is planning on hoisting yourself back up onto [...]
I’ll take Unlikely Pairings for $800…
We won’t discuss the fact that I was reading an article from MSN on Ben Stiller.
And we won’t discuss music video directors directing films.
Or that Ben Stiller’s new indevelopment movie, The Deep, seems like complete and total rubbish. (” …tells the nightmarish story of a man whose battle with a parking ticket gets him sucked [...]
Germans don’t heart Scientology
Possibly the funniest story on Variety.com (at least to me) is that Germany won’t allow the latest Tom Cruise blockbuster Valkyrie to film at German military sites.
Who knew that Germans weren’t down with alien worshipping? The best part of the story is this quote:
In 2005 Cruise referred to psychiatry — which Scientology rejects — as [...]
