Tag: screenplay
The Orson Box (2)
UNITED STATES—I did an astonishing amount of scanning and reading that morning in Atwater Village going through that Orson box. There Orson's screenplays from...
Lame Duck Period
UNITED STATES—In Danny’s coffee shop Uncle John looked at me levelly and said, “Someday you are going to hit it big.” He said it...
Grand Finale
UNITED STATES—The filmmaker Everett Lewis with whom I was collaborating on “The Strawberry Butterfly” used to peer down and say “yep yep yep” when...
Sitting Pretty
UNITED STATES—Money in the bank--that's what this new iteration of the screenplay way. Confident, buoyant, even a little cocky. It was heady to be...
Payday
UNITED STATES—I have friends in high places. One of them is Jesús of Hollywood. He recently told me I was due a big payday....
Collaboration
UNITED STATES—The writer-director Everett Lewis called me up a week or so later and said he had read my screenplay. He said it was...
Payoff
UNITED STATES—Wylie had a big house on Sixth Ave., near Country Club Park. The neighborhood is just as peaceful as it sounds. The house...
Breaking Out
UNITED STATES—On a Tuesday night in July 1990, I finally met with Larry Karaszewski, a screenwriter I knew from USC. We had a lot...
Shockwaves
UNITED STATES—In the weeks after the play’s successful run (one satisfying performance celebrated to the hilt), I showed rooms out and distributed three-day notices....
There’s A Screenwriter On My Couch
UNITED STATES—That June, I got off the Tijuana-downtown Los Angeles bus with one huge suitcase and moseyed over to the house on Nadeau Drive...
