Archive for March, 2007
Jon Stewart does Harvey Weinstein
Couldn’t resist. From The Daily Show, March 15, 2007.
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Posted: March 26th, 2007 under Announcements.
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One of the good things about having smart friends is when they critique your work, you may also get some insight to your writing strengths and weaknesses.
A friend recently returned a TV spec script of mine with comments and though one of his notes was specific to the script, I realized that it could describe [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2007 under The Craft.
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Shui Jiao by Wesley Du
Light posting this week. I’m directing a staged reading of a new play by Wesley Du, UCLA MFA Playwriting student. If you happen to be in the LA area, please come by and check it out.
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Lodestone Theatre Ensemble presents
the next installment in the Yellow Box series:
A reading of a new play
SHUI JIAO (DUMPLING)
by Wesley Du
directed [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2007 under Announcements.
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Diversity
On February 28, 2007, I attended the 3rd Annual NAACP Hollywood Bureau Symposium at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences featuring the cast of “Heroes.” NAACP CEO Bruce Gordon called himself a numbers guy and pointed to the number of successful shows on network TV that employ diverse casts such as “Lost,” “Grey’s [...]
Posted: March 11th, 2007 under Commentary.
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Kudos to Karl
Great news over the wire today. Fellow Bruin and all around good guy Karl Williams sold his spec Punctured. All Karl had to do was win TWO screenwriting prizes with it in the 2005 Austin Film Festival.
Actually, Karl won a third screenwriting prize in that same festival that year with a different script.
“Punctured” [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2007 under Announcements.
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