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There has been a movie in regards to just about everything you can imagine, with just about every aspect you could possibly relate to it. One such item that is often common place in many movies is life insurance. There are many films with movie stars that call for the death of a family member with the life insurance policies going to a wife or other individual in the family. Of course, the death is usually a murder or other suspicious event that looks like the relative receiving the money had something to do with it, in order to receive the large insurance policy.
For the rest of the movie, these scripts call for the movie starts to try and determine if the family member had anything to do with the murder and if they should actually receive the money from the insurance policy. Chances are you have seen this take place many times on film and television, and more than likely it is not the last time you are going to see scripts and movie stars portraying a family member becoming murdered just so an individual is able to claim all the money and move onto a better life.
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Sunday, June 17, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Power Of Three
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Stole this one from Coyote Underground Do it if ya wanna...
Three things that scare me:
1 celebrity fantacism in the media (ala Paris, Anna Nicole obsession)
2 The American Idolization and Game Show rape of the television landscape
3 impotence
Three people who make me laugh:
1 Robin Williams
2 movie critics as an entity
3 a handful of wiseass bloggers from my blog roll who give me a run for my money
Three Things I love:
1 caramel apple martinis
2 writing spec screenplays
3 my partner in life crime, Lisa
Three Things I hate:
1 second guessing/conclusion jumping (the worst Olympic sports IMHO)
2 humidity
3 raspberries
Three things I don't understand:
1 organized religion
2 red state/blue state battle politics
3 making celebrities out of normally regular people with media saturation
Three things on my desk:
1 Hollywood Creative Directory
2 self-made screenwriting tips index cards (along with curent logline of my spec)
3 Tweety Bird keychain
Three things I'm doing right now:
1 killing time before Dale Earnhardt Jr. announces the team he is switching to
2 browsing new releases on Napster streaming radio to see what to hear today
3 chatting with my Dad on Yahoo IM
Three things I want to do before I die:
1 write "screenwriter" as my job on my IRS tax form
2 cross country road trip hitting the cities I have never been to before
3 get my weight down to under 200
Three things I can do:
1 Write smooth flowing dialogue and descriptive action sequences
2 see dead people... nah, not really, but I have a knack for identifying celebrities by their voices
3 listen well
Three ways to describe my personality:
1 jovial
2 quixotic
3 wisenheimer
Three things I can't do:
1 swim
2 skate
3 stop tinkering with my scripts
Three actors you enjoy immensely
1. Al Pacino
2. Sean Penn
3. ------------- (it changes daily) today it's George Clooney
Three things you regret
1. not starting my writing career earlier, like 10 years earlier
2. not branching into other products on ebay so I'd have a transition phase and not get stuck with something that isn't selling anymore, hence my day job sucks now
3. spending all that money entering screenplay contests
Three favourite movies
1. The Graduate
2. Ocean's 11 (first remake)
3. Jaws
Three favourite screenplays
1. Fabulous Baker Boys
2. Rocky
3. Alien
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Stole this one from Coyote Underground Do it if ya wanna...
Three things that scare me:
1 celebrity fantacism in the media (ala Paris, Anna Nicole obsession)
2 The American Idolization and Game Show rape of the television landscape
3 impotence
Three people who make me laugh:
1 Robin Williams
2 movie critics as an entity
3 a handful of wiseass bloggers from my blog roll who give me a run for my money
Three Things I love:
1 caramel apple martinis
2 writing spec screenplays
3 my partner in life crime, Lisa
Three Things I hate:
1 second guessing/conclusion jumping (the worst Olympic sports IMHO)
2 humidity
3 raspberries
Three things I don't understand:
1 organized religion
2 red state/blue state battle politics
3 making celebrities out of normally regular people with media saturation
Three things on my desk:
1 Hollywood Creative Directory
2 self-made screenwriting tips index cards (along with curent logline of my spec)
3 Tweety Bird keychain
Three things I'm doing right now:
1 killing time before Dale Earnhardt Jr. announces the team he is switching to
2 browsing new releases on Napster streaming radio to see what to hear today
3 chatting with my Dad on Yahoo IM
Three things I want to do before I die:
1 write "screenwriter" as my job on my IRS tax form
2 cross country road trip hitting the cities I have never been to before
3 get my weight down to under 200
Three things I can do:
1 Write smooth flowing dialogue and descriptive action sequences
2 see dead people... nah, not really, but I have a knack for identifying celebrities by their voices
3 listen well
Three ways to describe my personality:
1 jovial
2 quixotic
3 wisenheimer
Three things I can't do:
1 swim
2 skate
3 stop tinkering with my scripts
Three actors you enjoy immensely
1. Al Pacino
2. Sean Penn
3. ------------- (it changes daily) today it's George Clooney
Three things you regret
1. not starting my writing career earlier, like 10 years earlier
2. not branching into other products on ebay so I'd have a transition phase and not get stuck with something that isn't selling anymore, hence my day job sucks now
3. spending all that money entering screenplay contests
Three favourite movies
1. The Graduate
2. Ocean's 11 (first remake)
3. Jaws
Three favourite screenplays
1. Fabulous Baker Boys
2. Rocky
3. Alien
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