This has been the longest the dumb filmmaker has been away fom his blog since he began it. Things have been very busy for him, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, and he promises to stop
Don’t Just Take My Word On It
I wrote the blog about August: Osage County, the Broadway play, last night about 10pm. I woke up this morning and opened my New York Times to see this glowing review by Charles Isherwood. All happy families are alike, Tolstoy
One Strike Down One to Go
A few weeks ago I wrote about the writer’s guild strike and how it is affecting people on all ends of the entertainment business pay scale. Until now I haven’t mentioned the other big strike- the Broadway stagehand strike that
Chuck Close
Perhaps the most frustrating thing to me about being a dumb filmmaker is the lack of opportunities I get to practice my craft. I just can’t wake up in the morning and announce that today I am going to make
The Future is Unwritten
Career opportunities are the ones that never knockEvery job they offer you is to keep you out the dockCareer opportunity, the ones that never knock Last week my friend Dan took me to see The Future is Unwritten, the documentary
A Death in the (TV) Family
When I learned about the passing of Dick Wilson, TV’s Mr. Whipple from the Charmin ads, I cannot say I was overly saddened, but it did make me pause and reflect on some of my wasted youth in front of
Religion-part 1
I guess it should come as no surprise that organized religion is having an influence on the film business. I am not talking about films like Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ or Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ, but
Solidarity
This is a picture of my friend Craig walking the WGA picket line in Los Angeles earlier this week. His TV show, Unhitched, for Fox is on hold due to the strike and Craig walked the line in support of
All The President’s Men
Yesterday’s post about Peter Morgan and his films The Deal, The Queen and The Last King of Scotland has me thinking about other movies that depict real news events in a dramatic fashion. How someone dramatizes and makes interesting a
The Real Deal
I saw the British Film The Deal the other day. The film depicts the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown during the Thatcher and Major eras of British politics. It was written by Peter Morgan (pictured here) who also
