Stuff Screenwriters Like: Spunky Blonde Ladies With Accents
The Spunky Blonde Lady With An Accent is an awards favorite, and she’s not stopping this year. Disney’s resurrecting the Seabiscuit franchise with Diane Lane in a bad wig. And granted, Lane’s character doesn’t really have an accent, but based on the fact that she whispers through the whole trailer, I’d bet she’s trying really … Read more
Stuff Screenwriters Like: Sperm babies
Once upon a time, Ally McBeal spent five seasons of her career-dominated litigating life trying to find Mr. Right. The answer wasn’t the boring childhood sweetheart or Bon Jovi or even ROBERT DOWNEY JR. It was a kid. A kid accidentally conceived through a clinical trial egg donation (I’m not making this up). A kid … Read more
A conversation
Meg (my sister): Did I tell you about the time that Mom skipped church because she was playing Scrabble on Facebook? Mom: Wait, did I? Meg: Yeah, I told everyone about it when they asked about you. Mom: No, I was uploading an album. Not Scrabble. It was taking forever!
Ways to be cool in L.A. (August 2010)
Hang out around Sunset and Santa Monica. Especially during the Sunset Junction festivities. The part-music-festival-part-street-fair benefits a youth program, and is the biggest hipster gathering I have seen since the last time I was in American Apparel on a weekend (okay, so like, 8 days). After coffee-snobbing at Silverlake’s Intelligentsia with Dave Eggars essays, Bret Easton … Read more
A Conversation
During a friendly discussion of actors in danger of being overplayed… Eric (friend): Zac Efron is a WAY better actor than the quality of the roles he’s given! Alex (roomie): That’s nice. But we were talking about Zach Galifinakis…
The Wives – New Jersey 2.14
While Perri went off to reconnect with her British roots, I was busy settling (for real, this time) to my new apartment. One of the best aspects of it is its 2-block proximity to Denny, my newest Wives co-host. Last night, we jumped ahead to the latest (and greatest?) episode of RHONJ together. And despite … Read more
Stuff Screenwriters Like: Quirky Dream Girl
Oh, the darling of modern film and television, the stuff of shy male fantasy. Screenwriters employ this cinematic convention in romantic comedies so often that by now she’s pretty easy to spot. She’s youthful. She’s playful. She’s knowledgeable about semi-obscure indie rock. She’s cute in a totally trendy-but-alternative way. She’s probably a little damaged and … Read more
