thedoc-5 Reviews

Hello, He Lied & Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches (2002 TV Movie)

Please Make This A DVD

[10/10 · 2 March 2011]

I use it in classes and workshops because it shows the business of the writer/ producer side of The Business better than anything I've found. Lynda Obst book is amazing but students need this video take on that. AMC and Tailslate need to release this. I'm not just talking to hear myself. The producers she interviews are at the top of their games. Including Lynda and her new TV Series Hot In Cleveland. The clip on the set of The Wash tells beginning filmmakers and screenwriters a great deal about even what Hollywood considers a Small Budget movie. For 10 years, I have taught regularly at the L.A. Screen writing Expos, the University of Arizona, Prescott College and Pima College. I have specialized in writing for film and television, theater history, acting, theater survey, media survey, journalism (reporting), humanities survey and script analysis (at my successful Internet business ScriptDoctor.com Rated No. 1 in Nation 2010). As a professional journalist, I won several awards as a film and theater reviewer, editor and reporter. I have extensive experience as a theater/film director and as a member of both professional unions, Equity and SAG. I've acted in theater and film. My newest project is CoyoteMoon Films.com

National Theatre Live: The Habit of Art (2010)

Celebrating the habit of art because

[10/10 · 20 July 2010]

anyone who has ever worked on an original script will cherish this play by Alan Bennett, who has now been added to my short list of heroes: Mike Nichols, David Simon, Meryl Streep, Horton Foote, Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith. Who do you know that can make Beyond The Fringe, Prick Up Your Ears, Talking Heads, The History Boys and then this one? With recent plays like Red and Circle Mirror Transformation, watching the habit of artists at work can be and should be peeking at our own humanity. Even plays and movies like Noises Off, My Favorite Year and the wonderful Bullets Over Broadway give us this great extra level of actors being actors being the comic pageant that is humanity. Shakespeare's mechanicals rehearsing Pyramus & Thisbe would approve. If the National Theatre does not release The Habit Of Art on DVD for all of us who love dramatic storytelling, then it will be a crime against humanity.