When Finalists were announced: October 13, 2008 October 6, 2006 October 21, 2005 October 15, 2004 They said early October, but most of those look mid-October. Eek. Can’t find any more dates than those 4. Q: What are the prizes? A: Up to five $30,000 fellowships are awarded to new screenwriters each year. From 1986 …
Monthly Archive: September 2009
Sep 29 2009
Roman Polanski; No Sympathy
It’s not OK to drug and rape children; sex with a child is rape. People who admit to raping children and flee the country should be brought to justice. http://jezebel.com/5369395/whoopi-on-roman-polanski-it-wasnt-rape+rape
Sep 29 2009
Jack Finlay: Obituary, note from the Film School, and his sister
From the FSU Mailing list: Am so sorry to have to share with you news about the death of Jack Finlay, who has acted in many, many student films, always ready to help out as an extra or in a major role. His contributions to our films and his happy smile will be missed. Following …
Sep 28 2009
First Day As Story Assistant; Argument with Apparently Illiterate Religious Types
I just had to sign a confidentiality agreement which says I can’t reveal the nature and details of my employment. Does that mean I can’t tell people what I do? Like, if I was an editor on Toddlers and Tiaras, would I have to be like, “I work on a show in some capacity, that’s …
Sep 28 2009
Busy Weekend; Bad day for a Migraine
Friday was crazy. I got asked to write a pilot by a web producer, to write a polished first act of a feature for a manager, to edit a short, to add something to a reel, and that it’s possible that I will be promoted to Assistant Editor in January and that I will be …
Sep 26 2009
Lots of Twitter Visitors
Where are they coming from? I obsess over the stats on this blog way too much. Probably human nature. In other news, I went to the best restaurant, Panda Inn in Pasadena. Yum. Go Into the Story’s Scott Myers answers a question I asked about how to turn a contest placement into an agent.
Sep 25 2009
Project Runway 606; unimpressed
I mean seriously, this was a challenge that could have been so badass. Only one person did anything interesting with it. Epperson, or however the hell his name is, did this really cool Firefly inspired denim coat dress thing that was balls out. Everything else was boring, uninspired, or just plain bad. I’m sad pretty …
Sep 25 2009
A real person read my script
We’ll call these people S and T. S is a manager/producer type, T is S’s assistant. F, my creative partner, has a connection with S, in that she really loved Prombies!, the short he and I made that was about erections turning boys into zombies, and she has been in touch with him a couple …
Sep 24 2009
Forgive my Gay Politics for a Moment; Good news
Three pieces of potentially good news on the National Front for Gay Rights and AIDS 1. The US is poised to lift its travel and immigration ban on people with HIV. This means that people applying to live in the US or visit it will no longer be discriminated against solely because they have AIDS. …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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