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It’s now such an ironclad convention lately in every single TV show or movie where there’s a “winner” to show the final three contestants, one after the other. The winner is NEVER the last one you see before the announcement.  It’s always the second to last one. This makes sen...

Somehow this old photo of me has gotten 4 or 5 new “likes” today on The Face Place — I’m not sure why, although perhaps inspired by my friends Jenny’s comment about missing Cosmic Play, the super-advanced class I used to teach in NYC. It is a pose I believe I semi-created R...

Last night I had an inspiration — really a re-inspiration/re-realization:  it’s high time I started my days by focusing on my 1) alignment and 2) my creative work before I do anything else. A decade of teaching private yoga in NYC + my own basic personality + other projects, have fostered ...

Of course I’ve long known the historical/cultural reference, but I realize I’ve never seen an actual production of any kind of MEDEA. I was thinking about this today since I met up with Yale roommate Peter to retrieve my long-lost navy, Ralph Lauren, GO-ANYWHERE blazer that I left at their hous...

Printed out all 302 pages this morning — which nearly depleted my printer — and now about to start tackling the edit process. I’m kinda in love with Final Draft Pro — this is the first script I’ve written using it — in that it has made this entirely formatting challenge ...

Done. Well, sort of.  And at 3:30 am. 302 pages of a script that should be 100, maybe 120 pages max. And now, the editing begins. I cannot help but think of another Edward, specifically Mr. Scissorhands, cutting away at the ice to reveal the angel underneath. Like Michelangelo saying that “I sa...

My transposition of my novel is currently 273 pages. The maximum it should ever be is 120. Therefore it is now more than twice as long as it can be. There are currently 312 scenes of which I have written all but 8.  I am therefore 97.4% done with this part of the process. I actually think the whittlin...

Belle had a bit too much sea water yesterday, which meant that when we retired at 2am  (with a solid 88% of the scenes of the novel now screenplay written), she woke me at 4 am to go outside. Her method of doing this is to sit upright in bed and basically smile at me.  It’s a little unclear if she ne...

I can really on focus only what’s happening at DOWNTON ABBEY (and secondarily) in the world of my screenplay. I have another 30 minutes of the 1st season finale to watch and it’s a MIRACLE I can break away to do anything else. Why is this show so amazing?  [According to Wikipedia, it R...