Sitemap - 2023 - To Live and Let Die
Hunting the elusive Queho ... and a murder victim that comes back alive and well
Francis Ford Coppola's great big bowl of pasta dough
The renegade Queho murders again?
The mystery of storytelling: Julian Friedmann's TEDxEaling Talk (with transcript)
Queho's 'reign of terror' begins
"Great scripts are forged in battle..."
A time with 'Silence of the Lambs' Oscar winner Ted Tally ... and a Hot Fuzz tangent
'Young woman drowned in bathtub' - the death of Mark Twain's daughter
Rambling notes about systemic racism, then and now
The magic of Napoleon Dynamite
Willie Boy, the truth, and white man's many outrageous lies
Crowdfunding: a first-rate way to put your name and craft out there - and meet people!
Without Bill Finger, Batman would have never been Batman. Finger died broke and unknown.
It's never just 'smooth sailing' - and thank goodness for that!
The unbridled imagination of uber-cantankerous author and screenwriter Harlan Ellison
Of broken promises, the 'Trail of Tears' and the disappearance of the 'Indian Territory'
The world's first stock exchange - and Margot Robbie in the bathtub
Gore Vidal: Literary juggernaut ... and screenwriter
About the cake, the icing and the cherry
After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, everyone pitched in to help
'Malkovich's Mail' - a documentary about Hollywood dreams and realities
Raiders of the Lost Ark - a few script pages personally annotated by Harrison Ford
No Country for Old Men - from screenplay to novel to screenplay
Logline? Synopsis? Exposé? Treatment? Huh?
Kiel fratricide? Or was it the revenge of the Stewarts?
"Figure it out" - the David Mamet memo
The guilty pleasure of the Matt Helm series
Is there art in screenwriting?
Being There: Life is a state of mind
Before Las Vegas, there was Searchlight
Cabaret! The fascinating life of Jay Presson Allen, adapter extraordinaire
William Peter Blatty's masterpiece (and no, it's not The Exorcist)
From screenplay to novel: How I breathed new life into my spec scripts
The bloody tale of the 'wholesale murders' at Eldorado Canyon
Stealing allowed - Robert De Niro style
The history and contributions of Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam
What do Willy Wonka and James Bond have in common?
The "horrible crime" that was, as ever so often, blamed on a "crazy Indian"
Diving into the Golden Age of Amsterdam
An 1894 visit to Las Vegas, long before it was even a village
Batman vs Superman: A tangled screenplay history
"Take a sip, and then I'll tell you everything."
John Logan: Learn from the literary masters ... then start screenwriting
The Prophet, the Ghost Dance... and the Wounded Knee Massacre
The legendarily wronged Apache Kid (includes exclusive chapter)
The legacy of the Paiute Princess
Loglines: 25 words that can change your life