Archive for February, 2012
The Academy Award Thank You Speech We Wish We’d Heard
by Adam Leipzig
Wow, this is amazing. I never thought I’d hold one of these!
But this award isn’t for me. It’s for you. No, not you sitting in the Defunct-Technology Theatre. For you out there, the audience.
You’re why we do this. This award is for you.
Thank you for going to the movies. You don’t need to be convinced that movies More...
Dear Cultural Weekly Readers, Help Us Save the Oak Room
by Andrea Marcovicci
Every few minutes a signature is added to a petition to save a New York treasure – the Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room, iconic venue for song and the lovers of song. Some people think it's already gone, nothing but dust and memories like Penn Station and so many other lost landmarks. But it isn't gone as yet! And there is something well worth figh More...
Whose Performance Is It Anyway?
by Barry Weiss
The Oscar Ballots are in and we all await the big day on Sunday.
But why were some accomplishments nominated in one category, while virtually the same accomplishment was ignored in two other categories? I am talking about the work of the incredible actor Andy Serkis in Rise of the Planet of the Apes and The Adventures of Tintin. Mr. Serkis c More...
Groupthink, Group Mind
by Levi Asher | Literary Kicks
What do the following scenarios have in common?
A football stadium erupts in cheers when the home team scores.
An army advances towards the enemy in a battle.
A family watches TV together.
Two people meet, fall in love, get married, stay together for life.
Twelve poker players glare at each other as the final table of a tournament begin More...
The Writer’s Meme
by Dennis Baron | The Web of Language
Re-posted with permission from The Web of Language. More...
Luis Buñuel Explains It All To You
This week the great Spanish director Luis Buñuel would have been 112 years old. His films were influential from the first (Un chien andalou) to the last (That Obscure Object of Desire), and never more haunting than the slow-motion dreams of Los Olvidados. Yet though he embraced surrealism, and his films often pry apart the seams of our normal worl More...
I Live For My Car
by Wanda Coleman
can’t let go of it. to live is to drive. to have it function smooth, flawless. to rise with morning and have it start i pray to the mechanic for heat again and air conditioning when i meet people i used to know i’m glad to see them until i remember what i’m driving and am afraid they’ll go outside and see me climb into that struggle bu More...Is Love Real? or, How Do I Get Money For My Movie?
by Adam Leipzig
This weekend I trained two workshops of creative people and entrepreneurs in the steps that get one’s best work into the world. One of the questions that came up in both workshops was, “How do I get money for my movie?”
The answer applies to every creative or innovative endeavor, where outside financing is required, and it requires a shift More...
