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Julie Goes to Hollywood: Snow White and the Seven Screenwriters

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. Snow White and the Seven Screenwriters. A little known fact about Hollywood screenwriters is we don't tend to like each other much. We don't really like anybody, actually, which is why we sit alone in a room all day every day making up stories about much cooler people living in way better worlds. You see, when your mother warned you Hollywood was a scary place full of mean people,...

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Julie Goes to Hollywood: Manager & Me: A Love Story

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. Manager and Me: A Love Story. It begins like any other Hollywood romance. You, perched on a bar stool, dangling a brand new, high concept feature spec like a femme fatale with a cigarette between her lips, awaiting the flame of a passing Zippo and a memorable quip. You know very well how to play it cool —. Who'd mysteriously declined representation from some prize catch or another...

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Julie Goes to Hollywood: Dean Martin's Dentist

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. 8220;You really need to get back to writing about what you do best,” my mother called to tell me. I had no idea what she meant by this. Snark? A perpetual state of nagging disappointment even during my finest hour? War vet and retired junk dealer an ambulance came for last week. It turns out he has a serious heart condition that in all likelihood will be the thing that gets hi...

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Julie Goes to Hollywood: Diary of a Mad Screenwriter

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. Diary of a Mad Screenwriter. What would seem to most people a disturbing psychiatric diagnosis indeed is in fact the writer's version of an overall sense of well-being. Forest Whitaker. That guy.". Call me when the funding comes through," he'll sniff. Somehow convinced I'm supported by space aliens who drop little wads of cash around the garden for me to dig up on the full moo...

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Julie Goes to Hollywood: What to Do When Your Dad Becomes an Action Star

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. What to Do When Your Dad Becomes an Action Star. In the hands of, say, David Lynch. My professor's point was not only that there is no such thing as an original idea, but also that there is no such sin as thievery. Writers who don't borrow from their own lives in an effort to imbue their stories with an air of authenticity are otherwise known as hacks. Julie Goes To Hollywood.

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Julie Goes to Hollywood: My Name is Julie

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. My Name is Julie. My deeply concerned mother calls this morning to offer some "viable life options," I think is what she's calling them. It appears my parents are no longer willing to just send along the rent check without also submitting a detailed plan for my future. The Central Florida community where my parents retired a couple of years ago, is. She knows very well it doesn't ...

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Julie Goes to Hollywood: Life Imitates HBO

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. After missing her at Sundance. And during an earlier L.A. trip, I finally had lunch with the producing partner of the popular New York actress SJP. As is the general rule of thumb, she’s just as pretty as her celebrity collaborator, though maybe not as thin—but then, who is? I did a lot of yammering about my current assignment writing a picture for EN. Sex and The City. Here on mi...

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Julie Goes to Hollywood: Djulie Unchained

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. Luckily there are no rules in Hollywood, or I definitely would have broken one by telling Darren Star he should be reading my blog. I also told him I would be referring to him here only as "Mr. Bigger" which was both a bald-faced lie and not terribly clever, simultaneously breaking two more rules that don't exist in the span of six seconds, give or take. Old school Hollywood moxie.

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Julie Goes to Hollywood: The Famous Scary Superagent

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. The Famous Scary Superagent. Back in film school, I managed to land a spot in a legendary class called "The Art of the Pitch.". It's taught by a one-time Famous Scary Superagent. Now a Big Deal Producer. An Officer And A Gentleman. I’d not yet been in the room—which roughly translates as any place where two or more Alleged Hollywood Types. Afterward, however, when I went to retrie...

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Julie Goes to Hollywood: The Actress Friend Who Gave Up

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Julie Goes to Hollywood. Giddy Observations, Scandalous Confessions and A Few. More Things They Wont Tell You In Film School. The Actress Friend Who Gave Up. And had two children I’ve never seen; my sister got married and moved to San Diego. My oldest friend passed away; and the actress decided she’d had enough, moved to Houston. And landed herself The Dreaded Real Job. Maybe I should have taken all this as yet another sign that My Big Deal Hollywood Life. Meanwhile, the Actress Friend Who Gave Up. Progr...