Is it a bad thing when you give a film or television person(s) a pitch or screenplay and then you don’t hear back from them? Not always. Yes, there is the sad reality that sometimes no answer in Hollywood is your answer. On the positive side not hearing back right away can be a positive [...]

I had an incredible experience as the featured writer at the ‘Sedona International Film Festival,’ hosted by the incomparable Academy and Emmy Award winner Kathleen Glynn, producer of ‘Bowling for Columbine,’ and ‘Fahrenheit 9/11, ‘ and others. Kathleen likes the panels to be called “Filmmaker Conversations”. I paneled with her on ‘Screenwriting: From page to [...]

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU that I could teach you to be a police officer because my qualifications were how many cop shows I’ve watched on television? Every single professional police officer who HAS survived the rigors of the police academy would want to have me institutionalized and have my head examined. And just because [...]