Your script and how to find a Hollywood literary agent

May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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As time goes by I continue to receive inquiries about writing or reading a script that will save the world and change Hollywood.  Today someone asked me how to get an agent so he can get his script to Mel Gibson. Gibson's office finally replied to him after a year that they will only consider a script that comes through an agent. There are many books available on screenwriting and how to get your movie made in Hollywood. You can Google these topics, or check on Amazon. From my experience … [Read more...]

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Listening to Flannery O’Connor

July 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I was chatting with an acquaintance recently about Flannery O’Connor (1925 – 1964) when he told me about a recent find and that it is available on the Internet. In January 2012 “Deep South” online magazine  editor Erin Z. Bass wrote: “Professor of English with a focus on Southern lit and women’s studies at UL Lafayette, Dr. Mary Ann Wilson was cleaning out her office and came across an old audio reel labeled ‘Flannery O’Connor.’ It turned out to be a recording of the … [Read more...]

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Broken and Shared: Food, Dignity, and the Poor on Los Angeles’ Skid Row Book Review

December 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Broken and Shared: Food, Dignity, and the Poor on Los Angeles' Skid Row By Jeff Dietrich 418 pages, Marymount Institute Press, $29.95 If you are wandering in the 50-block area known as Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles and you ask directions to Hospitality Kitchen or where the Catholic Workers serve meals to the homeless, no one will know what you are talking about. "This place," explains Catherine Morris, the gentle Catholic worker, "is and always has been known among the people as 'The Hippie … [Read more...]

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Eat Pray Love … Alas

August 21, 2010 By 3 Comments

Let’s face it. There are some books that should never be made into movies. Eat Pray Love, by Elizabeth “Liz” Gilbert, my favorite book of 2008, is one of these. I wanted to like the film, but got an inkling it might not live up to my expectations when I saw Julia Roberts, who plays Liz in the film,  ride a bicycle along a tropical byway with what looks like a pasted-on smile. It didn’t ring true and in my heart of hearts, knew that the film might look good, but would miss the depth of … [Read more...]

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Conquest of the Useless: Reflections on the Making of FITZCARRALDO by Werner Herzog

August 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

A funny thing happened on the way to LAX last Friday. I will admit to never having seen "Fitzcarraldo". But I was thoroughly rivited by the NPR interview with the film's director-dreamer Werner Herzog  that I listened to on the way to the airport to collect Frank Frost who was arriving for the National Film Retreat: NPR: Werner Herzog Reveals Intense Private Journals (You can listen to it, which I recommend, or download a transcript). The New York Times reviewed CONQUEST OF THE USELESS: … [Read more...]

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Grace & Grotesque: Flannery O’Connor on the page and screen

July 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

  AMERICA magazine ran an excellent article on the American Catholic novelist Flannery O'Connor in their June 22, 2009 issue. Here is a link to it: Grace and Grotesque: Flannery O'Connor on the page and screen by Jon M. Sweeney. Sweeney quotes a Nigerian priest who is a writer as well: "“I’m fascinated” he said, “by her incredible understanding of the dynamics of sin and grace in the modern world. I find her work very sacramental and powerful. I’m happy, too, that she was a person … [Read more...]

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