At high noon Paul and his producer, Safia, will appear before a panel of faculty to “pitch” his concept for a thesis film. Out of the twenty-five students in his program, only five will be awarded a final film with a budget of $30,000. The decisions are based on a number of criteria…quality of past … Read more
A few of my readers have mentioned that mostly they just skim my blog looking for posts about Paul’s burgeoning film career, so I thought I would put “film” in the title of this update just to make it easier. It’s been a busy and crazy week or so. The film from the clown shoot … Read more
Pics from Paul’s recent shoot…I mentioned it was about a clown, right?
At least I don’t think so…It’s very hard to tell these things on a set. People can’t tell an actor that a scene was bad, because the actor might freak out and make the next scene even worse. So I will say this…I am fairly certain that I wasn’t stellar, but I am also hopeful … Read more
Paul got the email yesterday: Congratulations!! Your script The Working Girl has been chosen as one of 10 finalists for the 2006-2007 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Award Program!Please contact us with your availability next week for a pre-production conference call with our production group. Thank you for participating in our program and we look forward to … Read more
Last night at 12:30, Paul started to take one of his “power naps” on the couch, making me promise to wake him up at 1AM to start working on his Coca Cola project that is due on Monday. I said, “Why don’t we both just go to sleep and make a pact to get up … Read more
We just had the big “Screening” weekend of the year at the Film School. Friday night, the students who are just finishing their first year, debuted their second directing projects. Twenty-five 6-minute films were shown, Paul’s among them. It was called “Porn and Protons” and was a comedy about a married couple whose attempts to … Read more
M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady In the Water seems to be one of those films that provokes people to attack or defend it from its attackers. Paul and I and a friend of his from the film school saw it over the weekend, and uniformly landed in the ‘we like it’ camp. I walked away feeling … Read more
Went to see The Devil Wears Prada the other night. Cute and enjoyable, and Meryl Streep is as good as everyone says she is…and that girl form the Princess Diaries is pleasant enough. Um…her boyfriend has a job that gets him hired as a sous-chef at the Oak Room? When does he even have time … Read more
For the past few days I’ve been dragging myself over coals on a couple of short stories like they meant everything. Not that they mean nothing. But at the same time I had my little scare…because when you are like me, everything is a little scare…constipation, a cold, an ache, an odd looking sore. So … Read more