There was a building on the northside outskirts of my hometown, a typical structure for the locale, haphazardly constructed, its roof low in pitch, its exterior a beige peaked stucco with curious pink undertones, that had housed almost every type of club: biker, kicker, stripper, swinger, regular and gay. Every Texas town of five thousand […]
The Coen brothers are quite enamored with the droll Texan archetype. West Texan archetype to be exact. Case in point…pretty much the whole cast of No Country for Old Men (2007). I could go on with these quotes ad nauseum. I’m sure you could too. But this post isn’t about No Country for Old Men. […]
Titles are important. Take the action/thriller Snakes on a Plane. Screenwriter David Dalessandro shopped his screenplay Venom for five years before a big production house took a serious look. But it wasn’t until more seasoned writers Sebastian Gutierrez and John Heffernan renamed it that the ball really got rolling. Here’s what Samuel L. Jackson said […]
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