Category Archives: IN THE TRENCHES
[IN THE TRENCHES] Talking Shop with Harry Elfont
As an aspiring Hollywood hyphenate, the first network you have coming out of college (provided you even went to college), is your fellow alumni. Screenwriter and director Harry Elfont was part of that NYU network for me, and we spent … Continue reading
[IN THE TRENCHES] Do You Really Want to do This?
Everybody and their cousin has an idea for a movie or television show. Some of them have a lot (of ideas, that is, not cousins). Well, sure they do, ideas are the easy part (a dime a dozen used to … Continue reading
[THE NETWORK] The Stinky & Dirty Show
Fellow screenwriter, Guy Toubes, and I both went to NYU together. But as far as I know we never met there. We had a lot of mutual friends, though, which is how we eventually connected out in Los Angeles after we … Continue reading
[IN THE TRENCHES] Shut Up Already and Do Something
I was watching “Stranger Things” last week, when I heard the opening notes to New Order’s “Elegia” trickle in behind the mourning scene in “The Acrobat and the Flea” episode (I won’t elaborate any more on that, because, you know… … Continue reading
[IN THE TRENCHES] Industry Peers: Mortal Enemies?
Back in my first few days at NYU, all of us freshman Film & Television majors naturally gravitated toward other like-minded students, forming the inevitable cliques. This was great for hanging out, making the most of a single believable fake … Continue reading