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What are you Writing?
Maybe it was an interest in old movies then!- MikeKardec
- Post #309
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
I was just watching Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee -- http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/ Great line from Jerry Seinfeld: Something like, "This is how comedians think, it's not funny but this is how the creative process works -- 'When you take your clothes to the dry cleaner you can go...- MikeKardec
- Post #307
- Forum: The Reading Room
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New York, New York...
ALERT -- the New York Marathon will be the end of the first week of Nov. Unless you are going for it you'll find that it will significantly shut down your transportation options on that day ... depending on where you are staying and what you want to do. Do your research and plan well, do stuff...- MikeKardec
- Post #54
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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New York, New York...
Over eat at Keens Steak House the last vestige of Manhattan's original theater district. Their pipe collection is INSANE ... you'll know what I mean if you go there -- http://www.keens.com/ If you are further uptown Il Vagabondo is a descent Italian restaurant with a bocce ball court inside --...- MikeKardec
- Post #40
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What are you Writing?
... which might make the last shot all the more ironic! It's a great film and, like a lot of Spielberg movies it violates a lot of "rules" even as it obeys others to a cliched degree. Interestingly, it's also the polar opposite of Jaws when it comes to camera technique. Raiders is very...- MikeKardec
- Post #306
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
I knew I had this somewhere. Depression era, probably real 'bos, but something about it makes me believe it is staged.- MikeKardec
- Post #73
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you Writing?
Yeah, I agree. That's a complicated moment because Marion is there too and, ultimately, Indy doesn't really decide not to shoot, he just agonizes long enough for the Germans to get behind him ... then he has to give up. BUT ... it is completely clear to me that you are right about the...- MikeKardec
- Post #304
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
These days we can barely get by with computers. When you thing of what was accomplished with a dozen secretaries and a card file in the 1940s it boggles the mind ... but I suspect since there was such a uniform investment from the entire citizenry that a top down managerial system like we tend...- MikeKardec
- Post #71
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
My father was drafted at around 34. He had been rejected or put on some sort of pre-deferment list (I'm not quite sure of the situation without doing some research) just before 12/7 because his teeth weren't "good enough." I think that meant that the Army wasn't willing to foot his dental...- MikeKardec
- Post #53
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
Condor Field! That would ave been a bleak post in the 1940s. A lot of soldiers of various sorts were shifted through those desert training facilities but we rarely think of the instructors who were stuck there.- MikeKardec
- Post #51
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you Writing?
Good God ... get going! We're all lending our reality entangles, distant spooky action, help and best wishes.- MikeKardec
- Post #301
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
Not always, of course. Obviously, "Railroad Detectives" sometimes used their positions to satisfy seriously sadistic tendencies on what was often a completely helpless population, that's part of the lore. But even the humorous or merely competitive behavior of train crews shown in "Holding Her...- MikeKardec
- Post #49
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
I was kinda thinkin' that the conditions I mentioned began to alter severely between the time market towns started acquiring power that was competitive to the land owning nobility (obviously there were some cities that were seats of power long before others!) and say when England started to...- MikeKardec
- Post #41
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
I suspect that this was an aspect informing a great deal of European/Middle Eastern history. I'm going on the theory that for a long time the real power was the lords who were agricultural land owners and tied to their food production and the serfs they could harness for the higher powers in...- MikeKardec
- Post #35
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you Writing?
I've had a couple of wild days ... in my own solitary way: I was partway through updating my Master List of structural theories when I started feeling bad about some failings in a piece I wrote and produced as both a film and an audio drama. I knew I had under served the audience in a...- MikeKardec
- Post #299
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
I wasn't really talking about it as MacGuffin or not, just the fact that it's not a story (in my hypothesis, others can have any opinion they fancy) until you have a punchline ... a worthwhile punchline being the thing that gives you the excuse to break into the audience's life and interrupt...- MikeKardec
- Post #298
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
This may be controversial but ... A great example of avoiding the "So what?" reaction is Raiders of the Lost Ark. There's a lot of running around but little meaning, little resonance. Basically, it says nothing about anything (my opinion only ... and I love the film) but it is absolutely SAVED...- MikeKardec
- Post #296
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Happened....
King is NOTORIOUS for taking personal 'what ifs' and turning them into very inventive ideas to be explored in his fiction. If you are up on current non fiction, psychology, science, etc publishing you can easily tell what he's been reading because he's very fast at taking inspiration. I'm...- MikeKardec
- Post #401
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Men's Adventure Magazines
Ha! That's for sure. You don't have to charge as much if there's a bunch of people buying the same thing! But then again, you do have to convince a whole audience to buy your stuff and then you just wait around with fingers crossed. I always thought it would be fun to put a wrap on my truck...- MikeKardec
- Post #84
- Forum: The Golden Era
