More About Who You Know There’s a myth about breaking into Hollywood that goes like this: “It’s not what you know but who you know.” I call it a myth because if that theory was true, I’d have never been hired, nor would pretty much everybody I ever worked with,...
More About Zeke Blackstone You are now entering New Creek, Ohio, the brownest, rockiest farm community in creation, inhabited by hard men, hard women, living hard lives in a town with but one soft spot, Zeke Blackstone, a backwoods truck mechanic cursed with the soul...
More About Knowing The Future As a writer it only happened to me once, I envisioned something in the future and that vision actually came true. For other writers it happened routinely. In the eighteen-hundreds, Jules Verne predicted space travel, submarines,...
More About My Dinner With Jerzy Part One. I’m referring to the legendary Polish theatre director that few people know about unless they, 1) are bonafide theatrical experts or, 2) saw the electrifying movie “My Dinner with Andre.” In the movie two actor friends meet...
More About Another Dinner With Jerzy Part Two. Actually, there were two dinners with Jerzy. The second came two years after eating steaks together in Marian and Murray Barnett’s kitchen when the venerable Grotowski issued his resolute missive to me, “Gary, never ever...
