The trailer for Flightplan had me excited about seeing the film. Sean Bean. Jodie Foster. Action in tight places. Sounds like a great thrill ride. And it was. For awhile. Flightplan gets off to a great start. Jodie Foster is Kyle Pratt (the role was originally written for a male lead, and when Foster came…
Last night I returned from Western Illinois University where I had spent the two previous days. The school was doing a production of my one-act play Lifeloop based on the short story by Orson Scott Card of the same name. D.C. Wright, a friend of mine from BYU who is a theater professor at the…
I felt my first California earthquake on Saturday night just after 10:00 p.m. Lauren had dosed off on the couch, and I was up reading. The boys were asleep of course. It was a small one, only 3.0 on the Richter scale, and hit us with a single jolt, as if a truck had hit…
I enjoy reading screenplays, but they’re so incredibly hard to come by that I don’t read nearly as many as I would like. A few studios have publishing subsidiaries, and occasionally they’ll publish a nicely bound, printed version of the script, but those are rare. (I got a copy of “Seabiscuit” and “Good Will Hunting”…
You can’t go wrong with matching shirts. Especially when they’re filled with such adorable cherubim like you see here. You can’t see it in this picture but Jake’s got a bad bruise on his left cheek. He fell and hit the coffee table yesterday. It wasn’t pretty. And nor is the bruise. Lauren and I…
Got a new freelance job today with a quick turnaround. It seems the Church is producing some more Homefront ads–but this time for the US Latin Market, so they’ll be in Spanish. Should be fun to work on. I’ve always loved the Church’s Homefront public service announcements. The series is one of–if not THE–longest running…
