5/18/12
MAXWELL ANDERSON quotation
(The story) must be a conflict, and specifically, a conflict between the forces of good and evil within a single person. - Maxwell Anderson
5/10/12
WOMEN OF MYSTERY : THREE WRITERS WHO FOREVER CHANGED DETECTIVE FICTION : SARA PARETSKY : SUE GRAFTON : MARCIA FULLER : FILM REVIEW
WOMEN OF MYSTERY : THREE WRITERS WHO FOREVER CHANGED DETECTIVE FICTION : DVD REVIEW
The three women writers (some of us prefer to just be called writers) are Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, and Marcia Fuller. The focus on this film was how the woman detective characters that these three writers have individually invented has proven to be a role model for women readers in real life. For instance, Sara Paretsky tells of a letter she got from a Japanese fan, a woman engineer still dealing with daily sexual harassment on the job.
The film also focused on testimonials from the authors on how well they "know" their invented character and how at times the fact that the character is different than they are, even nothing like them, can become an issue of separation, as if that character were a real person.
I wonder, does a writer sometimes feel obligated to design a character who is inauthentic as a result of feeling the pressure to be, say, nice, in their own real life?
Maybe because I've heard authors speak of their chaacters and have invented some of my own, I know that we must "get into the head" of our character. We must know them as we know ourselves. We ask what would she (not us) do in any situation?
NEW DAY FILMS is the source of this older DVD.
The three women writers (some of us prefer to just be called writers) are Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, and Marcia Fuller. The focus on this film was how the woman detective characters that these three writers have individually invented has proven to be a role model for women readers in real life. For instance, Sara Paretsky tells of a letter she got from a Japanese fan, a woman engineer still dealing with daily sexual harassment on the job.
The film also focused on testimonials from the authors on how well they "know" their invented character and how at times the fact that the character is different than they are, even nothing like them, can become an issue of separation, as if that character were a real person.
I wonder, does a writer sometimes feel obligated to design a character who is inauthentic as a result of feeling the pressure to be, say, nice, in their own real life?
Maybe because I've heard authors speak of their chaacters and have invented some of my own, I know that we must "get into the head" of our character. We must know them as we know ourselves. We ask what would she (not us) do in any situation?
NEW DAY FILMS is the source of this older DVD.
5/3/12
OZZY OSBOURNE : TRUST ME I'M DOCTOR OZZY : CHRISTINE TRZYNA BOOK REVIEW
Christine Trzyna Book Review:
First, let me say that I'm not a big fan of heavy metal and don't think I could identify a single song that Ozzy Osbourne ever sang or played on.
Second, let me say I'm not a big fan of Reality Television. I think you must be very very bored to watch other people living their lives instead of living yours. So I never watched a single episode of the Osbourne family reality TV show, whatever it was called.
However, any book subtitled "Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor," draws my attention.
Truly, Ozzy is an original voice and original sensibility, and this book MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD (LOL! Yeeesh!) again and again.
Besides the "way out-there "confessional tone about all the drugs and alcohol that he consumed (I'm against the abuse of substances) or which consumed him, and how he actually physically and mentally survived all that, probably by having a sense of humor, the thing that most fascinated me was his telling of having been called to supply DNA so that he could be studied as a survivor! (Truthfully!)
The format is Q AND A.
Where did he get those questions?
Apparently from readers who feel they can tell this man anything, ask him anything. Example (page 103 hardback): "Dear Doctor Ozzy: Do you think people should be allowed to rate their doctors on the Internet, like they can rate albums - or do you think the medical profession is too important to be subjected to the kind of abuse you got in 1970 for the first Black Sabbath LP?"
So while Ozzy's confessing, so are his questioners and some of his readership's problems are doozies.
TRUST ME I'M DR. OZZY is C 2011 Ozzy Osbourne
Grand Central Publishing New York
C All Rights Reserved Christine Trzyna 2012 including Internet and International Rights
First, let me say that I'm not a big fan of heavy metal and don't think I could identify a single song that Ozzy Osbourne ever sang or played on.
Second, let me say I'm not a big fan of Reality Television. I think you must be very very bored to watch other people living their lives instead of living yours. So I never watched a single episode of the Osbourne family reality TV show, whatever it was called.
However, any book subtitled "Advice from Rock's Ultimate Survivor," draws my attention.
Truly, Ozzy is an original voice and original sensibility, and this book MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD (LOL! Yeeesh!) again and again.
Besides the "way out-there "confessional tone about all the drugs and alcohol that he consumed (I'm against the abuse of substances) or which consumed him, and how he actually physically and mentally survived all that, probably by having a sense of humor, the thing that most fascinated me was his telling of having been called to supply DNA so that he could be studied as a survivor! (Truthfully!)
The format is Q AND A.
Where did he get those questions?
Apparently from readers who feel they can tell this man anything, ask him anything. Example (page 103 hardback): "Dear Doctor Ozzy: Do you think people should be allowed to rate their doctors on the Internet, like they can rate albums - or do you think the medical profession is too important to be subjected to the kind of abuse you got in 1970 for the first Black Sabbath LP?"
So while Ozzy's confessing, so are his questioners and some of his readership's problems are doozies.
TRUST ME I'M DR. OZZY is C 2011 Ozzy Osbourne
Grand Central Publishing New York
C All Rights Reserved Christine Trzyna 2012 including Internet and International Rights
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