flying morondrool

Cool blog name.

Good God! THIS is why you are anonymous???? Well, no freakin wonder!!! Producers find out your Republican and you can forget about it!

But hey! Good luck anyway!!!...;-)

I kind of hope it's the script about journalists trying to find terrorists.

That sounded kind of funny.

"I swear I will come at you with the full fury of a saber-toothed retard, a prehistoric killing machine of oversized canines and an affinity for brightly-colored mismatched sneakers" ... don't be so subdued ... don't hold back ... tell us how you really (would) feel ... /TJ

Sorry for missing the show today Ace-- hey, I was busy defending the nation from communists, you can thank me later-- but if Slublog is correct in his assessment, Bridget Johnson might have room for concern.

Sounds a lot like Albert Brooks beat that concept to the punch.

Different? Yes. Similar? Sure sounds like it.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Can't even imagine why you're not famous by now. Just hang in there a little bit longer. It's coming. :)

ace: Have you sent your script to any production companies?

But apparently someone you'd recognize working at a production company

Now I would love to know who this is. A PA we'd recognize??

Ace,

You might want to read Conversations with My Agent by Rob Long (who was one of the writers for Cheers) - very funny, but also some good insight into making it as a screen writer in Hollywood.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452277132/qid=1121824800/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-0184924-9894244

-As if an insanely prolific writer like Ace wouldn't have completely mined all the possible veins to selling out, July 19 and max.

People, do you know where Ace is coming from with integrity?
Does he have to call Vinny Falcone to ride your asses?

The man is looking to sell out- like the wind.

A pilot looks at the runway...what the FUCK are you looking at???
I'm giving you three days- A WEEK!
Put me some fucking knowledge here.

Damn if that Anka thing isn't the answer to all life's issues.

lauraw -

I'm sure you're right that Ace has sold and resold himself- in any event the book is more funny than helpful. Sort of like this moron drool blog.

PS What happened to hobgoblin? Did he annouce he was leaving?

Again, WTF is "yeahp"? Is that morontalk for "yep"?

My guess is Cedarford ate Hobgoblin.

Cannibalism is all the rage in the fatherland these days.

Bob, yeahp is the middle-america, long-hanging, suspicious cousin of yep.

PS What happened to hobgoblin?

Yeah, and where is utron?

Haven't heard from Liptstick lately either, for that matter. Do these people think that they can just drop out any time they want?

I have a cold and cutting (yet helpful) comment that I want to post in Ace's lastest whine, but I can't open that comment window - even though the number of comments keep increasing. What's going on?

If cedarfart is going to eat someone, why can't it be vonkreedon?

-As if an insanely prolific writer like Ace wouldn't have completely mined all the possible veins to selling out, July 19 and max.

I dunno. I use to work for a production company and the main complaint was that most of the scripts they were sent or brought to them sucked -- and they were right.

That last paragraph painted a most disturbing mental picture of Rosie O'Donnel with British dental work.

I will bill you later for the therapy.

Ace,

Why don't you do what many other screen writers do: submit your piece to screen writing competitions and let it get some exposure that way - many screenplays get picked up that way. It really is the best way to get in the door when you are an unknown writer.

-Industry insider

Industry,

I've done that a couple of times. I just sent it in to the Disney Fellowship contest, not because I hoped it would win, but because I hope that somewhere along the line it will get passed up the chain.

I was a quarterfinalist in the Heart of Austin competition but nothing came of that.

I'm sitting on a $300 million gross comedy.

Perhaps you should get off of it and try selling it?

Hey, thank you!

What's this crap about a comedy?

I thought you were working on "Wolverines! A Musical Celebration of Red Dawn."

It'll be huge.

See, what I really need is for someone -- let's just say some kind of "industry insider" -- to say, hey, I read your dumb blog, I can see you're some sort of chucklehead, send me your dumb script and I'll take a look-see.

Slu,

I see that more as a follow-up project. You know, after I have a big commercial success, then I'll have the liberty to pursue "projects of the heart" like Wolverines!

Well, thank goodness for that.

I can't wait to hear how you orchestrate "My Hate Keeps Me Warm." I'm thinking minor key.

No screenwriting contests. Any smuck can start one, collect entrance fees, and then do what any agent will do for you.

Contact production companies or have someone pretend they are your agent/lawyer and contact them, find out if they accept scripts, and submit them.