documentary
March 8, 2010
- Ergh, it's been a tad too long since I've blogged anything on good ol' Red Room, so I'm crawling out from under my termite-infested floorboards to ring my own bell. Well, not really just my bell, but the communal bell that belongs to Peter I. Chang, John Convertino, and me--and which goes collectively by the name of TOKYO IS DREAMING.Between ragged stops and starts during my last novel (a book ...
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November 4, 2009
- Visit http://thepeepdiaries.com for complete info on the book, the documentary and more Last week, director Sally brought the film crew over the house to film a scene she’d come up with. The plan was to record me making a sandwich. No big deal for me. I’d already napped, urinated, played Scrabble, gotten drunk, wandered around half naked, made spaghetti and pretty much done ...
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July 13, 2009
- from http://thepeepdiaries.com All this documentary peeping is playing havoc with my blog peeping. We’ve been working 12 to 15 hour days, getting up early, going to bed late, and I just haven’t been able to sit down to a blog post. And it didn’t help that I accepted a last minute assignment from the Globe and Mail to review Free, the new book by Wired editor in chief Chris Anderson, who ...
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June 12, 2009
- When should the public visual record of your kid’s life start? This is a tricky question, sort of like “Does life begin at conception, at a certain point in pregnancy, or at the moment of birth”? I’m not going to touch that one with a 200 hundred foot pole. But if you want to have a permament public record of your precious little star’s life, when do you start? Do you start with the ...
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June 11, 2009
- Just walked to Ralph's - the over crowded location at 3rd and La Brea. Even on a Thursday morning at 11am people are waiting in line at the deli counter. Walking home, turning down Sycamore as I always do with it's beautiful canopy of trees and four bedroom, 2 1/4 bathroom two story apartments and bougainvillea lined balconies, I wondered how people could afford to live here. If everyone is at ...
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May 22, 2009
- http://thepeepdiaries.com Tuesday was the first official day of documentary shooting. The idea for this first day was just to show my relatively mundane boring life, pre-peep. I got E. dressed, the whole family had breakfast (actually our second breakfast since this was around 10 am and E. wakes up at precisely 6 every morning (why! why!). It was all fairly painless and, in that weird, they’re ...
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April 21, 2009
- On Friday the producers of the upcoming documentary based on my upcoming book dropped by along with a surveillance camera expert. They wandered around my house discussing the best places to put surveillance cameras. The plan is for there to be two weeks this summer when the camera streams will be live on the web for all to see. Meanwhile, I’ll be blogging and ruminating about what it’s like ...
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March 28, 2009
- MOONDANCE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 "The American Cannes" http://www.moondancefilmfestival.com Check out the Moondance website for more info! CATEGORIES, ENTRY FEE INFO, ENTRY FORM, GUIDELINES ON THE WEBSITE or at http://www.withoutabox.com/login/1240 We cordially invite screenwriters and filmmakers, playwrights, short story writers, TV writers, radio play writers ...
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February 28, 2009
- What a story for a writer!And yet, to my knowledge, it's not yet the subject of a novel, a major movie drama, or a play*. And it's been more than half a century since the curtain closed on the life in question! I'm talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose life is the subject of a 4-part, 1994 PBS ("American Experience") documentary biography my wife and I watched recently on ...
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December 31, 2008
- Waiting The alphabet as we know it in the West had an exciting trip through ancient times as it developed into the way we spell, read and learn today. The alphabet's path started in Egypt reached Palestine then spread by the sea-traveling Phoenicians who then introduced it to the Greeks.In Egypt, Palestine and Greece parents sacrifice a lot so that their children will have the ...
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