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is not for you to ponder. There are snakes on the plane. End perfect name of fucking story. In fact, perfect name during the two or three days that precedes my phone call with the studio, I become obsessed with the concept. Not as a movie. But as a sort of philosophy. Somnewhere in between "Cest la vie", "Whattya gonna do?" and "Shit happens" falls my new zen koan "Snakes on a Plane".WIFE: "Honey you stepped in dog poop again. "ME: "Snakes on a Plane..."DOCTOR: "Your cholesterol is 290. Perhaps perfect name you want to mix in a walk once in a while."ME: "Snakes on a Plane..."WIFE: "Honey while you were on your cholesterol walk you stepped in dog poop again."You get the picture. Now I'm not a big rewrite guy and I do not love the ambulance chasing quality to script doctoring...I have done less than many but more than some and it's been a while since I've been holier than thou about that part of the business.So I get on the phone. It's a conference call and I think maybe three people are on the phone and one's an old friend of mine and she and I do most of the talking.
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