Producer to Producer – Maureen Ryan
I’ve been making my way through Producer to Producer (from the indispensable house of Michael Wiese Books) by Maureen Ryan (Man on Wire, Project Nim, many more) and while the book won’t receive any accolades for its prose, if you’re looking for a no nonsense, nuts-and-bolts tome on producing, this is an excellent resource and well worth the cover price. The Amazon.com reviews go into much more detail than I’m inclined to here but, suffice to say, with this book in hand, a producer can helm any range of production(s), from a micro-budget “local” short up...
Read MoreBook Shelf Quickie – Play it as It Lays
Feminine. Masculine. Sparse. Loaded. Terrifying. What Pinter’s silences are to theatre, Didion’s unwrittens are to the page. One of my Top 10.
Read MoreWar Against the Weak
Edwin Black’s exhaustively researched book War Against The Weak deserves all the praise its received. It traces the pseudo-scientific field of eugenics from its inception by Francis Galton–cousin of Darwin–through the groundbreaking work done at Cold Spring Harbor with the blessing of America’s leading academic and scientific minds (including Alexander Graham Bell), and funding provided by the country’s leading philanthropists and industrialists (including The Rockefeller & Carnegie Foundations, the Kellogg family, and Mary Harriman), and political support...
Read MoreFrankenstein Re-Visited
Favorites and superlatives aren’t really my style, I’ve never been able to say “____ is my favorite film,” “______ is my favorite band”–mainly because there’s a range of styles and approaches to all things that I think have their own inherent quality (e.g. I try to appreciate the genius of Bill Monroe as much as I do the genius of Q-Tip). But there are some pieces of work that I consistently rank among my Top 10 for different media, one of them being Shelley’s novel Frankenstein. A new book, Laurie Sheck’s “A Monster’s...
Read MoreBlack Hole (Charles Burns)
I’m about four years behind the curve on this one (nothing new there), but I just finished Charles Burns’ Black Hole, an excellent graphic novel that depicts teenage alienation and ennui in literal terms. Check it...
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