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LORE AND ORDER
2nd December 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Thanksgiving week is always fun. Frankly, anywhere I can get a home-cooked meal that I don't have to cook myself is something to be thankful for. (Thank you Cheydleur family).
The trick is to thoroughly prepare yourself the week before the ginormo feast of turkey and thanks, by doing as much exercise as you can possibly can. It’s all about balance, you see.Now, I’m no athlete, and... -
New York, Josh Brolin and Shoes
30th September 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
I flew to New York last week to interview dashing Josh Brolin for the blockbuster juggernaut that is Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.
Once I worked out that this was the closest I'd ever get to Barbra Streisand (she's his step-mum), my excitement levels left Earth's atmosphere, did three loops around Mars and are now probably hovering around Deep Space Nine, with no chance of getting home.I haven't been to... -
Getting a script read in Hollywood
20th July 2010 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
See that sight-seeing bus in the rather colourful picture above?
I was driving behind it a few days ago, as we approached the always busy intersection where Franklin meets Highland. Just around the corner is Hollywood Boulevard and the Kodak Theatre (home of the Oscars) and Grauman's Chinese Theatre where the fake super-heroes used to perform for the tourists (they've sadly been banned but if you're interested in seeing what you've... -
Reinvention ain’t easy
7th April 2010 | 6 comments | 1 person likes this
I recently returned from a three week trip to Europe. I hadn't been back in over a year so was due some quality time with friends and family. I also needed a few days away from my laptop as my brain had turned to mush after two years of writing without a break
Condensed to the size of a matchbox in my economy seat on the flight back to LA, I... -
Meet and tweet
1st February 2010 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
Last week, I hung out with my friend Jay D, who I met almost three years ago at Writers Boot Camp. It's funny who you stay in touch with. We've probably seen each other three times in three years – his wife thinks I'm his imaginary friend - but they recently moved to my neighbourhood so now we have lots of opportunity to play catch up.
After arranging and re-arranging the... -
Sweet times in Hollywood
9th December 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
I'm in the market these days for good news, back-handed compliments and glimpses of hope. This week I won Write On! Online's November writing challenge thus presenting me simultaneously with all three.
The idea was to dig out an old short story or film idea that had been discarded because it was, well, rubbish. I have many of these in various folders on my hard drive so I dusted off a... -
A Night on the Red Carpet
10th November 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this
Berlin is a long way from Los Angeles but I watched those giant dominoes topple live on CNN, as I pounded away on the Stairmaster at the gym this morning.
I had a little tear in my eye watching the old TV footage. What a victory for the people that was.
Twenty years is nothing in history but seems like a lifetime to me, so much has changed. Back then I was... -
The most over-dressed woman in Hollywood
2nd November 2009 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
A couple of times a week I do a circuit around Silverlake reservoir. While others run, I sort of half power walk/half amble, listening to whatever's on my iPod and checking out the cute guys.
Usually it's uneventful, most people are concentrating on cleaning up after their dogs or babies and so I weave in and out of the throng, smiling and nodding at those I feel deserve to be bathed... -
It’s Venice Beach baby!
23rd October 2009 | 2 comments | 1 person likes this
Rather like a delicate Victorian lady of comfortable means, I decided to spend some time at the beach this week in the hope that the ocean air would help clear my virus-ridden lungs.
Everyone I know is living in fear of swine flu but all I've had is a rotten cold and cough that seems to be clinging to my chest like a needy child.
A good friend of mine lets me... -
The glare of the spotlight
1st October 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this
A large chunk of people move to Hollywood to become famous (I know, this really is the blog that reveals all the trade secrets, eh?). But it's true: the valet at a.n.other Beverly Hills restaurant is an actor, the chick stacking shelves at Trader Joes is an actor, the bloke who comes to fix your boiler is an actor.
And I imagine that the girl in battered Uggs and black leggings...
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Lisa Marks
British writer Lisa Marks moved to Los Angeles two years ago to pursue her dream of 'making it' as a screen-writer in Hollywood. A few months after arriving in the States her short film, Maconie's List, won the Duke City Shootout film festival. Directing her own short was a dream come true and now her goal is to sell a feature. She can generally be found tapping away at her laptop in any number of coffee shops muttering furiously to herself. Don't worry, this is all perfectly normal.
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