Saturday, September 1, 2018
This is another crazy story that happened along the way in our career. This was on a pilot rewrite.In 1976 there was a somewhat popular movie called MOTHER, JUGS, & SPEED about ambula…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMTuesday, August 28, 2018
scene from GOING GOING GONEI love writing plays. It’s liberating to write whatever I want, characters of any age, and no network executive insisting I make my antagonist more “likeable…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, August 20, 2018
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG does pretty much everything right. It started in England and continues on Broadway. For all the heavy “important” plays that have come and gone over the past…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMFriday, August 17, 2018
Friday Questions everybody. Come and get ‘em.Dsull leads off with a question about the five sitcoms I listed as my all-time favorites. With the exception Seinfeld, all your favorite sitco…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMThursday, August 9, 2018
I was going to do a post about Kathleen Turner’s JEWEL OF THE NILE comments but with the Motion Picture Academy drastically changing Oscar rules I thought I would address that today and sa…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMFriday, August 3, 2018
What a concept! Friday Questions actually on Friday.Jim S has a question based on a recent podcast with casting director Sheila Guthrie (if you haven’t listened you’re missing out on tw…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
When first-run movies play in theaters (you remember theaters), they’re always preceded by four or ten trailers. And the trailers are always movies geared to the same people who came to s…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
Here was an interesting question posed to me as a writer – do I mind if audiences talk back to the actors during performances of my work? It’s a cultural issue. For some cultures it…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, July 21, 2018
Memo:FROM: Christopher Nolan TO: President of Walt Disney PicturesSUBJECT: Re-boot of MARY POPPINSAfter watching the original 1964 movie once I know how we could improve this beloved chi…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, July 2, 2018
Here’s the REAL plot of caper movie, OCEAN'S EIGHT – a movie studio is trying to steal $100,000,000 from unsuspecting theatergoers.What a blatant cash grab. Award-winning actresses cas…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMThursday, June 21, 2018
Ken discusses how top comedy writers determine whether things are funny or not, and offers some helpful tips on how to make your writing and content much funnier. It’s another behind-the-s…
Linked From Ken Levine at 12:02AMMonday, June 18, 2018
When Romcoms Go BadJust back from a couple of weeks in New York, Cleveland, and Grand Rapids – the typical east coast swing. In no particular order, here are some observations and thought…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, June 11, 2018
Greetings from Gotham. Congrats to THE BAND'S VISIT, which was the big Tony musical winner last night. I saw it and thought it was the right choice.I also saw, with great a…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMFriday, June 8, 2018
FQ’s are ready. Come get ‘em while they’re hot.McAlvie starts us off. I hate it when they colorize original b&w movies, because something I can't put my finger on what gets lost.…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
As I mentioned last week, I saw SUNSET BOULEVARD recently, Billy Wilder’s classic from 1950. You would think it won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It didn’t. Another worthy f…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
I’m always in awe of those technicians who set up the acoustics for major theatres like the Disney Hall in Los Angeles. It’s such a baffling science. Sound travels in mysterious ways …
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, March 12, 2018
When you make your travel plans, try not to fly to New York during a Nor’easter. Back from Fun City, where I was really lucky to get INTO Fun City. I had a play in the ANDTheatre Compa…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, March 10, 2018
Or should I say the "old" Annie Hall? A senior center in Manhattan has done a reboot of the Woody Allen classic ANNIE HALL. I'll pause here for a moment to say this is not a…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMSunday, March 4, 2018
... than host of the Oscars?Jimmy Kimmel hosts his second Oscarcast tonight. (I will be reviewing it. Check out my podcast.) I thought he did a very good job last year, alt…
Linked From Ken Levine at 03:00PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
Devastating news that David Ogden Stiers has passed away. He was only 75. Probably best known for playing Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester on MASH he had a long distinguished…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:37PMSunday, February 25, 2018
I've got a bunch of theatre pieces being produced in March and April. Depending upon which continent you're on come see one.My short play, THE HOOK UP gets two productions. March…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, February 19, 2018
There was a recent article in the LA TIMES proclaiming that spec screenplays are now dead. For quite some time studios would buy these scripts written on speculation for goodly amounts and…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, February 10, 2018
I have a number of short plays playing in different festivals. These are generally evenings of ten-minute plays. Theatres seek submissions and I send off material. An…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
There’s nothing writers enjoy more than hearing or reading about other writers’ horror stories. It’s not schadenfreude per se (okay, maybe a little); it’s more that we all have the…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMSunday, January 28, 2018
For a TV writer or a playwright, there’s nothing like seeing your first production. After God knows how many specs, one acts, and plays that never saw the light of day, the feeling can …
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, January 20, 2018
When the musical I co-wrote was produced I was asked to submit my bio for the program. The trouble is, if I list that I am primarily a TV writer it’s like putting a big target on my …
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
The new TV trend is to do reboots of classic TV series. WILL & GRACE, X-FILES, ROSEANNE, FULL HOUSE, and others are in the works including MAD ABOUT YOU.So what about MASH? Why not? …
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, January 6, 2018
Based on a reader’s question I surveyed a number of very successful actors and actresses to learn how they memorize scripts. Their answers were all fascinating and wildly different. T…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMMonday, January 1, 2018
Happy New Year! Here are my New Year’s resolutions:Throw out my Miramax DVD's.Finally watch THIS IS US.Get ALMOST PERFECT on Netflix or Hulu.Go to the gym at least twice a week. (My gym…
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMSunday, December 10, 2017
We all talk about how great the theatre is. I'm writing for the theatre. I love it. But in the interest of fairness, I present the opposing view. From British comedienne Sara Pascoe:
Linked From Ken Levine at 09:00AMSaturday, December 2, 2017
I have two (count ‘em – TWO) ten-minute one act comedies playing this weekend off Broadway. And by off Broadway I mean the San Fernando Valley. They’re part of an evening of one-act…
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