TRUTH UNITES... AND DIVIDES SAID:
“That's where the conspiracy theorist merely scales back down the magnitude a bit so that s/he can still proceed forward.”
Sorry, TUAD, but you’d make a lousy screenwriter. You’re leaving out all the fun parts. Surely you know by now how the story goes.
A young investigative reporter for the Washington Post makes a clandestine appointment with a secret gov’t informant to meet him at E. Potomac Park around midnight. The informant has incontrovertible evidence that George Bush staged 9/11 in exchange for a T206 Honus Wagner baseball card from the private collection of Philippine de Rothschild.
When the reporter arrives on the scene, the gov’t informant has a bullethole in his left temple.
The reporter rushes back to his car and tries to make his getaway, but he’s driven off the road by men in black with earpieces. He’s bound, blindfolded, sedated, and thrown into the back of a van with a gov’t plates.
Hours later, he wakes up in a 5 x 5 cell at GITMO. And that’s the good news.
Philippine de Rothschild! I knew it!
ReplyDelete...and meanwhile, at his spot in Central Park, Dick Cavett is just waking up, keeping his eternal vigil in sight of Greta Garbo's apartment; an apartment which is now inhabited by an even more mysterious presence...
ReplyDelete"Sorry, TUAD, but you’d make a lousy screenwriter."
ReplyDeleteLifts double-chin up after weeping bitterly at the dagger thrust into his imagined screenwriter's heart. Now proceeding to burn up my comedic screenplay that was loaded with such brilliant wit that it was going to reduce Neil Simon's jealousy into a blubbering facsimile of Pauly Shore.
I'm also trashing my pilot episode of the conservative version of "The West Wing". In my screenplay President Bartlett (Martin Sheen) is groveling in abject humiliation when his smarter and superior twin brother Steve (who's a conservative) demonstrates the gaping flaw in the theory that Bartlett used to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Steve's brilliance reduces the usually twittering West Wing staff into speechless, stupefied, mouth-breathers alongside Martin Sheen.
I'm throwing that in the trash. Goodbye.
"You’re leaving out all the fun parts."
Alright, alright. I'll put in the gratuitous sex scenes, the obligatory car chases, and the stunt man explosions to draw in the Young Reformed consumer segment.
P.S. On a serious note, I do think that you can develop the Estelle and Vivienne vignette into something that can be produced for the stage.
...and meanwhile, at his spot in Central Park, Dick Cavett is just waking up, keeping his eternal vigil in sight of Greta Garbo's apartment; an apartment which is now inhabited by an even more mysterious presence...
ReplyDeleteMenu:
Press 1 for Sophia Loren
Press 2 for Elizabeth Taylor
Press 3 for Michael Jackson
Press 4 for the George Harrison
"This is bad, man, this is really bad."
What happens in Thailand stays in Thailand.
You've taken it into cyberpunk, methinks.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite? Clockpunk.
Greta Garbo used to visit Switzerland!