Nancy Kovack, Forgotten Siren of the Sixties, the One That Got Away
Nancy Kovack is long retired, no need to act anymore, and firmly married to conductor Zubin Mehta. But in her day, she […]
Author: Lee Wallender
Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.
Causality Story Sequencer: Stroke-of-Genius Plot Structuring Software You Need
For fiction or scriptwriters, it’s the age-old problem of balancing the creative right-brain side of masterful prose, characters, inner thoughts, and scene […]
“The Mob” (1951): Unsung Film Noir With Stellar Cast
In some kind of dream classic film world, you would watch a movie with Broderick Crawford, Ernest Borgnine, Richard Kiley, Neville Brand, […]
Story Premise Examples: 500 Sample Story Premise/Loglines to Work From
If you cannot get your story premise pounded into solid shape, you don’t have a story. So why should you proceed? When […]
How to Build a Solid Story Premise
Get your story premise right, and the rest of the story-writing experience will go much smoother. Crafting a solid story premise is […]
Crime Up and Down at the Same Time: Meet Your New Local News – Hoodline
Local news is in shambles, no doubt about that. Hyper-local newspapers are either struggling or no longer exist. In my community, the […]
Hi, 1587 35th Avenue, San Francisco, Meet the JFK Assassination
The Belasco Theater in New York at 111 West 44th Street was built over a century ago for Broadway theater impresario David Belasco. […]
Automatic Dishwasher and Stacker Cutaway, 1957
From the engineers at Honeywell in 1957 comes this prediction that, by A.D. 2000, we will have machines under our dining room […]
Cars Will Travel in Tubes by Year 2000
The Year 2000–as it was called before 2000–is looking awfully distant with each passing year. Will it ever happen? And what I […]
To a Swell Dad
I’d kill to have someone give me a card that says, “To a Swell Dad – Handyman, You Fit the Bill.” This […]