A Freeway Runs Through It
UNITED STATES—At 1980 Estrella Avenue I was free to pursue my screenwriting. I was free to check out “Crime and Punishment” from the library...
Carpe Diet
UNITED STATES—Since writing my own diet book, chronicling my hilarious fat-to-fit journey and culling my diet secrets, to join the towering heap of diets...
4. Home Free
UNITED STATES—She was a good-natured house, robin’s egg blue hidden in a drab, soot-muted gray, where I’d have my free room on the corner...
A Real Kick
UNITED STATES—I was flush in confidence, soon to complete a second draft of my screenplay, “The Persecuted,” on my Olivetti portable that fit snugly...
Car Washing In Malibu
UNITED STATES—Two British girls traveling in Los Angeles had met the poet Eric on a bus on his way home from the law office....
There’s A Screenwriter On My Couch
UNITED STATES—That June, I got off the Tijuana-downtown Los Angeles bus with one huge suitcase and moseyed over to the house on Nadeau Drive...
Indecision
UNITED STATES—Nothing so entraps a life in mediocrity as inability to decide. It dooms people to limbo, and nevertheless, it’s easy to see why...
Happiness Is An Empty Fridge
UNITED STATES—I totally get it when a friend said after attending a big wedding back east, lots of family and drink, “I’m in detox...
A Rendezvous With Bounty
UNITED STATES—People barely tear open a bag of potato chips and they say, “I open a bag. And once I start eating potato chips,...