I subscribed for a free month for unlimited access to Simily last week, using a coupon code generously supplied by a fellow writer here on Medium. It gave me the opportunity to delve deeply into this new writing platform and what it had to offer. Simily looked good at first…

This isn’t the picture of me at the BFI Database. It was sent to me by “John Fairfax”, who saw my posting on Twitter about my last feature film and my irritated comment about how I thought the British Film Institute had mixed me up with another (Asian, of course)…

“I’ve absolutely got to be home by six,” said Nina as she climbed into the car beside Teddy. “No problemo,” he told her. He started the engine and pulled away from the curb. In no time at all, they were on Sunset Boulevard headed east. “I hope this info Ruth…

I’m not the terrapin but I know who is. And we’ll get to him but not yet. You can probably guess who I’m talking about from the cover. Let’s start with how I found myself in the middle of this glorious time. Mostly it was because ever since I…

When Nina got home that evening she waited until she had made and enjoyed a light supper and slipped into her pajamas before phoning Teddy. She had been given a lot to think about in the last couple of days that she needed to sift through. There was the thrill…

As Bunny was entertaining special foreign visitors to Angeltown the next day, Nina went on her own to El Sereno to Esperanza’s house. …

She watched him with hopeless tenderness as he clicked shut his briefcase and put on his hat. “Good night, Mister Black,” she said, picking up her purse and steno machine bag. “Good night, Miss Dale. And thanks for coming on such short notice,” he answered. “I’ll let the agency know…

Stage 9, Paramount Studios, summer 1981. She had never worked on a real sound stage before. This was nothing like the way they did it back home with surfing movies. Everything there was practically all shot on the beach with friends, free and easy. If the day was cloudy they…

What is the connection between the SNL skit “Love Is a Dream” and cult TV classic Twin Peaks? I put that question to the so-called fans of TP twice and NOBODY got it — probably because “fans” want the goodies fed to them with a spoon and nobody wants the…