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The Perks of Research.
See No Evil.
This one’s about a kind of evolution. To be more acute, it’s about my own twisting journey. From a puppy writer to who I am today and some earth-shaking obstacles between. Follow and see if this vibrates your own tuning fork. But first, the beginning. I’d submitted a short film script to one of my [...]
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Action Prison Blues, Part 1.
With the express intent of busting out of my oh-so-comfortable action-thriller box, I’d concocted and sold this career-shifting pitch to Paramount. It was a tear-jerker of a melodrama that took place both in and outside a maximum security prison. But for that one unforgettable night I’d spent in a South Bay jail cell, I hadn’t [...]
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Rum, Guns and Cigars, Part 3.
It was an early Sunday morning and our last full day in Cuba. The Viva la Revolucion revelers of Carnival de Habana had long since packed their drunken bodies away to sleep off the thousands of gallons of brown beer they’d filtered through their collectivist livers. That winding boulevard alongside the harbor — packed a [...]
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Rum, Guns and Cigars, Part 2.
“We don’t call our dear president Castro,” said Propaganda Tony, correcting me in front of the few assembled Communist party representatives. “We call him Fidel. Just like you would call a brother because Fidel is family to all Cubans. Fidel is our big brother.” It was more of a pronouncement than a statement, I thought, [...]
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Rum, Guns and Cigars, Part 1.
I was briefly partnered in a producing agreement at Columbia/Tri-Star with Gary Foster (Sleepless in Seattle, Tin Cup), a man to whom I will forever owe a debt of gratitude for introducing me to my wife. During this short tenure, the studio asked me to write and co-produce a movie about treasure diving. I was [...]
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Tony Scott, Me, and King Ding-a-ling.
I have this love/hate relationship with research. When it’s the kind of study that involves slogging through a million pages of crap to find that one little nugget I can use, of course it’s worth it. But during the marathon swim I feel like I’m in a nightmare, cramming to deliver a paper only my [...]
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My Tailhook with a Bond Girl, Part 2.
We’d survived our death-defying, two-whiffs-then-a-bulls-eye landing aboard the naval aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Nimitz. My comrades—former Bond Chick, saucy minx, and all around gamer, Serena Scott Thomas, along with actor Jonathan Tucker and producer David Wally—regained our digestive cool in time for a quick photo-op with some of the onboard brass before being whisked below [...]
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My Tailhook with a Bond Girl, Part 1.
Saying showbiz is full of perks is like saying there are swamps full of alligators down in Florida. And by perks I’m not talking about the swag or that choice table at a Sunset Strip steak joint. I’m talking about experiences related to the job. I’ve been lucky enough to scuba dive for treasure off [...]
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The Incredibly True Story Of Die Hard 2 And The Uncashed Lottery Ticket.
Die Hard 2… Behind the Scenes I was actually hired to write DIE HARD 2 when the original DIE HARD was still in theaters. Like the original, the sequel was to be based on a novel. In DIE HARD 2’s case, the book was 58 MINUTES by Walter Wager. Days later I was parked in [...]
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Big Bad Bruce.
May 20, 2013It was our first morning at the location. The set, a neo-modern house the art department had dressed up into looking more like a comfortable fortress, would serve as central focus for the next four weeks, most of which would be long and cold nights. The geography was pretty steep, a hillside high above Malibu, [...]
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That Screenplay Thing I Do.
May 13, 2013“So whaddayou do, Doug?” It’s the usual, socially interactive question. Adults, stuck in the same mini-sphere, in this particular case it’s at a Little League team party hosted at my San Fernando Valley compound. Okay, it’s not really a compound. Nor is it a hacienda. It’s just your basic suburban domicile with a man-cave-slash-writing-lair in [...]
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Writer’s Nightmare.
May 06, 2013I’d just typed FADE OUT for the umpteenth time in my short career. The draft was neat and a tightly wound one hundred and fifteen pages of thrills and chills. It felt bulletproof and as close to perfect as anything I’d yet fashioned. Once it was bound by three brass brads and a cover page, [...]
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You’re Fired.
April 29, 2013I think I was twenty-five years old. Pretty young to have come to the conclusion that the man who’d helped me cross over the threshold into showbiz had to be shown the proverbial exit. My career was showing some lift and it was already painfully clear that the sweet old agent wasn’t going to be [...]
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A Million Dollar View.
April 22, 2013In a rare early collaboration, I co-penned a script with friend and former agent, Rick Jaffa. Though the partnership eventually collapsed under the weight of unreasonable expectation, the screenplay we wrote possessed a certain fire. It was a World War II action comedy titled Hell Bent and Back. Over six weeks, we’d channeled the best [...]
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