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The Invaders Season 2
Rome Season 2
V if I can finish watching it.
Miami Vice Season 2

Wrote a half page on  the second novel.  As I  change the focus and read   Bad Business by the lae  Robert  B. Parker, I think this second novel will  improve upon the first novel which is prertty good.

Siolam- A Black Bart Western on amazon.com

So I set up a blog on a mobile device so I can keep up over the holldays.
Missed yesterday.

Today I almost missed the rest of my life.

Live for today. God will protect you and if he she doesn't write from the other side.

I’m currently reading the earth chapter in Maxine Hong Kingston’s book   The Fifth Book of Peace.

You cannot let anything stop you, whether it is no sales or a million sales of your art or books.  Currently watching the Rolling Stone’s Mick Jagger produced movie too,   Get on Up at the 1 hour 42 min mark there is a scene where James Brown and the band are  performing in Paris.  Paris the recent scene of death, yep, even with that you must move on to achieve your dreams.

What do you believe in?  In the earth chapter, Maxine exposes us to the spirit world of Caodaism.  Seems the Vietnamese vets resided in the spirit word of this and that.  You had to do what you to in Nam to survive  (my late cousin Leroy Banks Jr, my Uncle Leroy Banks Sr. played his horn in W.W.2 and my mechanic the late Tony Kennedy {his mom was from the UK})

What will you do to achieve and write your dreams?  Remember what James said work hard and its show and business.  You have to work hard to create your  art  and work even harder to sale your works, but  as Maxine has said do it all in peace.  Her first book of peace burned with her house.  The second one keeps  us going on and on.

Once I watched a documentary on the Black list and a long time ago on VHS a film Robert Deniro stared in. The theme freedom of expression verses tyranny.

Sort of like todays climate.  Different opinions with one group having lots of power.

 I want to see Trumbo based on the life of James Dalton Trumbo.  I read an article in the Sunday NY Times11815.  Hunted and Hunted.

Trumbo the author of Roman Holliday etc.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874308/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Screenwriters, authors and journalists are always on the hit list of the powerful after all with a few taps of a  keyboard one can influence a lot of people to do good things or bad things.

Most writers don’t  have an agenda, some do.

As a screenwriter, novelist and journalist my goal has always been to inform and entertain.

As an actress who recently ran for Ms. California told me the other day.

Keep writing.

You too.

Live your art.

http://www.amazon.com/Darrell-J-Banks/e/B00I33S10C/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1447944474&sr=1-1

So ten years ago when I was a dilettante of cable and had HBO I watched Rome, in parts.  Today I binge watched Rome Season 1.

Compared to a lot of dramas this six-disk set was entertaining, informative and great drama.

Produced by the BBC  and shot in Rome, it was a great 720-minute experience.  It took a day and a half to get through this library rental.

I hope that I can find Season 2; I read the Wikipedia season two recap and that season looks even better for Cleopatra is in four episodes.

I’m not sure why it took another two years to produce this series with 10 episodes but season one is spectacular featuring two heroes of the 13^th Legion who tag along with Octavius, Pompeii, Cesar and Marc Anthony.

The writing is very tight.

10/10

The title of this docu drama The Overnighters

Is well appropriate.

First, you have all the elements of the drama three wise men, a minister, and a hostile community and of course God.

With all that, you have a documentary about displaced Americans seeking work in the fracking oil fields of the West.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3263996/

Nice concept.

Drama in that a minister with a secret.  (I won’t’ tell, no pun intended) houses men and a few women in his church, house etc.

Called by God he allows offenders with a rough past into his home.

The media doesn’t like it; his neighbors don’t like it and well eventually the legacy of the west lands on everyone’s head that is in the way.

Sort of like in Siolam.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=siolam

So in honor of Nikki Finke I said would never post on deadline Hollywood again.  But I did.  Forgive me Nikki.

They posted this list and I had to comment.

 http://deadline.com/2015/11/wga-west-and-east-name-annie-hall-funniest-script-1201619667/

They have Annie Hall as number one.  Really.  I remember they use to line up for Woody Allen films but number one.

This is Spinal Tap, The Producers, Bridesmaids, Borat, Sullivan’s Travels, Rushmore, Waiting for Guffman, Office Space, The General; Moon Struck could have all been nixed from my list.

The last film was Shakespeare in Love, I just found that used at the library.  I always thought that was a drama, a romantic comedy at best.

What would you put on your list?

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