- Now, I'm a screenwriter so I'm claiming artistic license. It's possible I just got ripped off by Tommy Lee Jones on a script I wrote for him last year but will have to see the new movie in question. Anyone who'd like to read it only needs to drop me a line and I'll email it to you. Jones and his merry men at William Morris asked for the screenplay and after three weeks said it was too hot. But they held on to it, I noticed. And invited me to keep sending scripts with no agent involved. That was very unusual and I thought flattering, but maybe not. I'm just revealing this to show that I am a screenwriter. Steve McQueen intended to play me in a 1975 screenplay about my adventures in Rhodesia but the ubiquitous Jewish termites, led by my lawyer/agent (Sherwin Goldstein) wrecked the project by making my character very unpleasant. They also called the terrorists "freedom fighters," which caused me to flee to the oil field to make my living. Thus began my Jewish awareness program. You'd think I'd have learned by now, especially after Joel Silver Pictures/Warner Bros. ripped off a 1994 script they asked me to write and made a TV mini-series out of it ("FREEDOM"). My excuse is: Tommy Lee Jones is a Gentile and a polo player like me!
- I'm also a Terrorist now, or the new word: insurgent. So, this essay will walk the line between art and sedition, as they all do.
- I'm thinking now that art trumps sedition, as we shall see below.
- My kids, in their mid-teens, think I'm stuck in the '50s. That's because I like to watch old movies and things such as "Rawhide," "The Rifleman" and "The Range Rider." They know that I spent my formative years in the '50s, they know I'm a cowboy who can't hardly believe how great the Hollywood stunt riders were, even if they were pretty tough on horses. And I forbid the watching of R-rated movies. So, maybe I am, in a way. In another way, I'm cutting edge.
- Have you seen the film DEATH OF A PRESIDENT?
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