AREA FOUR: Page 17




• INT. LANDMARK LIQUORS - NIGHT
  
• Florescent lights and low aisles. Swerve is mixing and matching different bottle of beer into one six-pack. D’Andre and one of HIS BOYS amble in, directly to the cashier, MISTER DUK (Vietnamese, elderly).
  
• D’ANDRE
  
• Yo, Long Duck Dong. It’s time.
  
• MISTER DUK
  
• No. Not today.
  
• D’ANDRE
  
• What do you mean, not today? You know this is? Do I need to get remedial with you? Explain it to you? In slow words?
  
• MISTER DUK
  
• I just say not today.
  
• Duk looks over the aisle. Swerve glances up at just the wrong time. Lets a heavy sigh go. Looks back down at his mixed six. Duk realizes he has no back up. Hits the cash register. CHA-CHING. Duk hands over a stack of bills.
  
• D’ANDRE
  
• You oughta go to the doctor. Think you had one of them Alzheimer’s seizures.
  
• D’Andre ambles out. His boy grabs a bottle of something on the way out. Swerve walks up to pay for his six-pack, starts peeling some bills out.
  
• MISTER DUK
  
• I know you. I know you’re police. Why you don't do something?
  
• Swerve’s PHONE beeps.
  
• SWERVE
  
• They’d be back in an hour. Or tomorrow.
  
• Checks his phone.
  
• SWERVE (CONT’D)
  
• And your rates would have gone up.
  
• Duk pulls out two mismatched bottles. Swerve looks sheepish, but pushes his money on Duk anyway.
  

BRAINSPACE

Now returned to the country without incident...that made the news.

Here's where my head's at...

Recently met an actor and stuntman, friend of a friend. Showed him and the friend a unique location I have access to and thus a plot was hatched, utilizing said actor and stuntman. A short film or web series with said location and utilizing his unique skills of beatdown. More on that as it develops.

Current screenplay at 45 pages. Was doing ScriptFrenzy with it, but have decided to pause at the midpoint and reevaluate some parts of it before proceeding. It defeats the point of the project, but then I don't really need ScriptFrenzy to make me write things. Besides, I need to put some focus on staffing season right now.

First meeting of the staffing season is on the calendar.

Still waiting out the season before I dig into a Good Wife spec.

Breaking a new pilot. Taking my time with it, though. It's a tricky one.

LEGEND

Still waiting for somebody to put out DVD's of this Michael Piller show starring Richard Dean Anderson and John DeLancie (as essentially Tesla).



My VHS cassettes are still holding up, but...how much longer?

BWAH. HA. HA.

SCRIPT FRENZY

I am doing it. Follow progress here.

WHY I WRITE (REASON # 1,701)

It's is my fervent wish that my writing will put words into William Shatner's mouth before either of us dies. But probably him first.

You needed to know this.

THE WEST WING RETURNS TO TV

It hurts a little to write this, so I'll just copy and paste from the press release...

Universal Media has teamed with Emmy-winning writer and producer Joel Surnow (24, Half-Hour News Hour) to bring The West Wing back to the screen in 2011.

However, in a red state twist, the new one-hour drama will focus on the administration of President Owen Harper, a midwest Republican, played by Bruce Boxleitner (Tron, Heroes). The series is planned for a prime time berth as a midseason replacement early next year.

The West Wing was created by Aaron Sorkin and originally starred Martin Sheen as President Josiah Bartlett.

Really? What the hell? Is UMS selling this to Fox News so they can get into the fictional drama business...as opposed to the crap the present as news now.

Yes, I totally be watching it, though. I loved West Wing, I like the stuff Surnow's done in the past, like La Femme Nikita and Nowhere Man, and I dig Bruce from back in the Babylon 5 days. But, is this really necessary?

Also, anyone notice his character has the same name as the guy on Torchwood?