It’s the end of a hot July, and here’s more cool enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):
“In the first draft of the script, Kolchak was wearing Bermuda shorts, socks and brown shoes, a Hawaiian shirt and a golf cap. Apparently, somebody thought that was the uniform for a newspaperman in Las Vegas. But there was a line in there about him wanting to get back to New York, so I got this image of a New York newspaperman who had been fired in the summer of 1962 when he was wearing a seersucker suit, his straw hat, button-down Brooks Brothers shirt and reporter’s tie, and he hasn’t bought any clothes since. Well, I knew that was the summer uniform of reporters in New York of that time, so that’s how the wardrobe came about. I added the white tennis shoes, and that was Kolchak. It might have been totally at odds with what everyone else was wearing in Las Vegas, but… You need goals for character, and Kolchak’s goal is to get back to the big time.”
Excerpted quote from Darren McGavin re portraying Carl Kolchak in “The Night Stalker” from The Night Stalker Companion (1997)
The ‘Players’ – taking direction:
(a) “As a screenwriter, you understand that you’re providing a document that is gonna be turned into a film, and that is an entirely new evolution of the same story. If you want to write a script and direct it, then you get your way. But if you’re just a writer on a project, you are just a writer… to have a director come in and change your words, that’s what you signed up for.” (more…)
We’ve had geographically-based, Olympic scale games for many years. It’s time to get more concretely demographic…
Officially 1/3rd into summer, and here’s a dose of more enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):
the watch of time 
Memorable Quotes # 27
On Time:
You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to an hour.
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you can’t get more time. (more…)
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