Karen E. Simmons
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#Neurodivergent Screenwriter. Award-winning HAWKWOOD murder-mystery pilot (table-read showreel @YouTube ) & Father Brown specs @Coverfly Top 3%, #seekingUKagent
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Found out my Father Brown spec-script "The Wrong Scone" won 2nd place in the One-Hour Drama category of Scriptapalooza's (
@Scriptapalooza1
) TV Writing Competition, so that was a nice moral booster. Many thanks to
@johnburtons
for his encouraging support!🙂
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@benmekler
And they tried to tell us that we girls/women "needed" all that calcium and whatnot that was in the milk for our bones, yet it turns out a lot of that supplemental stuff is added in AFTER it comes outta Ms. Cow; we can get our calcium & other nutrients from veg and other sources.
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@speakupok
@FeelGoodPage11
Of COURSE it did! Even the BEARS are polite up there! :D (and maybe he's related to Paddington Bear, the most polite bear in the world...)
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@aedison
I had a similar experience! I was working the VIP door/list at a premiere at Paramount & while a lot of more haughty LA celebs were just blowing right past me, I looked up from my list & was surprised to him standing right next to me, politely checking in with no ego/attitude!😄
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Just found out my HAWKWOOD pilot (a comedy-murder-mystery set in the 1950’s Cotswolds) is a Quarter-Finalist in
@NetworkISA
’s “ Table-Read My Screenplay Competition!☺️Lovely news! Tho I still need a
#UKagent
to help me submit to
#producers
!🤞
#amquerying
#murdermystery
#pilot
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@ben_rosen
That's weird you should say that, I was just thinking of a similar scene for my own "morally ambiguous" character who really IS having a remorseful breakdown over what he's done, only at the sink/mirror instead; what IS it about bathrooms that inspires attacks of conscience?😁
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@onecoding1
@insufficentfund
I always preferred the old-timey character actors, too; they always looked more like "real" people w/distinct faces as opposed to all the lookalike "hotties" who like they were all made on the same assembly line! (even back then, women could be beautiful & still be distinctive)
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@inimitablepgw
I love that silly mock-posh surname so much that I gave it to my little dog, whose first name was Basil (as an homage to Fawlty Towers, of course!😁), so his full name was “Basil Bassington-Bassington”, a proper Wodehouse-y sounding big name for a little dog!😄
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Can anyone see this post? I just got a weird red-flag in my Notifications saying my account has been restricted for “spam” and/or “platform manipulation”(?!) even tho I’ve NEVER done like that or anything offensive worth reporting for that matter! And it wiped out my followers!😧
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@awfulfawaffle
@fisackerly
Me, neither! They must’ve just put it up fairly recently! That’s so great that they’re honoring Kevin Conroy like that, though, with those flowers!
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@ClassicShowbiz
Good for him! Moe of the 3 Stooges did something similar when they did a show somewhere down South; the "law"at the time said black men couldn't walk on the same side of the street as white folk, but Moe said screw that & walked alongside an elderly black man just to show them!😁
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Found out my 6th Father Brown spec, “The Double-Minded Man” is a Finalist in the
@Scriptapalooza1
2023 TV Writing Comp! If anyone’s interested in reading it, it’s posted
@Coverfly
w/my other award-winning FB specs (including “The Wrong Scone”, which won last yr) & Hawkwood pilot
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Just found out one of my tv specs was picked to be on the new Stunt List! I was asked not to reveal which one yet til the list is officially released, but I still wanted to share this hint of good news since that’s been in such short supply lately that I really needed it!☺️🙏🎉
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Found out my light-comedy murder-mystery pilot (set in 1950’s UK) “Hawkwood” is a Quarter-Finalist
@FilmmaticNews
Drama Screenplay Awards via
@Coverfly
!
#amquerying
#UKagents
so I can submit this as a calling-card to the show prod along w/my portfolio of 6
#FatherBrown
specs!
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@RegalPastry
@benmekler
My hub & I are both vegan; when he went to visit his "old-school" Italian dad in N.Y., his dad had bought him real-meat cold-cuts and asked my husband "What, cold-cuts aren't vegan?" :D Different generation, that's for sure!
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Anyone who knows me can guess that this is one of my fave episodes of Frasier, the one where Richard E. Grant, Robbie Coltrane & Anthony LaPaglia all guest-starring at the same time to play Daphne’s rowdy, perpetually-plastered brothers!😄
#Frasier
#classicfarce
@RichardEGrant
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My 6th
#FatherBrown
spec, “The Double-Minded Man”, was selected as Top Finalist in the One-Hour Drama category
@Scriptapalooza1
2023 TV Writing Competition! This spec & my other 6 award-winning Father Brown specs & Hawkwood pilot are all
@Coverfly
#amquerying
#UKagent
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@spaceagefilms
Yay! Their "Jeeves & Wooster" series is still one of my favourite series of all time that I could watch again and again (not to mention their work together on "A Bit of Fry & Laurie" and in Blackadder...). Brilliantly funny chemistry together!
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I always loved the great twist in Galaxy Quest of how Alan Rickman’s loathed catchphrase which had been so funny earlier in the film was now delivered w/such genuine pathos in this scene, like he finally understood the humanising “motivation” of his character when it hit home!
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@Stan_And_Ollie
My husband & I LOVED the "Stan and Ollie" film with Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, but we were SO disappointed that it didn't even get nominated for any Oscars; Reilly SHOULD'VE at least been nominated for his sweet, poignant portrayal as Babe (and deserved to even win, too)
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Found out my 4th
#fatherbrown
spec "The Belle of the Bonfire" (which also happens to be my fave one) is a Finalist in
@Scriptapalooza1
's TV Writing Comp! Now I just need to finish my pilot & get an agent to help me submit to the show!
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
DM for reads!
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My Hawkwood pilot advanced to Semi-Finalist in ISA’s Table-Read My Screenplay Comp! Even tho I had a table-read at Spotlight in Oct (& our talented cast did a great job w/it!) I wasn’t able to get any
#UKagents
to come watch, so maybe another one will do the trick!🤞
#amquerying
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Found out my Hawkwood pilot (the one I had a table-read for in London recently w/a funny & talented cast who brought it to life!) went up in
@Coverfly
ranking thanks to being a Finalist in the LA International Screenplay Awards! Available for download there or DM me!
#amquerying
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@Dalbodog
I read about this in the Stooges’ bios that I read, and thought that was so cool, since he was already my favourite for being such a natural comic-genius; then it turned out he had a kind heart for animals, too! (So did Harpo Marx, he also rescued/adopted a lot of animals!☺️👍)
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My 7th
#FatherBrown
spec, “The Billingsgate Pheasant” is a Semi-Finalist in
@Scriptapalooza1
2023 TV-Writing Comp! (my 2nd FB spec won the drama category in ‘21 & my other specs also placed) but I still need a UK agent so I can submit these specs & my Hawkwood pilot to UK prod!🤞
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@palmerrachelc
I agree, you can definitely improve ideas by bouncing them off one another - look at the writer’s rooms of classic shows that produced incredibly high-quality episodes- that’s why those shows are considered classics!
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So excited about getting the footage from my Hawkwood pilot table-read that we did back in October @ Spotlight offices!
@RyanKirwanFilms
tells me it won't be long now! Watch this space, folks!☺️
#pilot
#1950s
#Cotswolds
#comedy
#MurderMystery
#writer
#amquerying
#UKagents
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@twizlette_
@adamfare1996
Yeah, same here 4-5 a.m. is usually around the time I finally pass out too once my racing brain finally usually hits its limit! (In fact, it’s 4 a.m. now!)
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@realsarahpolley
Also when actors do self-tape auditions at home they expect them to have the lighting- that's right the LIGHTING- absolutely bloody perfect, the BACKGROUND has to be "neutral", etc., etc, The actors aren't union crew paid to build a set, they're just reading LINES for God's sake!
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I can’t lose Twitter since this is how I connected w/other creatives who’ve become my friends/supporters of my writing over in the UK (where I’ve fit in better). As a shy ND w/no friends in LA, it’s my only social-life til I can finally move to the UK on a permanent basis!🤞
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@RegalPastry
@benmekler
Funny! I loved the episode when they first made Lisa a vegetarian, back in the days before veganism was a thing; wasn't there a line where Homer sarcastically berates Lisa for claiming that pork, bacon and ham all come from the same "magical animal"? Or was that a different ep.?
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YayI JUST FINALLY FINISHED my original pilot spec that I need to submit to the FB prod b4 they can look at my actual specs for the show! Now I can finally get some SLEEP & get back to writing even more FB specs, since I came up w/2 MORE ideas for it while working on this pilot!😁
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Go see
#Wonka
if you haven’t seen it yet, guys! It’s made by the same team that did the Paddington films (still 2 of my all-time faves), so of course it’s funny, sweet & moving (& not at all creepy like the previous remake!😄) & has an amazing cast & gorgeous production values!😍
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It’s finally ready, the showreel of my HAWKWOOD pilot table-read
@Spotlight
last Oct! (Thanks to editing-wiz
@SomeAreDead
who’s also in this as shouty Major Lyon!😁Fab cast all around!🔥) Have a 👀
#UKagents
#producers
#tv
#pilot
#comedy
#MurderMystery
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@popeguilty
@ben_rosen
That's a good way of looking at it, too! And you're also not trying to keep up any pretenses of public behaviour, it really is just you alone w/your thoughts in the one place you can let your guard down w/o people seeing you!
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@paulkleinyoo
@ZProductionz
One of my best Hollywood memories is getting to see Statler & Waldorf pop up in the balcony of the Disney theatre before the premiere of the first Muppet movie reboot a few years back to do a couple of good funny heckles. They were always two of my favourite Muppets!
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Some good news to cheer me up on my birthday: my pilot ep of "Hawkwood" ("Salted with Fire") was selected as a semi-finalist by Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards via ! Still
#amquerying
for rep to submit this & my Father Brown specs to the show!
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I’ll never be able to watch this scene without crying. One of the most poignant endings of any tv show (made even more powerful & heartbreaking by the fact that it was one of the funniest sitcoms ever up to that point!)
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@DanielleNicki
As unoriginal as it sounds, I always find videos of adorable animals making happy chomping sounds as they blissfully eat their vittles to be inexplicably soothing! (like that one of the tiny orphaned baby fox diving into his bowl of food that was just posted today!🥰🦊)
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Nice surprise in the mail today: a piece I wrote for my comic hub (“First Comedian on Mars”) was reprinted in this new issue of MAD magazine (was 1st published in their Oct. 2019 issue), which means I guess they liked it enough to include it in this new best-of compilation!☺️🙏
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Me & the late, great Basil Basington during lockdown!❤️(he passed on very unexpectedly later on that year!😔) I miss him! He was such a sweetheart with everyone! (as well as being a cute little Muppet-face!🥰🐶)
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Pic of my dog after paramedics left on Fri (after I’d twisted my ankle & hit my head falling on the stairs!😵💫) & they told me to stay OFF my feet/keep my foot iced; she wasn’t checking on me out of concern but b/c she wanted me to get up & get her treats!🤦🏻♀️The ANTI-Service Dog!😄
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One of my fave bits in Modern Family!😄 Nathan Lane was so funny on this show as Pepper - I can’t believe that he never won a Guest-Emmy for that recurring role!
#ModernFamily
#NathanLane
#comedy
#farce
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@SuaveBry
@MatthewACherry
Yeah, Phil’s complete cluelessness was always funny!🤣On a related note, did you ever see the episode of Finding Your Roots where Ty Burrell found out he’s descended from a former-slave woman who became a homesteading pioneer out west all on her own? Cool story!
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I just submitted my new pilot, "Hawkwood" ("Salted with Fire") to Los Angeles Television, Script and Film Festival via ! -
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Thanks so much for all the kind birthday wishes, everyone!☺️🙏 It’s much appreciated!❤️
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@BookwormSairs
@michaelsheen
He would make a great Doctor, wouldn't he? And that would be a funny kind of synchronicity, both Crowley AND Aziraphale having played the Doctor! Though I think Michael's Doctor would probably be less cheeky and a bit more roaringly good-natured Welshman! 🙂
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Found out my Hawkwood pilot “Salted with Fire” was just selected by Best Script Award - London via ! Still need a
#UKagent
to get it in the door w/the
#BBC
prods, tho! Hopefully the showreel of the table-read will grab their attention!🤞
#amquerying
#pilot
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Honoured to be an official selection for
#STUNTLIST2024
with my
#ModernFamily
spec, “Men of Uncertain Ages”! (While Manny plans his 15th birthday Quinceañera, Phil decides to make a really “rad” video-will after being inspired by seeing Jay make his own!😁) Link to script in🧵!
Lights. Camera. RADNESS—
#STUNTLIST2024
showcases a fierce roster of talent, featuring legacy sequels, biopics, TV specs & crossovers from both emerging & pro writers, including 2 legendary guests. We’re humbled & honored to share these voices.
Teasers, details & links below 👇🏻
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So, the hub brought me back a little “souvenir”from his latest show road-trip! 🤨 It’s really knocked the seven bells out of me, too, so I’m trying to stay offline as much as possible & rest up; so apologies if I don’t respond/post as much as usual for a bit til I recover more!🤒
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@ChaseMit
And ironically even tho the Green Arrow was one of my fave DC characters in the comic books, he was always one of my LEAST fave characters in the CW/DC shows, since there was something about this guy that rubbed me the wrong way; now I know my gut instinct about him was right!😄
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@analog_dave
@bimbotoad
I agree, I always thought they were both great in those roles, and considering that their co-stars were essentially pieces of felt, they really brought a lot of humour & genuine pathos to those characters! Made the suspension of disbelief even easier than some all-human casts!😄
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@DMinghella
It's bad here in the U.S.,too, people putting THEIR individual "rights" above the health & welfare of society as a whole; We all got vaccines as children w/no problems & as a result we no longer suffer from polio, smallpox, etc. So why all of a sudden this sudden reluctance?
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I’m honoured to say that one of my tv-specs was chosen for this year’s
@TheStuntList
! Since it’s only being released to industry VIPs today, I still have to wait til the wider release to say which one, but I hope you guys will check it out when it finally has its premiere!☺️🙏🎭
Y’all…
This stunt list season 3 fitna blow y’alls minds. Tons of dope ink. Legendary special guests. Rad artwork. Boosting dope writers. It’s a ton of wrk, but we love it. Showcase headed to our industry VIPs this Monday ⚡️
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Nooo..! Not Dame Edna!😭 I’m as gutted as when we lost Bernard Cribbins! R.I.P. to another beloved entertainer!😞
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My 4th Father Brown spec, "The Belle of the Bonfire" is a top Finalist in the
@Scriptapalooza1
TV writing comp (it also happens to be my fave of the 5 FB specs I've written so far!) All 5 specs are posted on
@Coverfly
&
@ScriptRev
for download
#amquerying
#WritingCommunity
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Today’s my last day/night in the UK before I have to fly back to LA tomorrow!😭I’m going to miss it since this is my happy place where my Brit-soul belongs.♥️ (& unfortunately I never heard back from any of the UK agents/producers who I queried for a meeting while I was here!😔)
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@pitchblacksteed
Found this mask online during lockdown!😁 I kept it as a keepsake of course even tho I’ve thrown most of my other masks away!
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Tonight’s light-entertainment for a brief escape from the brain-baking oven-heat of the brutal LA summer:
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This picture of David Niven just happens to perfectly fit the image I had in mind of the villain for my second
#Hawkwood
spec-script! (“The Long Shadows”)😁
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Still headachy from Cov. bout last wk (FINALLY tested neg. this wk!) but made myself go to a bday party last nite since I’ve been feeling so isolated lately! Glad I did since everyone was SO nice & genuinely interested in talking to me about my writing! So NOT an LA/Biz party!😁
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Off to Whole Foods, since I have nothing better to do on a Saturday night & slowly going stir-crazy (not that I’ll get much interesting conversation at the grocery store, but at least I’ll get a few nice treats for myself!🤷🏻♀️)
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@MeatballNonner
@rootsworks
@fortresscrow
@SmatthewAF
@rosesonhergrave
Played by the great character actor John Colicos, who also played Baltar on the original Battlestar Galactica! I was so glad they brought his character from the original Trek back for this - what a nice homage for hm!
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Good way to spend a Saturday afternoon - watching one of my favourite classic comedies on the telly!☺️👍
#DirtyRottenScoundrels
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My new light-comedy Brit murder-mystery pilot, "Hawkwood" has advanced to the semi-finals of Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
@FilmFreeway
; also posted on
@Coverfly
&
@ScriptRev
w/my 5
#FatherBrown
specs (Hawkwood is the reformed charming villain from those specs!😁)
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@jeenabloom
@JenKirkman
I always got a definite creep vibe from him whenever I've seen him in person; he "checked me out" once as I was passing by him & it made my skin crawl (shudder). And yeah, his thin-skinned smarm on the show is unbearable. He never brings real experts on who can challenge him!
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I just submitted "Hawkwood: "Salted with Fire"" to Oxford Script Awards via ! -
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@CarlosVuelo
@Variety
That’s what I was thinking, too!😁With all the alt-universe/non-canon films they do nowadays, Brosnan could play an older Bond who comes out of retirement for one last mission; it’d be nice to see a return to a “fun” lighter Bond after the so-serious/grim tone of the last films.
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Watching “Arsenic & Old Lace”, one of my old-timey Halloween movies! (along w/“The Ghost & Mr. Chicken” & “Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein”)
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As much as I love David Suchet’s Poirot overall, this 1974 film version of Murder on the Orient Express is still my favourite version of this story; incredible cast & glamorous production values!
#AgathaChristie
#Poirot
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#1stPageFriday
“The Dark Lantern”, my 1st
#FatherBrown
spec, which introduced Inspector Hawkwood, who was fun enough to put in his own pilot which I had the table-read
@SpotlightUK
in Oct. w/a great cast! Hope to have a 2nd one when I finish the 2nd ep spec, “The Long Shadows”!🤞
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Hey UK pals, I’m doing a table-read on 11th Oct. for my Hawkwood pilot-spec at Spotlight & I’d love to invite some of my lovely readers/supporters to come watch; if you’re interested, let me know so I can let the Spotlight folks know approx. how many folks we’re expecting!🙂🎭
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I just submitted "Hawkwood: "Salted with Fire"" to Palm Springs Diversity Screenplay Contest via ! -
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My award-winning Hawkwood pilot & Father Brown specs still strong
@Coverfly
: new Semi-Finalist for my 6th one, The Double-Minded Man, bumped it to Top 10%, The Wrong Scone is Top 6%, The Belle of the Bonfire, Top 15%, Hawkwood Top 30%; available to download!
#amquerying
#UKagents
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Trying to finish 7th Father Brown spec & work on Hawkwood ep
#2
(want to do a table-read for it asap, get some agents/prods to come to it, hopefully after I send out the showreel from the 1st one); meanwhile if anyone want to read my 6th FB “The Double-Minded Man” let me know!
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Got flowers to cheer myself up a bit (latest setback: Mac update mucked up Final Draft just when I was close to finally finishing Hawkwood 2; wanted to do a table-read b4 the holidays!🤦🏻♀️More delays while it’s fixed!) they’re pretty but always feel weird buying flowers for myself!
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Just rewatched the 1978 version of Evil Under the Sun; great cast (including Maggie Smith & Diana Rigg) but to me, Peter Ustinov is to Poirot what Adam West was to Batman - goofy & entertaining but not as true & perfect to the character as David Suchet was (still my fave Poirot!)
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#ThirdPageThursday
3rd page of HAWKWOOD, my award-winning comedy-murder-mystery
#pilot
set in 1950’s Cotswolds that I had a table-read for
@SpotlightUK
in Oct w/a very talented cast of UK actors! The showreel from it should be ready soon to send out to
#UKagents
&
#producers
🤞
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@Cynthia95001250
Yeah, I’ve always hated that word “nag” since it just deflects the responsibility from the person who’s actually avoiding it; I tell my hub that I wouldn’t have to ASK him repeatedly to do things if he just DID it the first half-dozen times that I POLITELY asked..!😄🙄🤦🏻♀️
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“Hello? Cancel the state funeral, tell the king to stop blubbing, Flash is not dead! I simply ran out of juice! And before five hundred girls all go 'oh, what's the point in living any more?' I'm talking about petrol! Woof!”😄
#RememberingRik
#Flashheart
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Saw this the other day on Pinterest; this would be a perfect photo for my detective Hawkwood, don’t you think, guys?😁 Just the right atmospheric touch, considering his character!😉
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My Hawkwood pilot (“Salted with Fire”), a comedy-murder-mystery, that I had a fun table-read for
@Spotlight
in Oct. (showreel should be ready soon to send to agents/prod); working on ep. 2 now (“The Long Shadows”) & hope to go back for another table-read!
#amquerying
#UKagents
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To paraphrase Mrs M, here's my "award-winning" 2nd
#Fatherbrown
spec, "The Wrong Scone", which is in
@Coverfly
's Top 3% (won
@Scriptapalooza1
's TV writing comp last yr), available for download there (along w/my other 4 specs for the show) & also thru
@ScriptRev
;
#amquerying
#ASD
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There’s probably more books in ONE floor of the 6-floor Waterstones at Piccadilly than there is in the whole of LA!😍(what few bookshops LA has left, that is!😒) & the customers are actually READING the books instead of just using it as a place to sit on their laptops all day!😄
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@grootled
@k8_lister
I agree! I loved Caine in this! He should’ve at least been nominated for this, but I’m sure it wasn’t taken seriously as a dramatic role since his co-stars were Muppets! (But even they were good “actors”- look at the pathos & humour they could get from these mere felt objects!)
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@the_real_TFB
@russburlingame
Yes! I was just about to mention that Futurama bit, too! I can't even THINK about that heartbreakingly-sad montage of Seymour faithfully waiting for years for Fry to come home without crying my eyes out! 😢
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