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I've been looking back on my adventure in Hollywood, culling pages from my journal...  A week later, after several calls to Les the Lawyer, Warner finally cut and sent the check. It arrived and I was happy. That same day, I spoke with Kevin to ask if he wanted to see a draft of “Like Magic.” He flipped. He was surprised I had something for him already and sounded enthusiastic. So, that got sent off.
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 A few days later, after licking my wounded ego and attempting to begin a new draft, I checked in with Kevin. The dynamics of the story seem to be changing as I worked on it, but Kevin talks me through some of it; leave the “wanna-be detective” stuff; Concentrate on making the opening more “positive, less repressive for Pee-Wee” (I have no idea what this means today. I probably had little idea what it meant then). Trying to juggle “pretend detective,” “ulterior motives,” “misinformation at the start,” had me in despair. “The whole thing sucks but what can I do? I’m on pins and needles trying to write what’s in someone else’s head.”
 In March 2016, a new comedy website launched, featuring short online articles. It was The Morning Kvetch. Alas, there was no traction and the site no longer exists. So, I'm going to drag out the bits I wrote for them and post them here from time to time. So, let us present: Branding XI've been looking back on my adventure in Hollywood, culling pages from my journal...  Happy New Year! I finally check back with a journal entry on 1/8/91. I had called Kevin. No, they hadn’t forgotten me. Except they kinda did. He’d heard the notes were actually finished the Friday before Christmas, but the holidays…
 In March 2016, a new comedy website launched, featuring short online articles. It was The Morning Kvetch. Alas, there was no traction and the site no longer exists. So, I'm going to drag out the bits I wrote for them and post them here from time to time. So, let us present: Hold Your Own DoorThe gang over at TMI: Hollywood have been doing some video celebrity updates for the 'net and I've gotten some jokes included, so here's a bunch:  It would be two weeks before I wrote another entry. And that entry was to note there wasn’t anything to note. I finished “GhostWriter” and sent it off just in the nick of time, as my WGA card came. I was union. It was official. I was a professional writer. (yay). So naturally, I’m working on a script for my second public access TV show, while entering the first into the newly established Staten Island Cable Awards. Kevin had called. I missed the call but the message said it wasn’t important. It was.  Back in March 2016, a new multi-media platform was about to launch. A podcast, radio show with written articles on line to support the on-air hi jinx. It was a new comedy, The Morning Kvetch. And they needed experienced kvetchers to supply material to the website. Enter me. I had a number of rants and rant-like bits that could be re-worked to fit their site, so it seemed like a good thing. No pay but EXPOSURE! Yeah, not so much. Granted, my contributions to the site started to wane as the year progressed but I was very much surprised to find out the site no longer exists. It's just a Go Daddy placeholder denoting the domain name is available. Gone, all gone. So, I'm going to drag them out and post them here from time to time. So, let us present: Bandages
 I didn’t update my journal for 2 weeks. And that update was barely ¾ of a page. Kevin and Joel called. They both loved the script so far (again). They, however, want me to “punch up” those scene descriptions (cue ominous foreshadowing music). The plan is now to give the script to Pee-Wee with a check attached as a show of “massive support.” I promise to finish it up for the weekend. Otherwise it was a matter of doing the public access show and seeing my comedy group on “The Joe Franklin Show” doing my sketch “Abbott and Othello.”
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