This Savage Art » 2008 » June http://www.thissavageart.com a steady diet of obsessive cinema and screenwriting in the dark Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:11:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Copyright © This Savage Art 2010 wsperuzzi@gmail.com (This Savage Art) wsperuzzi@gmail.com (This Savage Art) http://www.thissavageart.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg This Savage Art http://www.thissavageart.com 144 144 a steady diet of obsessive cinema and screenwriting in the dark This Savage Art This Savage Art wsperuzzi@gmail.com no no First SNL With Carlin [1975] http://www.thissavageart.com/2008/06/26/first-snl-with-carlin-1975/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-snl-with-carlin-1975 http://www.thissavageart.com/2008/06/26/first-snl-with-carlin-1975/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:36:45 +0000 William Speruzzi http://www.thissavageart.com/?p=1005 A minimal wordpress theme by Jared Erickson

]]> I would fight and fight hard to stay up. I had my Saturday night ritual. Start watching Saturday Night Live at 11:30 then wrestling at midnight, switch back and forth between commercials and if my plans worked out, watch a late night horror film like the original, silent Phantom of the Opera on PBS or channel 57. So much for plans. My seven year old body ached for sleep so I rarely made it. I missed the great George Carlin kick off the first SNL back in 1975. I never got to see his irreverent brand of humor set the tone for what would be one of the longest running sketch comedy shows on television. Well, set the DVR because in memory of this great loss to comedy and in my opinion humanity, NBC will be airing a rebroadcast of that first show.

Here’s what you need to know:

Saturday Night Live – Host George Carlin with Janis Ian and Billy Preston, Saturday, June 28th 11:30 EST

This post can also be seen at Big Screen Little Screen where I’m guest blogging.

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Seven words transcript verbatim.

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]]> It’s all about story as we all know and have known. There’s no magic bullet and there’s no screenwriting book that’s going to give you the formula. A combination of life’s hard lessons learned, an instinct for what moves people and raw, unfiltered talent will always win. So let’s hand it to those out there who finally are coming around and realize everything I have just said to be the truth. Here they are:

  • Producer Mark Gill tells us how fucked the independent film world is. But hey, there’s hope.
  • Storytellers unite.
  • Bad writing sucks. Let’s try to fix that, mmmmmkay. [via THND]

That should keep you busy thinking for a while.

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]]> It’s time [it's always time] to load up your queue with everything that Hal Ashby has ever directed. While you’re doing that read this to understand why [via GreenCine.]

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Another ambitious project via David Fincher with a little help from F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Related: The cinematographer, Claudio Miranda’s site.

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