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Peter

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About Me

None of your business.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

YOU!

Music:

Film Scores (for writing), John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Eric Wolfgang Korngold, Bruce Broughton, David Newman, Elmer Bernstein. Varied after that: Cheesy 70's Pop. Standards. Cole Porter. Irving Berlin. Rodgers and Hammerstien. Lerner and Lowe, Jerry Herman, The Sherman Brothers. Leslie Briccuse. Anthony Newley. Nelson Riddle. Sinatra. The Beatles. Many more. FAVORITE SONG: "Something In Your Smile"

Movies:

GET COMFORTABLE:Raiders of the Lost Ark, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Original Star Wars Trilogy, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, E.T The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Empire of the Sun, It's A Wonderful Life, Singin' In The Rain, The Innocents (1961), The Wonderful World Of The Brothers Grimm, Doctor Dolittle (1967), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Blue Velvet, The Sound Of Music, Morozko (U.S. Title - "Father Frost"), Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Caddyshack, Seems Like Old Times, The Duchess and The Dirtwater Fox, Scrooge (1970 Musical Version), Tom Sawyer (1973 Musical Version), Rollercoaster, The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, The Big Picture, Sabrina (1995...Yes, 1995), Half A Sixpence, Flower Drum Song, The Little Prince, Hello, Dolly!, That's Entertainment!, 1776 (1972...hehehehe), Mary Poppins, Mad Monster Party. The Daydreamer, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 Musical Version), Lost Horizon (1974 Musical Travesty), Finian's Rainbow, Bugsy Malone, West Side Story, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Back To The Future, Waiting For Guffman, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Vertigo, and more...

Television:

H.R. Pufnstuf, Here Comes The Grump, The DoubleDeckers, The Bugaloos, Lidsville, Sigmound and the Sea Monters, Zoom!, Winky Dink, The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Happy Days, When Things Where Rotten, Match Game, Tattle Tales, The Wonderful World of Color/Disney, annual "Wizard of Oz" showing, annual riding of the Norelco razor by Santa, all of the Rankin/Bass Christmas shows ("Rudolph's Shiny New Year"...totally underrated!), The Twilight Zone, Soap!, The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, Little Rascals/Our Gang, The Three Stooges (preferably with Curly), Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (especially their skewering of "Morozko/Father Frost"), Twin Peaks, The Larry Sanders Show, Dream On, The Golden Years of Saturday Night Live (1975-1981), SCTV, Late Night With David Letterman (1982-1992), The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Siskel and Ebert, Trilogy of Terror, Bad Ronald, The Oscars, The Golden Globes, Curb Your Enthusiasm, WonkaVision.

Books:

Biographies, Autobiographies and Non-Fiction, Easy Riders Raging Bulls, Skywalking; The Life and Films of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg by Joeseph McBride, Adventures In The Screen Trade, Hype And Glory, Which Lie Did I Tell?, 101 Habits of Successful Screenwriters by Karl Iglasias, The Craft of the Screenwriter by John Brady, anything by Dr. Denis Waitley, A Christmas Carol, Harry Potter and the Overlong Ripoff of Ten Other Authors,FROM CHILDHOOD: Charlie an the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Phantom Tollbooth, Me and Caleb, Me and Caleb Again, Encyclopedia Brown

My Blog

My "CLOVERFIELD" Review

A nap and a Red Bull (would have had a Slusho if I could find one) enabled me to attend the Midnight first screening of "Cloverfield". Getting right to your questions... IS IT GOOD? It's okay. ..at b...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:09:00 PST

Tis The Season...For Industry Parties

I would rather attend a holiday party thrown by The Grinch, pre heart enlargement, than attend an industry party of any kind. Anyone who knows me knows that. Industry party definition; any gathering w...
Posted by Peter on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:53:00 PST

TALES FROM THE PIT:

As the civilized world knows, a much bigger issue than the California fires broke out this week; The Writer's Strike, or the striking of members of the Writer's Guild of America. To clarify, the peopl...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:14:00 PST

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Hush-Hush

This will be my most hinty blog, not because I delight in that sort of thing but because I'm privy (with some of you) to some secrets of the new "Indiana Jones" movie now filming and forbidden to talk...
Posted by Peter on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:37:00 PST

The Perfect 4th Of July...Movie?

You probably have a favorite Christmas movie you watch every year, perhaps with your family (Ours is "Black Christmas"...I keed). But do you have a favorite 4th of July movie? If you're like me, firew...
Posted by Peter on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:15:00 PST

My First Time: Remembering "STAR WARS" on its 30th

"Star Wars" turns thirty today, meaning it's the 30th Anniversary of when it was first released on May 25th 1977.I am of the belief that if you were not around in 1977 and didn't see it in 1977, you w...
Posted by Peter on Fri, 25 May 2007 10:51:00 PST

TALES FROM THE PIT: My 20th Anniversary of Professional Writing

This month celebrates the 20th anniversary of my being a professional screenwriter, or as much as I can pin it down. For I am counting "professional" as when I was first wrote something I was paid for...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:00:00 PST

Goofy, indeed; A Trip To Goofy's Kitchen at Disneyland

An old friend was at Disneyland with the family for a few days. This is a normal meeting place for me when people are in from out of town, since they all wind up there and I live a scant ten miles sou...
Posted by Peter on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:24:00 PST

Quick Oscar Thoughts - 2007

OSCAR 2007 What can you say about an Oscar telecast where Al Gore gets the biggest laugh of the night?This year's Oscar telecast was a strange one indeed.This is the first time in memory where I had...
Posted by Peter on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:07:00 PST

TALES FROM THE PIT: The "Finale" of the Musical

For those of you who read this blog/series of essays (does anyone?). I finished writing the musical this week. As you may recall (see previous "TFTP" blogs), the musical was born on November 1, 2003 s...
Posted by Peter on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:24:00 PST