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Lauri

Life is short. Talk fast.

About Me

I'm a screenwriter and film producer searching for truth in the land of make-believe - Hollywood, CA.


NOW PLAYING

FooL4LuV (Fool's Errand Films/Kostov Films)

City Of Angels Film Festival - New Filmmakers Showcase Official Selection168 Film Festival Nominee - Best Comedy, Best Actor, Best Sound DesignFeaturing "Long Way Home" by NovalisLove Hurts. Just Ask Matt Sinclair

Plus...

Jaded (Dos Negros Entertainment), Conspiracy (Smallfire Productions), Flutter (Azusa Films), A Radioland Christmas (world premiere, Taproot Theatre Company)

COMING SOON

Revolution Of Hope (Fool's Errand Films/Kidstown Productions - October 2007)

250,000 Orphans...Three Unforgettable Stories...One Revolutionary Hope

Plus...

FUEL (Series - Willow Creek Productions), Saturation (Fool's Errand Films/Cricket Films - Glenville Film Project)

IN DEVELOPMENT

Progressive Chain Bowling (Thesis Films), Forget Me Not (Fool's Errand Films/Kostov Films), Nowhere Montana (Kostov Films)

QUOTABLE

God created man because he loves stories. - Elie WieselThe difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between 'lightning' and 'lightning bug'. - Mark TwainLife is more important than show business. - Garry MarshallIf a fat Republican can go to heaven, so can a gay Democrat. - C. A. RileyTake care of the luxuries. The necessities will take care of themselves. - Dorothy ParkerIf something is not worth doing, it's not worth doing well. - Garry DeWeeseDare to disturb the universe. - Madeline L'Engle

WHAT REALLY MATTERS

Act One, Inc.
Art Of Elysium
Compassion International
Feminists For Life
Hollywood Entertainment Alliance
International Justice Mission
Invisible Children
Kidstown International
The ONE Campaign
(RED)
Side By Side
WeCan

And coming soon - Give Hope - socially conscious give cards for all occasions

Do something. Now.


RIGHT THIS MINUTE, I'M LOVING...

1,500 Dancing Filipino Inmates (Thrilling!)


My overworked TIVO HD

(Worth. Every. Penny.)


The Brave, The Bald, and The Beautiful. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month!


♥ This super cute layout is from iloveyourspace.com ♥

My Interests

Film and television, literature, history, social justice issues, travel, renovation and interior design, health and nutrition, pilates, people watching, laughing, dark chocolate, winning, sleep

I'd like to meet:


World changers, dragon slayers



Music:

Artists You Know: U2, Caedmon's Call, Norah Jones, John Mayer, Sarah MacLachlan, Maroon 5, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Buble, Diana Krall, Marc Cohn, Kelly Clarkson (Admit it. You like her, too. You know you do.)

Artists You Should Know: Novalis , Mortimer , Katie Freeze/The Hope , Jonny Lang , Leo Partible , Jim Dyar , Hardline Drive , Amy Evans

Movies:

Current Favorites: Once, Harry Potter V, Little Miss Sunshine, Stranger Than Fiction, Blood Diamond

All Time Favorites: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shawshank Redemption, Age of Innocence, Moulin Rouge, The Incredibles, State and Main, A Simple Plan, Raising Arizona, The Usual Suspects, Best In Show, Pieces Of April, Love Actually, Oceans 11, Notting Hill, The Princess Bride, Jerry Maguire, Broadcast News, Forrest Gump, On The Waterfront, To Kill A Mockingbird, Gone With The Wind, When Harry Met Sally, Joe Vs. The Volcano, The Breakfast Club, Say Anything, Pretty In Pink, Footloose, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders Of The Lost Ark

Truly Craptastic: Xanadu, The Apple, Manos: The Hands of Fate, Spice World, The Pirate Movie, From Justin To Kelly

Television:

Current Favorites: The Office, Friday Night Lights, Pushing Daisies, Ugly Betty, Battlestar Galactica, Brothers and Sisters, Heroes, LOST, Flight Of The Conchords

Dearly Departed/Major Formative Influences: Gilmore Girls, Arrested Development, Alias, West Wing, Joan of Arcadia, Firefly, Seinfeld, Cheers, Family Ties, Cosby, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Little House on the Prairie, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, The Monkees, Scooby Doo

Books:

Now: Telling The Truth (Buechner), Walking On Water (L'Engle), Through Painted Deserts (Miller), Which Lie Did I Tell? (Goldman), Sacred Romance (Eldredge), Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows (Rowling), Through A Screen Darkly (Overstreet), anything by C.S. Lewis, Flannery O'Conner, Phillip Yancey, Shakespeare, and the Bronte sisters

Forever: Charlotte's Web, Little Women, Bridge to Terabithia, Wuthering Heights, To Kill A Mockingbird, Screwtape Letters, The Harry Potter Series

Heroes:

My husband, Thom... the Riley family ... Tom Shadyac ... Amy Sherman-Palladino... Garry Marshall...artists, missionaries, and teachers...adoptive and foster parents... adventurers...pioneers... survivors...whoever invented TIVO

My Blog

24-7-365

This just in - September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.Yes, I know it's October. And I'm right on time. (OK, OK - I meant to do this October 1st, but I'm just a few days late, which -...
Posted by Lauri on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:01:00 PST

Fat Emmy, Capitol Hill, and the Best of the Worst Fall TV Season Disasters

It's September! We made it! The weather is fabulous, the Emmys are over (kudos to America Ferrera, but what was UP with the staging and the disco ball?!?), and at long last, the Fall TV season is up...
Posted by Lauri on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:19:00 PST

Radio Sermons, Aging Dancers, And Lilies Of The Field

This weekend, I had the wholly unexpected privilege of listening to the best sermon I've heard in at least the last 18 months - one that's quite possibly on my top ten lifetime list. I wasn't in a ch...
Posted by Lauri on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:58:00 PST

National Failure Day - And Some Near Misses From The Fall TV Season

File this under "fun facts" - or "Yet Another Reason I Hate August" - August 15th was National Failure Day.The computer system at our non-profit arts organization celebrated by committing suicide. Te...
Posted by Lauri on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:39:00 PST

The Truth About My Job - And Some Inside Scoop

An interviewer recently asked me what I love most about my job. I told her I loved the creative process, the way I feel when I finish a script or hear an audience respond to something I wrote, and th...
Posted by Lauri on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:59:00 PST

Disturbed (a.k.a., "The Reinforcements")

The competition in the Hollywood writers' market got a lot tougher today - and I couldn't be happier about it.Twenty-eight aspiring screenwriters graduated from the Act One program this past weekend. ...
Posted by Lauri on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:35:00 PST

I Scream, You Scream...

Here's a fun summer statistic (courtesy of Rob Bell) -Experts in the fields of sociology and economics agree that "extreme poverty" (defined as lack of access to food, water, shelter, and medicine) ca...
Posted by Lauri on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:10:00 PST

Once In A While...

Once in a while, a movie comes along that really is worth the price of admission. These days it's the sort of thing that only happens once in a very long while&but it's happening right now at a theat...
Posted by Lauri on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:16:00 PST

Long Time No Blog!

We've had one crazy summer, even by our standards - launching and teaching at the two concurrent Act One summer programs, working on post-production of our Romania documentary, getting FooL4LuV ready ...
Posted by Lauri on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 05:51:00 PST

Help Wanted

Yours, that is - especially if you live in the Pacific Northwest, or know an actor who would like to live there. On June 18-19 (that's next week), Taproot Theatre is holding auditions for their roads...
Posted by Lauri on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:51:00 PST