If you think it’s tough for a writer in 2018, imagine how Margaret Atwood felt at the beginning of her career. “It was impossible,” the celebrated author says. “I was starting out in Canada in the 1950s. There was no market. I thought I would have to have a day job.”
Her back-up plan could have made her into the next Danielle Steel. “I thought I’d write true romances,” Atwood says. “But I tried, and I basically couldn’t do it. I was 18, what can I tell you? It bogged down in the middle. I could do the plots, but I couldn’t do the prose. It was in the age of dots. Something happened on the sofa, and then they were …” She pauses. “Dot, Dot, Dot! I couldn’t do that.”
Atwood is one of five honorees at this year’s Variety Power of Women luncheon on April...
Her back-up plan could have made her into the next Danielle Steel. “I thought I’d write true romances,” Atwood says. “But I tried, and I basically couldn’t do it. I was 18, what can I tell you? It bogged down in the middle. I could do the plots, but I couldn’t do the prose. It was in the age of dots. Something happened on the sofa, and then they were …” She pauses. “Dot, Dot, Dot! I couldn’t do that.”
Atwood is one of five honorees at this year’s Variety Power of Women luncheon on April...
- 4/10/2018
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety Film + TV
Lrff organizers say attendance numbers have more than doubled over last year's festival. Part of the reason has to be the high quality of films screening. Here are some of my favorites.
Daryl Wein (Breaking Upwards) & Logan Miller (Touching Home) at Lrff Picnic
Touching HomeThink about this scenario: You've never written a screenplay. You've never directed a film. You've never acted in a film. Heck, you've never even been a grip. Try taking that resume and making a film with it, starring veteran actor Ed Harris. That is exactly what co-directors Logan and Noah Miller have done with Touching Home. Based on the true story of the Miller Brothers' relationship with their alcoholic father (played by Harris) the twin brothers play themselves and are surprisingly good. Filmed at and around their home in Marin County, north of San Francisco, the story focuses on the boys' attempts to become professional baseball...
Daryl Wein (Breaking Upwards) & Logan Miller (Touching Home) at Lrff Picnic
Touching HomeThink about this scenario: You've never written a screenplay. You've never directed a film. You've never acted in a film. Heck, you've never even been a grip. Try taking that resume and making a film with it, starring veteran actor Ed Harris. That is exactly what co-directors Logan and Noah Miller have done with Touching Home. Based on the true story of the Miller Brothers' relationship with their alcoholic father (played by Harris) the twin brothers play themselves and are surprisingly good. Filmed at and around their home in Marin County, north of San Francisco, the story focuses on the boys' attempts to become professional baseball...
- 5/20/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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