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Not Just an Actress | Donald Seigel“Live From New York, it’s Saturday Night.” If you’ve been conscious and living on this planet for any of the four previous decades you’ve no doubt heard this introduction, and, at least once, taken in the hour and a half of late night satirical comedy that followed. For me, like so many others, watching Saturday Night Live was a weekly ritual enacted with no less than ten of my closest friends; it was the very centerpiece of my weekend around which all other events revolved. More |
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Best Books on Screenwriting | Donald SeigelThese are five books that every aspiring screenwriter must own. 1. Adventures in the Screen Trade, by William Goldman 2. Screenplay: The Foundation of Screenwriting, by Syd Field 3. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting, by Robert Mckee |
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The Power of a Song | Donald SeigelAs a writer, I have always wanted to share the experience that impacted and shaped my life more than any other: the early loss of my father and what it was like growing up without the presence of a male role model. I always assumed this would be in the form of a book, given the amplitude of the loss and all I had to express. My assumption magically changed with an introduction to a songwriting workshop taught and run by a most incredible woman. More |
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Favorite Wallace Stevens Poems | CommunityWallace Stevens was an insurance executive and a poet. He was very influenced by painters (eg. Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist”). David Hockney published an illustrated version of Stevens’ “Man with the Blue Guitar” - poet inspired by painter, painter inspired by poet. |
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It’s Never Too Late to Learn Something New | Donald SeigelWhat would possess a woman, who had already achieved a lion’s share of fame and success in the entertainment world, to sit and wait until eleven o’clock on a Monday night, just to play one of her songs for an audience of seven tired people in a relatively unknown club located at the center of some industrial stretch in North Hollywood? If you’re Tracy Newman the answer is “Love. I love songwriting and I love playing my music for others.” |
