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To: epicure who wrote (40118)	10/20/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

<<<I sent a letter to my local paper offering to review movies- but they never wrote me back.>>> Well pooh. Big dopes. You've got the memory, and, the VERVE, which is, imho, well where the foam really comes on the beer. You know, or something something something. Like me. Sooper, sooper, sooper, expressiveable. Like. :o) I don't know. There has to be some way to bundle all this talent a person sees around here. Do you, would you like to, write movies? My wife, frinstance, has read 9 or so thousand mysteries. I think she could write one. I don't know if that would be FUN for her, or just a dream of escaping the teaching profession, which has turned into scary, pretty horrible chaos. Me, I would, I could see writng a film, just for fun. You know? Just for fun. You write it, and then you put it on the shelf and take it down sometimes and read it. I bet ya some of the people at SI could write a Blue or Zero Effect. I mean if you had them arrested and sent to a cabin outside Truth Or Consequences, with a stocked bar and some motorcycles. We could probably have an outline in an hour. Two days, max. [Doesn't this sound vaguely exciting?] I just spilled salad dressing on my shirt. [That's not part of the outline.] I know some great places to go write. Hee hee. And when I think how much fun those guys must have had writing and making Shakespeare In Love, I think, well, you could do that, not write the movie, but get a piece of paper and write on it. Pretend, and have just as much fun. You could maybe write some more papers. Maybe you need a gimmick or something. "Mommie's Intelligent Movies."

To: epicure who wrote (40118)	10/20/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

OK, here is how you do it, but I am only going to tell you once. Go to a movie. Write a review. Do this several times. And march into the local FREEBIE paper ~ this is important ~ and tell them that you love movies so much you want to do it for free. Trust me on this. Do whatever it takes to get the job. Beg. Cry. Offer a blowjob (for godssake, don't give one!). Then write the reviews, and collect the clippings, until you have a goodly number. Take them to your local cheapie paper, and show them your clippings, and tell them how wonderful you are, and offer to do it for cheap. Repeat as many times as it takes to get paid real money and/or work for a good company. The only way you can get a job in journalism is if you have clippings. Repeat after me: the only way you can get a job in journalism is if you have clippings. This is the only time I am going to tell you, so do it or don't, but don't say I never told you.