The following exchange is being forwarded as a change of pace from recent SCREEN-L posts. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Cal Pryluck, Radio-Television-Film, Temple University, Philadelphia <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> SCREENsite -- A Film/TV-studies site on the World Wide Web URL:http://www.sa.ua.edu/TCF/welcome.htm =================================================================== Date: Tue, 21 Nov 95 11:55:19 0800 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: (no subject) Hey Mr. Pryluck -- I was one of your students back at Temple U -- took your doc course about fifteen years ago. Now I write screenplays in Hollywood. Have had several lo-bud movies made but am hating it more each year. The producers get rich. Writers starve or go crazy. Absolutely no respect from directors, actors, producers or crew people. Unless you're Spielberg it just ain't worth it! If you ever visit the Internet Screenwriters Network, specifically the Log Room, you can read some of my recent work -- posted under the nom de web [name omitted by request] ======================================================================= 25 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 95 14:27:10 EST From: Cal <[log in to unmask]> Subject: making it in Hollywood To: [name omitted by request] Did you miss my standard lecture on "making it in the business"? Well, maybe you did since the documentary class was not usually exposed to the stock lecture that I administered to many groups of students on the topic. I take no pleasure in hearing that things haven't changed out there. May I forward your post to a discussion group SCREEN-L that has many students? I can eliminate parts that identify you specifically, or not as you wish. The message, though, is one that bears repeating. Best wishes, cal ======================================================================= 41 Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 21:07:57 -0800 To: Cal <[log in to unmask]> From: [name omitted by request] Subject: Re: making it in Hollywood Yes, feel free to distribute my message but please remove any identifying elements. I am still actively trying to make a living out here and do not want to destroy any chances I may have of selling another screenplay or two before I pack up and get out of Dodge for good. Blacklisting is very real. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]