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Topics Of Discussion
Experienced Comedy Writers Wanted
Freelance Greeting Card Writers Needed
WAVE To Hold First Official Event
Publishing Company Seeks Material
Cakewalk Releases Club Tracks
Extras Needed For Video
Longtime Hollywood Publisher Seeks Scary Songs
Cinematics
Sound Releases
Employment
Hot Links
Events
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End Notes
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Music By Professionals, For Professionals
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that can provide any material needed for a scene or for a session.
In Hollywood, CA, since 1982, please call us for any music need.
We specialize in live (or recorded) production, events,
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Experienced Comedy Writers Wanted
Nationally known comedian Yakov Smirnoff is looking for talented comedy
writers for live act, television, book, etc. Comedy writing experience
required. Television/comedy series or stand-up comedy work a big plus.
Flexible start options (freelance/part time). Great career growth potential.
Send bio, resume, and short sample of your best work.
Contact:Honey@Yakov.com.
Freelance Greeting Card Writers Needed
Kate Harper Designs, a greeting card publisher, is seeking holiday/Christmas
quotes for their 2001 holiday line. Writers are strongly encouraged to submit
work at this time. Kate Harper Designs is a handmade greeting card company
that sells cards to over 2,000 stores throughout the United States, including
Whole Foods Markets, Papyrus, Tower Books, along with many independent
bookstores.
Contact: kateharp@aol.com,
http://hometown.aol.com/kateharp/myhomepage/profile.html.
WAVE To Hold First Official Event
The World Artists' Vision Exchange (WAVE) will be holding its first official
event, "The WAVE Holiday Open House," on Sunday, December 10th, from 1:00 to
5:00 p.m., at The Willow House, S.E. corner of 3rd Avenue and McDowell Road
in Phoenix, Arizona. The purpose of this holiday mixer is to introduce the
organization to the arts community and provide an opportunity for artists to
network and show support for the local arts scene. There will be
refreshments, raffles, great prizes, and lots of fun!
WAVE is a cooperative, providing support to all artists in achieving their
dreams. It was conceived by caring individuals, to support, educate, and
provide contacts and information to emerging visual and performing artists at
no charge through networking, mentoring, and pooling resources. In this way,
they have co-created an organization in the hopes that they may add to the
cultural richness of the community, while helping one another on the road to
successful careers and personal fulfillment. WAVE is currently seeking
sponsors and affiliates.
Contact: onlinewave@hotmail.com,
http://www.geocities.com/worldartistsvisionexchange.
Publishing Company Seeks Material
Simmons Road Enterprises is looking for new material. The genre they mostly
deal with is country and some light pop. Submissions should be no more than
three professionally recorded songs on tape, CD, or DAT, with lyric sheets,
biography, and contact information. Submissions cannot be returned and
applicants will only be contacted if there is interest.
Contact: Pat Simmons
Cakewalk Releases Club Tracks
Cakewalk, makers of the best-selling music and sound software for Windows,
has released Cakewalk Club Tracks, the multitrack remix studio ($49.00
estimated retail price). Club Tracks allows anyone with a PC to produce
original loop-based music projects and remixes that can be saved as stereo
WAV files, MP3s, or burned to an audio CD.
Club Tracks requires no prior musical experience, allowing any club music fan
to create remixes. With its drag-and-drop audio editor, multitrack mixing
console, complete PowerFX audio loop library and Fruity Loops Express loop
generator, Club Tracks provides everything needed to produce
professional-quality remix music in hip-hop, house, drum 'n' bass, techno,
and other dance music styles.
Beyond creating music with the included PowerFX loop library and
Belgium-based Image Line's Fruity Loops Express loop generator, users can
build additional layers of tracks by recording samples from CDs, or by adding
their own vocal or instrument tracks. Club Tracks also makes it easy for
scratch DJs to record performances while other tracks play back.
By controlling an on-screen console, users can mix tracks in real-time using
chorus, reverb, echo, delay, and flange effects. Club Tracks also supports
DirectX-compatible audio plug-ins, providing a way for users to expand their
effects capabilities as needed.
Contact: info@PowerFX.com
Extras Needed For Video
Vigilant Cinema Productions is shooting a music video, featuring a new
artist, on Monday, December 11th, at Club 5 in Washington, D.C. They are
looking for people to cast as extras for the club scene.
Contact: Amelia, (202) 223-04101, Vigilant_Cinema@hotmail.com.
Longtime Hollywood Publisher Seeks Scary Songs
Hollywood Music Publisher Janet Fisher, Director of Goodnight Kiss Music
Publishing and Productions, is seeking "scary" songs and music for their
Hollywood event next October to celebrate their multi-authored book, "Music
Horror Stories: A Collection of Gruesome,
True Tales As Told By Actual Innocent Victims Seeking A Career In The Music
Business" (ISBN 0970356374).
Fisher hosts a variety of free music-related contests at her site, and she
sometimes selects entries to sign into her publishing catalogue (which has
been supplying the film and TV industries with songs for more than fifteen
years). She also occasionally uses some of the songs for special projects
that she produces. The Contest runs from December 1, 2000 to August 15, 2001.
Fisher's company, known in the music community for their consistent catalogue
work, also sponsors contests which are free and open to anyone who adheres to
the rules. If the material is selected for use, there is no charge be
included (CDs, Books, etc.), but rather royalties are earned by the
participants.
Qualifying winners will be invited to perform their song at the Goodnight
Kiss "Music Horror Stories Book Event" in October 2001 in Hollywood,
California before a full house of industry guests. There will be an array of
prizes, and appropriate songs will be offered a publishing contract with
Goodnight Kiss Music. A CD and video of the event are planned.
Sponsorship packages are available for the event and web-site, and a physical
book listing may be requested for a very limited period of time. Please
inquire at sponsors@goodnightkiss.com.
Contact:
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Cinematics
Title: "Unbreakable."
Fade In: Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan shot to fame in the summer of
1999 with the release of his highly effective "The Sixth Sense," which, due
to having one of the most extraordinary twist endings in film history,
gradually became one of the top-grossing motion pictures of all time. "The
Sixth Sense" was such a powerful stunner, in fact, that it possibly helped
and hurt Shyamalan's future directing efforts. The film's success proved that
he was a fresh and exciting new filmmaker, but also put a very large feat
over his head in attempting to top its predecessor.
Everyone who sees M. Night Shyamalan's latest endeavor, "Unbreakable," will
unfairly be comparing it to "The Sixth Sense," which is a shame. In its own
way, "Unbreakable" is as just as much a one-of-a-kind film, if not quite as
air-tight in every aspect. Both movies are similar in many stylistic ways,
and it will always be clear who is at the helm here for anyone whose seen
"The Sixth Sense." Both movies are moody and foreboding, and their
intentionally gloomy cinematography stands as a symbol of where the
characters stand in their lives. There is even a subplot in both concerning
marital discord. The similarities stop here, as "Unbreakable" is a completely
different type of movie, with separate goals in mind, and a gratifying payoff
that isn't quite as shocking as the one in "The Sixth Sense," but every bit
as necessary in completing Shyamalan's complete intentions.
David Dunne (Bruce Willis) is a Franklin Field security guard in Philadelphia
who is traveling home from a job interview in New York by train. Following a
failed attempt to strike up a fling with a pretty fellow passenger (Leslie
Stefanson), the train is involved in a tragic freak accident leaving 131
passengers dead, and one survivor: David. Even more mysterious is the fact
that David is not only alive, but escaped completely unscathed of even a
minor cut or bruise. Returning home to his young son (Spencer Treat Clark)
and a lifeless marriage to his wife, Audrey (Robin Wright Penn), David takes
up where he left off with his job as security guard, but grows intrigued when
he receives a note on the window shield of his car asking how many days he
has been sick in his life.
The writer of the note turns out to be comic book art dealer Elijah Price
(Samuel L. Jackson), who was born with a rare disease leaving his bones
terribly brittle and particularly apt to injury. When David finally realizes
that he has never grown ill before, nor has he ever been injured (save for a
near-drowning as a child), he is aided by Elijah in progressively setting
into action the true reason why he survived the train crash, and more
precisely, why he was put on the earth.
It's no secret to say that "Unbreakable" is sort of like a reality-based
superhero movie, since this plot development is hinted at even before the
first frame of film and comes into play fifteen minutes in. What is so
special about the picture, however, is in the way that it follows this story
thread throughout, unfolding with a deliberate pace that remains intriguing
due to its great amount of detail and character nuances. To give away any
more of the movie than has already been mentioned would be criminal, as much
of the film's satisfaction evolves from not knowing where the story is
leading.
While the relatively slow pace of "The Sixth Sense" helped to make the
frightening sequences all the more startling and the ending all the more
meaningful, the occasionally lethargic tone of "Unbreakable" proves
problematic. Although never boring or tedious, the movie is nearly devoid of
anything resembling happiness or humor. The characters remain in depressingly
downbeat lives free of any sort of joy, and it is difficult to grow close to
anyone because of this approach. We care about their welfare, even as we wish
they would show a little more human emotion aside from overwhelming sadness.
It is Shyamalan's one downfall, but should be noted.
Ever since wisely realizing his career was at a standstill with his endless
action movie roles, Bruce Willis has found a much-needed resurgence in his
career, and rightfully so. Willis is very good as the confused protagonist,
and his low-key performance does nothing but help to convey a character
filled with insecurities and flaws, who isn't quite sure how to mend the
damage he has done in his life, particularly with his rocky marriage. Samuel
L. Jackson, as the elusively kind Elijah, brings added flavor to his role of
a man who turned to comic books as a child as a way of dealing with his
health problems.
The supporting cast have less-meaty roles, but some are just as memorable.
Robin Wright Penn poignantly presents Audrey as a physical therapist who
spends her time helping others when its her own life that needs the most
mending. She longs to recapture the spark in her relationship with David, as
sees his surviving of the crash as a strong sign that the time to do such a
thing is now. As David and Audrey's pre-teen son, Spencer Treat Clark has got
the whole brooding-kid act down flat, but doesn't have enough to work with to
make him entirely sympathetic. And Charlayne Woodard, as Elijah's loving
mother, projects nothing but sweetness and caring in a movie that is
otherwise absent of such adjectives.
"Unbreakable" is a mostly spellbinding drama that may not be the spectacular
achievement of Shyamalan's last film, but why does it, or should it, have to
be? There is no doubt that he knows exactly how to write and direct
thought-provoking pieces of work, and he has only confirmed this here. In the
end, the movie finds the one vital missing link that puts everything that has
come before into perspective. The conclusion is unpredictable and a little
surprising, but it's necessary, rather than a simple plot device to one-up
"The Sixth Sense." Ultimately, "Unbreakable" is a truly impressive rumination
about the importance of finding meaning in every person's life, and not
letting that purpose put to waste.
Contact:
Dustin Putman
6313 Ford Road
Frederick, MD 21702
FilmFan16@aol.com.
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Sound Releases
Tuesday, December 5th
Alice In Chains, "Live" (Columbia)
Tuesday, December 12th
Field Mob, "613: Ashy To Classy" (MCA)
Employment
Position: West Coast Branch Manager. Caroline Distribution is looking to
fill the position of West Coast Branch Manager. This management position is a
great opportunity for an individual to maintain and help grow a west coast
sales operation. They are looking for an enthusiastic well-rounded music
professional, capable of managing their west coast sales office. This
includes the ability to sell and market music to their west coast
retail/e-tail/wholesale account base. Caroline Distribution is a leading
independent distributor of electronic, punk rock, underground hip-hop, and
heavy metal music in the United States.
Requirements: Be able to manage a staff of 15+ individuals; strong
relationships with key purchasing/marketing personnel at our customer base
(major chains, mom & pop retail, and wholesalers) a plus; must have a strong
understanding of the music distribution processes (warehousing, sales,
marketing, accounting); must be willing to travel to west coast account base;
and must have strong computer and oral/written interpersonal skills.
Contact:
Hot Links
Bookmark: http://www.writehitsongs.com.
Images: Currently looking for a song in the style of Nine Inch Nails
(industrial hard rock). All songs will be considered, you can send individual
songs or a CD. Royalty payments will be made.
Events
What: The Circle.
When: Tuesday, December 5th, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Musical Theater Works, 440 Lafayette Street (near Astor Place),
Contact: http://www.RPDieguez.com/tclocation.html.
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