The Dotted Logline

Sorry for the lack of postage. All my time recently has been consumed by moving prep, and that is frankly very boring.

I took my mom to see Flight Plan this evening. It’s not normally the type of movie I’d go see in the theater… parts of it were pretty silly, but you have to respect a movie that has a 40+ year old female engineer as an action hero. I was a bit skeptical of how well an airplane would work as pretty much the only setting in a suspense/action movie, but they solved that by using a newly designed ginormous airliner with two levels, a full bar, and tons of nooks and crannies.

If someone were to make a list of best ways for action movie heroes to deliver emotionally satisfying smackdowns on villains, a fire extinguisher to the face should rank pretty high.

My hesitations about moving to California are slightly abated due to the fact that I somehow managed to find a beautiful studio apartment in a nice neighborhood right in Hollywood in my price range and purchase almost all the furniture to fill it up in about three days. A lot of that has to do with my mother, who is very good at this sort of thing, but it is still a very positive omen.

So it looks like in less than a month, I’ll be one of those people who walks around with copies of my script (in PDF format on CDs) hoping to bump into someone influential. And since I am right across the street from the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centere and the closest grocery store to the Hollywood Hills, that isn’t very farfetched.