" If you only walk on sunny days, you will never reach your destination."
- spoken by a Buddist Monk to a Vietnamese refugee.
( From Oliver Stone's Vietnam War Trilogy film ' Heaven and Earth' )
This title presents an expanded non-fiction auto-biographical work. The television mini-series project ACCOUNTABILITY is drawn from this auto-biography. This book includes more detail, as well as supplements additional political topics and specific experiences in my personal life. More emphasis is stressed upon those previously unmentioned years 1943-1960 ( i.e. not in ACCOUNTABILITY ), being raised the son of a high-ranking military officer, and, experiences of living in four different countries by the time I was twelve years old.
The theme of this book concentrates upon struggles from catastrophes in life. Hence, we have a learning how to survive those ' cloudy days' in order to ultimately one day ' see the sun.'
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A talented young singer, after being drugged and traumatically raped by a Roman Catholic priest, struggles through adult life afflicted with serious mental illness. Her lawyer husband crusades inexorably to extract retributive justice from the Vatican City State.
AUTO-BIOGRAPHY - This work concentrates upon struggles from catastrophes in life. Hence, we have a learning how to survive those ' cloudy days' in order to ultimately one day ' see the sun.'
3- LAMERHAV :
A distraught Palestinian professor, demanding justice for deaths of his family on a London street, learns the suspect is a diplomat trying to sell Israeli nuclear technology to Iran. When this official is granted immunity for secret information, the professor then pursues nemesis with help from Israel’s intelligence services.
4- LEGIONS OF HONOR:
In 1934 a highly-decorated United States Marine Corps General grapples to prevent Wall Street billionaires executing an elaborate coup d'état plot to replace President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a quasi-dictator, and, thereafter align the USA with fascist politics in Europe.
4- LEGIONS OF HONOR:
In 1934 a highly-decorated United States Marine Corps General grapples to prevent Wall Street billionaires executing an elaborate coup d'état plot to replace President Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a quasi-dictator, and, thereafter align the USA with fascist politics in Europe.
NOTE: For intellectual property protection rights, all of these works are registered with the US Library of Congress and Writers Guild of America - West .
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HISTORY OF WRITINGS
Writing screenplays originally begins as a research hobby over thirty years ago. In 1982 an interesting potential project catches my eye. That is a 50-word trivia piece in the SACRAMENTO BEE newspaper ( California ) about a little known coup d'etat plot against United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thereafter arrives thoughts for " Legions of Honour."
Writing screenplays originally begins as a research hobby over thirty years ago. In 1982 an interesting potential project catches my eye. That is a 50-word trivia piece in the SACRAMENTO BEE newspaper ( California ) about a little known coup d'etat plot against United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thereafter arrives thoughts for " Legions of Honour."
From 1986-1990 I work on a PhD. at the London School of Economics & Political Science. My thesis topic is Israeli-South African Relations. From this research arises groundwork for a screenplay called " Lamerhav " ( Hebrew meaning 'into the open' ).
During the 1990's my past time hobby is taken more seriously by reading books about screenwriting and film making. I attend weekend short courses at the UK National Film and Television School in London. They are screenwriting, documentary & drama production, business skills, camera and sound, film editing, and, directing.
My personal life and world experiences give birth to numerous project ideas from 1990-2010. However, further creative development is limited to four screenplays and an associated auto-biographical book.
Eventually I purchase Movie Magic Screenwriter software to revise projects. I also decide to market my work to producers and creative executives under the banner of: WINDRUSH RIVER PRODUCTIONS. This name derives from the Windrush River, which runs through a region where I live in West Oxfordshire, England.
Alas, as of 2016 my projects awaken to approaching specific story editors and producers with a rudimentary logline blog approach, as well entire screenplay submissions to BBC, Film 4 and ITV television commissioning divisions in the United Kingdom.
