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In an era of manufactured outrage and sanitized comedy, it’s time to kick through the noise. Time to get behind the Kickstarter campaign for a screenplay on the legendary comedian and truth-seeker Bill Hicks https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/371467918/boscuttis-bill-hicks-a-screenplay “Boscutti’s Bill Hicks” isn’t your typical
EXT. LOS ANGELES - GALAXY MOVIE THEATER - NIGHT An American flag appears upside down, rippling in a slight breeze. A black cowboy boot steps in splattering the reflection in a sidewalk puddle. Then steps forward. We hear BILL HICKS’ whiny voice as we move up his black pants, and
It is July 7, 1647. Dawn spills over the Piazza de Mercato in Naples as the fish sellers and vendors gather for the day’s trade. Grain merchants, money lenders, bakers, fruiterers, poets, butchers, vagabonds, jewellers, thieves, scoundrels, acrobats, bandits, travellers, smugglers, spies, assassins. Worshippers head to the Carmelite Santa
Donna Tartt’s Southern Gothic opus begins with an inexplicable murder of a young innocent boy in the family yard. It’s this memory that haunts his young twelve-year-old sister, Harriet Dufresnes. A brazen child so obstinate and argumentative, she makes Scout Finch look like a lackadaisical underachiever. Our young
It’s a sparkling day. Brilliant blue skies, tufts of white clouds, two hulking armoured trucks lined with armed immigration agents in full military fatigues trundle through the downtown fashion district toward a clothing wholesaler. Screaming alarms and sirens, lights thrashing red and blue. The sides of the trucks are