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As night recedes and morning approaches, the ghost trees drift forward. Draped in mist and fog, branches reaching out towards the edge of the endless road. Pale shapes looming in the haze as cold wind slips around the trunks and ripples through the leaves. Evergreen phantoms coming to life as
Two women poets meet at the Ritz. Anne Sexton, brash and bold, arrives late. Sylvia Plath, precise and poised, waits patiently. They drink, they smoke, they talk of men and love. “Three Martini Lunch” is a literary short story about creativity and self-expression, about friendship and poetry. How will their
It’s July 1957. Ennio Flaiano sits at a cafe table on Via Veneto under an awning in the late afternoon. People are passing this way and that. They don’t walk to their destinations, they saunter by, brushing past the tables, lingering, as if they were in the main
In an underground soundstage, reality bends. Electronic stars watch as President Donald Trump prepares for humanity’s reckoning. An apocalyptic threat looms. A new future awaits. “Sensorium” is a cosmic short story about the end of the world. How will humanity face its greatest challenge? Can one man change everything?
Scratching down a few ideas to fold into the script. - Bill’s hulking sidekick and protector is named Lenny Big (who’s taller than Bill who’s a good six feet tall) and modelled after Lennie Small in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” Some running gag about