Month: October 2022
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On (Re)Writing Pretty Woman
To this day, people often ask me why my name doesn’t appear in the credits of the film, Pretty Woman, on which I did a lot of work. It’s a long story and it’s a short story. The long one first, at least as I remember it. In the late eighties, Touchstone Picture acquired the…
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Notes on a Son
When my son was sixteen years old, he did the Shark Fest Swim. Alcatraz to the wharves of San Francisco. One and half miles in cold, turbulent, shark infested water. I shivered and quaked at the thought. A year later, he and his high school swim mates did The Catalina Relay. Twenty odd miles from…
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Blocked
Writer’s Block: A condition in which a writer is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown. It should be so simple. I don’t know if it’s age, the anxieties, and uncertainties of the current times, but I have lost my ability to create. It’s never happened before. In a forty-odd career…
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Stephen Metcalfe 