Sublime

In every scene, remember, a protagonist is presented with a mini crisis, and must make a choice as to how to surmount it. Meeting with a subversion of expectation – a blow to their established plans – a character must choose a new course of action. In doing so they reveal a little bit more of who they are.

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Marshall Crenshaw performing at Princeton University. Marshall Crenshaw is a bespectacled singer-songwriter whose music has a slight 1950s/ pre-Beatles bent; his most famous song is probably “Someday, Someway” from his debut album. He played Buddy Holly in the movie La Bamba.

But she’ll talk to Imani McGuire. Holly is a fan of Michael Connelly’s detective hero, Harry Bosch, and especially of Bosch’s number one maxim: get off your ass and go knock on doors.

Nicholson was playing tennis at Quincy Jones’s when Towne first proposed the idea. “Look,” Towne said. “We can’t get The Last Detail going right now. What if I write a detective movie for you? It’ll be L.A. in the thirties.”

strong sense of place, time and tone, and an expression of the central theme of the series.

Samm Levine: Scott Sassa called me himself and said, “I loved the show. But at the end of the day, it’s a business.” I’ve been on a lot of canceled shows since then and I’ve never heard from the network president.