Mike D

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Gender Male
Introduction This is a blog devoted to the craft of writing for film and television, from Serling to Roddenberry to Milius to Stallone.
Interests Screenwriting, film journalism, law
Favorite Movies A Hard Day's Night, Rocky, The Right Stuff, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, ET, Drive, Sorcerer, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Die Hard, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Krull, Dellamorte Dellamore, Big Wednesday, Marathon Man, Planet of the Apes, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Mission: Impossible, The Godfather, The Spy Who Loved Me, My Favorite Year, Peter's Friends, Blade Runner, Escape From New York, John Carpenter's The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Armageddon, The Killer, Hard Boiled, First Blood, Marie Antoinette, Cobra, Dracula (1979), The Untouchables, Altered States, Bulworth, Interstellar, Zoolander, A Single Man, 2010, The Blues Brothers, Goodfellas, Superman, Doomsday, The Descent, Trust the Man, Independence Day, The Fury, Mama Mia! Here We Go Again
Favorite Music Beatles, ELO, Adam Ant, Led Zeppelin, The Divine Comedy, Duckworth Lewis Method, Lady Gaga, Petula Clark, Cyndi Lauper, New Order, David Bowie, U2, Kinks, Pogues, Nina Simone, Scott Walker, Sam Cooke, Pet Shop Boys, Tears For Fears, Iggy Pop, Rancid, John Williams, James Horner, David Arnold, Ennio Morricone, and pretty much any quality synth pop.
Favorite Books The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Long Walk by Stephen King, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, All The President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald, First Blood by David Morrell

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