Where are the broads???

My apologies to Carolyn and anyone else who has been distracted by my schizophrenic changing of my template style. I'm playing around with some different styles, don't worry, once I find one I like, I will stick with it.

Last night I watched Bravo's Project Greenlight. You know, the reality show of how they make a terrible movie that will bomb in the box office and lose Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Miramax films even more money.

The first episode covers how they picked the winning script and director. It came down to 10 finalists in each category. All men. All white men. And surprise suprise, the contest winners were a writing team of GASP two white men, and a director who was also a white man. He also came across in the show as a complete freak, but that's beside the point. The producers acknowledged many times that the script they picked wasn't the best one, but it was the one the studio felt they could sell.

So that's what this is all about - not necessarily skill or good story telling, it's what 8 white men in a room have decided is the most profitable. I know, that's the way Hollywood works, but it BLOWS. I do have to say Matt Damon impressed me - he was one of the only guys who was angry and saying "this is not why I got into movies, this is not the kind of movie I want to make!"

But I have a more urgent question: Where were all the ladies??? I don't believe for a minute that there weren't hundreds of talented women who submitted scripts or director reels. It's just so frustrating to know that it's so hard to get into this business, and even when you do, you still get beat out by two chumps who wrote a 'blockbuster'. Frustrating, but that's life, and I say bring it on. I am SO applying to this contest next year. That is of course assuming that this year's debacle doesn't shut the whole Project Greenlight system down completely.

The only highlight for me was the preview for next week - aparently the writers, who are all cocky and think their scipt is perfect, are told that there are major flaws in the story and script and that they might have to bring in another writer to do the rewrite. I have one thing to say to that:

Hey Matt and Ben, I'll rewrite it!! Pick me! Pick me!!