A quick post on this Monday. First, I found out that my part is going to be in the final cut for the movie, “WILD CHERRY” with Rob Schneider and Rumer Willis. It’s coming out in theaters, February 2009. Yay!

Also, a friend of mine, Adam Huss, who is the Director of Outreach Programming at the Writers Guild Foundation, whom I’ve worked with for the WGA High School Screenwriting Workshop posted this guest blog post…by me. Check it out if you get a chance. Here is a quote from their website:

“The Writers Guild High School Screenwriting Workshop is a program where professional writers and members of the Writers Guild of America, first deconstruct popular film and television shows to teach the basic process of writing for film and television; and then guide high school students through the process of writing their own short screenplays.
At the end of a two-week workshop, each student completes at least a three-scene screenplay (roughly 7 – 10 pages), based on stories drawn from their own lives. On the final day of the workhops, volunteer actors from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) perform select students’ scripts before the entire class and possibly the larger student body.”

Kids crack me up because they’re pretty brutally honest. Here’s an example: This past weekend, I had to go over to a family friend’s house with my Dad. I ended up talking with my Dad’s friend’s 11 yr. son, Steve. Here was our conversation.

INT.HOUSE-DAY
ME: Hey
STEVE: Um. Hi.
ME: So, you’re 11, right?
STEVE: Yeah.
ME: So, how’s school?
STEVE: Fine
(Meanwhile I’m thinking…was this how I answered questions when I was 11? Probably)
ME: So, what kind of music do you like? Do you like High School Musical?
STEVE: No. That’s for girls. The wimpy ones.
ME: Oh ok. What about your favorite TV shows?
STEVE: TV? (laughs) Nobody watches TV anymore. It’s always the same thing over and over. Boring.
ME: Then what do you do?
STEVE: Just Youtube and Chatango
ME: That’s it?
STEVE: Yup. Um, I have to go back to my room. My friends are on chat.
ME: What about music?
STEVE: I like T.I and Hip-Hop.
Then I let him hear my phone ringtone of TI and Rihanna’s “Live Your Life.”
Steve looks up at me with that look that says, “Okay, maybe you’re not THAT much of a loser.”

Kids these days… By the way, here’s a video from Nas called “I Can,” which basically tells kids that they can do whatever they want to, if they put their minds to it. Love it.