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Wide-Scale Writing
As a writer, I’m a big proponent of wide-scale writing, across genres, for different situations, with different people. For me, it’s challenging and interesting to have the proverbial fire full of various hot irons. With my play production coming to an end last weekend, I took a broad look at the various items I’m currently…
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Show-time!
Months of work is finally coming to a head. This past summer, I wrote the script for “Tales of Wonder II,” and I started rehearsing with the cast in August. It can, at times, get long and tedious, and the end goal can get lost in the minutia of the day-to-day preparations. But then, it’s…
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A Boy from Pennsylvania Weighs In
Pennsylvania did it. It ruthlessly defied the odds and pushed Donald Trump into the White House. Everyone is still in shock. Both Republicans and Democrats. Something was afoot, and everyone (or nearly everyone) missed it. I grew up in Butler County, western Pennsylvania, just north of Pittsburgh. It has a series of small towns, rolling…
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Inha Kim Movie Reviews: Swiss Army Man
Inha Kim is back for this exceptional review of “Swiss Army Man.” Yes, it makes me want to see it. Enjoy! The Most Rewarding Fart of 2016 Ever watched a film so strange, so bizarre, so… unique, that you had to see it again the moment it ended? No? Well you just might do that…
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Has Hollywood Killed Method Acting?
In this very interesting article from Atlantic, Angelica Bastien explores the idea that Hollywood is killing method acting. Here’s an excerpt expressing her thoughts: Method acting, founded by the father of modern theatre Stanislavsky and furthered in America under Lee Strasburg, is the idea that the actor must emotionally and physically commit oneself to the…
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I Want a Politician Who Stands Up for Everyone
The mayor of San Jose was quoted the other day as criticizing Donald Trump for running the type of campaign which riles up people and causes problems. This in response to the rough treatment that some Trump supporters received after leaving a Trump rally in San Jose. He said, in effect, that Trump has to…
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My Book is Much Better. Would Endless Delay Improve It More?
I recently put the brakes on the novel I had “finished” because I realized suddenly that I don’t know what the word “finished” means. I thought it was the novel I wanted to write, but it wasn’t. It was incredibly flawed. I was introducing an author’s voice that I didn’t want to introduce and some…
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Review: Star Wars – The Force Awakens – Does it match its hype?
It’s a good film. Does it match its hype? No. Is it, as one critic said, “not only the best Star Wars film, but also one of the best films of 2015.” Ummm. No. I am a Star Wars fan. I’m not a total zealous fanatic, and I usually approach sci-fi with much apprehension. But…
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First Time Ever: “Banyan Tree” novel FREE on Kindle! Limited time.
“The Reach of the Banyan Tree” was published in July of 2014. I’m proud of this novel, because whether anyone else liked it or not, it was my great Vietnamese novel that I always wanted to write. You see, I lived there for ten years, and I learned to love the culture and history of…
Author Mark W Sasse 