Michael's Substack
Michael R. BarnardThe battle to get screenplays made into movies ... and now, to get stage plays mounted as performances.
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IL DUCE BENITO MUSSOLINI’S Kid Brought Daddy’s Fascism to Hollywood in 1937
In my research for the fact-based Political Noir feature film screenplay BOYLE HEIGHTS 1939, I came across a lot of information that didn’t make it into the screenplay.
Example:
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The State Propaganda Machine
This is how the authoritarian tyrant crushes Free Speech and Freedom of the Press. He starts by lawsuits and threats that intimidate the media.
This is why it's important to #blockthemerger.
IL DUCE TRUMP had already used lawsuits and t...
LAUREN SÁNCHEZ
I just saw the most amazing performance in any live theatre I have ever experienced.
And it wasn't a play ... it was a staged reading of a new stageplay in development, "LAUREN SÁNCHEZ" by Bernardio Cubría. This was an amazing presentation...
FASCISM!
Democracy was a new concept in the 1700s when our Founding Fathers were trying to figure out how to apply this new concept of government "By the people, for the people" to the new world.
The governing of people throughout history was seize...
Two decades ago, I shot myself in the foot
This is my very frank and humiliating story. It’s a warning.
Two decades ago, I thought my “career” was moving into high gear. My fiend of twenty years, a popular TV star, wanted to make his own low-budget movie because somebody else made...
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Lived my life upside down: came in hot and flamed out. Still here, though. Decades of film and broadcast experience as writer, director, producer, talent, and crew. Raised in Minneapolis, lived most of my life in L.A. and a few years in NYC.
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