Friends, It's really something that this ended up being my 150th blog post. Life sure has been a weird and wild ride. I started in my 20s as a caregiver in nursing homes and hospice, and here I am, full circle, living with and 24/7 caring for a family member with Alzheimer's. It is a merciless, long goodbye. Thanks for all of your support and kind thoughts. Keep writing,For Immediate ReleaseAugust 20, 2025One Moorer Media & Management is saddened to announce that  Laura Crisp Davis has resigned from her position as Chief Operating Officer. She has been on indefinite leave since ...

In honor of FREAKIER FRIDAY premiering this month, I made a list of all of my favorite SWITCHEROO movies, meaning, the ones where people switch bodies or circumstances, or when a character experiences new circumstances while in disguise or living a "double life", and usually they must gain sincere empathy for each other in order to switch back, or realize something about themselves in order to get their life back.25. Like Father, Like Son (comedy, fantasy, 1987 PG-13 1h 50m)why I love it: I saw this in the theater because I was absolutely the target teenage audience at the time. The ...

My 2023 #LauraAtTheMovies journey is a list of screenwriters I love and why they inspire me as a writer, competition juror, and fan.Screenwriter: Aline Brosh McKennaBest Known For: The Devil Wears Prada, Cruella, Annie (2014), Laws of Attraction, I Don’t Know How She Does It, We Bought a Zoo, 27 Dresses, Three to TangoAwards & Nominations: The Devil Wears Prada earned five nominations including BAFTA and WGA, and won an award from the Women Film Critics Circle. She won a Gotham Award for the series, My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.About the writer: After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, she sold her first screenplay at 26 ...

My 2023 #LauraAtTheMovies journey is a list of screenwriters I love and why they inspire me as a writer, competition juror, and fan.Screenwriter: Amy Holden JonesBest Known For: The Resident (TV series), Indecent Proposal, Beethoven (and its SEVEN sequels!), Mystic Pizza, The Slumber Party Massacre.Awards & Nominations: 1975 AFI National Student Film Festival, first place1993 Razzie Award, screenplay Indecent Proposal2019 Sentinel Award, Best Serial DramaAbout the writer: Women in film owe this fearless trailblazer a debt of gratitude. She majored in art history at Wellesley College while concurrently taking filmmaking classes at MIT, and her student documentary short won first place at ...

My 2023 #LauraAtTheMovies journey is a list of screenwriters I love and why they inspire me as a writer, competition juror, and fan.Screenwriter: Leslie DixonBest Known For: Mrs. Doubtfire, Hairspray, Just Like Heaven, Freaky Friday (2003), Pay It Forward, The Thomas Crown Affair, Overboard (1987 & 2018), Outrageous Fortune.Awards & Nominations: Saturn Award nomination for Best Writing (Freaky Friday)About the writer: On her journey to becoming a screenwriter, she was hired as a script reader. She used her work experience as a masterclass in studying script structure, formatting, genre mechanics, audience appeal, and what made a producer or studio buy a ...

My 2023 #LauraAtTheMovies journey is a list of screenwriters I love and why they inspire me as a writer, competition juror, and fan.Screenwriter: Kazuo IshiguroBest Known For: Living, The Remains of the DayAwards & Nominations: 2 wins & 12 nominations, most recently, Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay (Living). He's been highly honored by Britain, France, and Japan. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to literature (1995), Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (1998), Order of the Rising Sun, 2nd Class, Gold and Silver Star by the ...

My 2023 #LauraAtTheMovies journey is a list of screenwriters I love and why they inspire me as a writer, competition juror, and fan.Screenwriter: Tony KushnerBest Known For: West Side Story, Lincoln, Munich, The FabelmansAwards & Nominations: 26 wins, 85 nominations including for 4 Oscars. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his play, "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes."About the writer: Tony Kushner has collaborated on multiple projects with director Stephen Spielberg, as well as several books with children's author/illustrator Maurice Sendak. He's also written several critically acclaimed plays.Why I love their work: Musical, historical drama, children's lit, and biographical drama? I ...

My 2023 #LauraAtTheMovies journey is a list of screenwriters I love and why they inspire me as a writer, competition juror, and fan.Screenwriter:  Steven de SouzaBest Known For: Knight Rider, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, The Running Man, 48 Hrs.Awards & Nominations: First, not every writer is an "Oscar writer" but that doesn't mean they aren't wildly successful. He's had 4 wins and 2 nominations, and none were part of the golden derby (Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Emmy, People's Choice, Independent Spirit, etc). However he is one of a small group of writers to bank over $2 billion at the box ...

My 2023 #LauraAtTheMovies journey is a list of screenwriters I love and why they inspire me as a writer, competition juror, and fan.Screenwriters:  Todd Field Best Known For: TarAwards & Nominations: He's got 135+ nominations and 36 wins...most recently Tar was up for several Oscars and made its way through the golden derby of major nominations. About the writer:  Field began as an actor and just as he was on the precipice of A-list roles, decided to switch to directing and writing. A bold move that has paid off. He's got credits in television, shorts, and features for acting, directing, writing, and crew, ...

This Sunday is the 95th Academy Awards, which will hopefully be an inspiring, entertaining show. With Jimmy Kimmel hosting, it's highly likely the "slap incident" from last year will be a punch line through out the evening. I hope not. But it might be funny if he ends the show with one of those workplace safety signs, "The Oscars have been incident-free for 1 year."Here are 5 moments I’m hoping to see:1. Ke Huy Quan accepts Best Supporting Actor with, "Goonies Never Say Die!"2. Jamie Lee Curtis accepts Best Supporting Actress and thanks all of us Halloween fans for supporting ...