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People have told me that this matters, that my life is about to change. I am sure that is true. And change is good -- change is exciting. I think -- not to jinx it -- that I may finally be recognized at Comiccon. Imagine! Also, with my percentage of "the Avengers" gross, I can afford to buy... [gets call from agent. Weeps manfully. Resumes typing.] ...a fine meal. But REALLY fine, with truffles and s#!+. And I can get a studio to finance my dream project, the reboot of "Air Bud" that we all feel is so long overdue. (He could play Jai Alai! Think of the emotional ramifications of JAI ALAI!!!!)

What doesn't change is anything that matters. What doesn't change is that I've had the smartest, most loyal, most passionate, most articulate group of -- I'm not even gonna say fans. I'm going with "peeps" -- that any cult oddity such as my bad self could have dreamt of. When almost no one was watching, when people probably should have STOPPED watching, I've had three constants: my family and friends, my collaborators (often the same), and y'all. A lot of stories have come out about my "dark years", and how I'm "unrecognized"... I love these stories, because they make me seem super-important, but I have never felt the darkness (and I'm ALL about my darkness) that they described. Because I have so much. I have people, in my life, on this site, in places I've yet to discover, that always made me feel the truth of success: an artist and an audience communicating. Communicating to the point of collaborating. I've thought, "maybe I'm over; maybe I've said my piece". But never with fear. Never with rancor. Because of y'all. Because you knew me when. If you think topping a box office record compares with someone telling you your work helped them through a rough time, you're probably new here.

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Hailey Leithauser Wins the 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award

Hailey Leithauser has won the 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award. The award is given by the Poetry Foundation to an American poet of at least 40 years of age who has yet to publish a first collection.

Greywolf Press will publish Leithauser's book-length poetry manuscript Swoop in October 2013. She also will receive a $10,000 prize, and be honored at the Pegasus Awards ceremony on June 11th.

Jeff Shotts, the poetry editor at Graywolf, had this to say about the winning manuscript: "Leithauser is a risk-taker. She is innovative -- with spirited titles and musical outbursts—but also nods to poetic tradition with rhyming sonnets and other lyric techniques. I take delight in so many of these lines and stanzas. I am engaged, throughout, and admire her wide-ranging talent."

Leithauser stopped writing poetry for several decades, but returned to it in 2000. Since then her poetry has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Gettysburg Review, Pleiades, Best American Poetry, and Poetry. In 2004 she won the Discovery/The Nation Award and received an individual artist's grant from the Maryland Arts Council. She has served as the senior reference librarian at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., and holds a a BA in English literature and a master's in library and information science, both from the University of Maryland.

You can read her poem "Fever" here.

Posted on May 17, 2012

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Bradley Cooper is a Frustrated Novelist in The Words



Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana star in The Words, a film about a struggling novelist who finds an abandoned masterpiece. The novel he finds his so brilliant that he starts typing the words in his computer just to see what it feels like to write so well. You know what happens next -- he passes the work off as his own and is hailed as this generation's Hemingway. Then the real author (played by Ben Barnes as a young man and Jeremy Irons as his older self) shows up, and things gets really complicated. It looks quite interesting. The film also stars Olivia Wilde and Dennis Quaid. Take a look:

Photo: CBS Films

Posted on May 17, 2012

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Aaron Sorkin to Write Screenplay for Steve Jobs Movie



Sony Pictures has tapped Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay for a movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Sorkin - who won an Oscar in 2011 for The Social Network - will adapt the screenplay from the biography, Steve Jobs, by journalist Walter Isaacson. The biography was Amazon's bestselling book of 2011.

Amy Pascal, Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Doug Belgrad, President of Columbia Pictures. The project is being produced by Mark Gordon, Scott Rudin and Guymon Casady.

Pascal says, "Steve Jobs' story is unique: he was one of the most revolutionary and influential men not just of our time but of all time. There is no writer working in Hollywood today who is more capable of capturing such an extraordinary life for the screen than Aaron Sorkin; in his hands, we're confident that the film will be everything that Jobs himself was: captivating, entertaining, and polarizing."

The film from Sony Pictures is not the same Steve Jobs film in the works that will star Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs. That project is from an independent producer. Kutcher is not starring in the movie Sorkin will be writing the screenplay for.

Photo: Simon & Schuster

Posted on May 16, 2012

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