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Formative Creative Experiences: I was a kid actor and then I got into theater. I stopped acting and started writing plays.
'; bioContent += 'Influential Movies or TV Shows: Network, Hospital, Marty, My Man Godfrey, Gone With the Wind, Dance with a Stranger, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python\'s the Meaning of Life, Sullivan\'s Travels, Casablanca, All About Eve, Rear Window, Arsenic and Old Lace, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Shining, Gaslight, The Thin Man, Laura. Phantom of the Paradise, The Last Waltz, Headwig and the Angry Inch, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Gilda, Funny Girl, The Sound of Music, Jezebel, Now Voyager, Ball of Fire, Grand Illusion, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Carrie, Dark Victory, The Petrified Forrest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Seven Beauties, The Producers, His Girl Friday, Born Yesterday, This is Spinal Tap, Swept Away, Day for Night. Okay, TV... SNL, Everybody Loves Raymond, Will&Grace, Absolutely Fabulous, Cracker, All My Children, Moonlighting, All in the Family, The Sopranos, ER, Larry David, Seinfeld, Star Dates, Shipmates, NYPD Blue.
'; bioContent += 'Comment on Your WBC Experience: It was great. I was in one of the first WBC\'s. We met in Jeff\'s apartment in West Los Angeles.
'; bioContent += 'What are your favorite WBC tools? The 3-6-3 is awesome.
'; bioContent += 'How you got your start in the business: I was a child actor. An agent saw me at my drama school and asked my parents if I wanted to do TV. They asked me and I said yes. In my early 20\'s I stopped acting and started writing plays. My first play, "The Steven Weed Show" went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland and I fell in love with writing after that. I just finished my first novel.
'; bioContent += 'Describe the Transition Stages of Your Career: Abject poverty, then huge success, then a level-out period, then more success, then no one wanted to know from me, then a little success, then almost poverty and no one wanted to know from me again, then renewed success ... and on it goes.
'; bioContent += 'How many hours per week do you devote to your creative work: I\'m like a creative freak. If I\'m not writing, I\'m taking photos, or painting photos, or making jewelry, or clothes, or bags, or ripping pages out of design magazines, or making journals ... it never really stops for me.
'; bioContent += 'What biases or preferences do you have regarding the writing process? I don\'t believe in "writers block", I just believe there are good writing days and bad writing days. I have to give myself a deadline. I like to write during the day as if it were a 9-5 job. Sometimes I have to procrastinate until I have no choice but to write. I don\'t like to talk about my work, and I don\'t really like to talk about writing unless it\'s about the art of it, I leave the business side to itself. I don\'t believe in inspiration. I don\'t think a person has to be inspired to write. I don\'t believe in a "muse". I think one has to write whether they feel inspired or not, because a lot of writing is mathematical, which is probably why I picked the 3-6-3 exercise. Sometimes one just has to hunker down and write no matter how they feel. I believe that a writer needs to accept the rewrite process. And, mostly, I believe that you have to be able to make cuts and revisions liberally.
'; bioContent += 'Do you have any special rituals, places you write, etc.? I write in my office at home. I light candles. I chew on a corncob pipe. I listen to music. I always have a glass of tea, iced or not near me. I go online when I need to be distracted. I answer the phone so I can procrastinate. I write in my pajamas. Mostly I get up, walk the dog, run an errand or two and then change back into my PJ\'s to write. I wish I still smoked.
'; bioContent += 'Do you have anything you’d like to say about LA or the entertainment world? LA is just a city. People come to LA with their dreams, and they transfer their dreams on the city. If something goes wrong it\'s because LA sucks: the people in LA suck, the women are money hungry flakes, the men are all looking for bimbos. But, what most people fail to take into consideration, is that the masses come to LA from other places. There\'s nothing wrong with LA in and of itself. However, LA is imbued with so much crap that it becomes something much bigger and darker than it really is. LA has it\'s own rhythm, culture and life force. I think it\'s a great place.
'; bioContent += 'And, about the entertainment industry, well, it\'s tough, it\'ll kick your ass. Surround yourself with friends and loved ones, have other outlets, and don\'t take it personally. The entertainment industry isn\'t a reflection of who you are, if you let it be that, it will jack you up.
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