Greetings Dr. Hollywood,
If you are looking for a writer's assistant
that is 1) willing to rise with the sun and work until Security Guard Sam
has found his seat at the front desk; 2) is able to concept, craft. and
condense any genre or lexicon of written text into a concise and clean
format; 3) expert with Final Draft 4) published writer; 5) all-around "swell"
guy, the please take a minute to read my resume and curriculum and give
me a call.
Thanks and all the best.
Barry.Jude Landry
Dear Barry,
Thank you for braving time and space
to contact me.
You are the answer to my prayers. I
live up a dirt road in the middle of the desert, fifteen miles from civilization
with no transportation. I need to get my kids to the bus stop every weekday
PRECISELY at sunrise, which is when you're up anyway. Here's a map.
I need you about 6:30AM.
Thanks,
MD
Dear Dr. "Desert Dweller" Hollywood,
Thanks immensely for the generous offer
to support and develop my burgeoning writing career with your empirical
expertise and awe-inspiring screenwriting gift. My rate (not including
gas) is $1000/Day. If this is OK, when might I start?
BJL
Barry,
My friend Andre is going to inherit
$6 million next month. If you'll take a post-dated check, we're on.
MD
Dear Dr.,
No worries, just sign over your land, horses,
trucks, livestock, and any real-estate titles in third-world countries
and I'll make sure Junior and Juniorette make it to the bus stop pronto
like Tonto. Tell your buddy Andre that I know a great tax lawyer -- he
only takes half.
BJL
Dear Barry,
I own a patch of land in New Guinea
that's perfect for a leper colony. The title's in my sister's name but
I can forge her signature pretty well. All my horses and livestock are
roaming the free ranges of Montana, but if you can round them up, they're
yours. And if I had a truck, I wouldn't need your help.
MD
Gee Doctor,
Your life is a little bit on the chaotic
side -- maybe I should reconsider that offer. I tell you what, if
your sister is hot and she knows how to round up horses, tell her to give
me a call. We'll fix up that 'ole truck (any man worth his salt has
a beat-up truck on his desolate desert property), sell the property in
New Guinea (cannibalistic lepers? scary...), kick you out (you sound like
you need some tough-love), and raise Junior and Juniorette on our own --
maybe look into some home-schooling fer the yung 'uns.
All the best.
BJ
Barry,
Well, if you're going to be THAT way
about it. My uncle Sid grooms Brad Pitt's analyst's dog and he's gotten
Brad to agree to star in my treatment of the life of Gerald Ford and we
need someone like you for the final polish. But now, forget it.
MD
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