writing
How Do You Know If You’re a Writer?
[caption id="attachment_2435" align="alignleft" width="314" caption="With Dr. Wayne Dyer, at the Hayhouse Cruise, 2008"][/caption] These days, so very many people come to me and say that they want to write something - a book, a screenplay, a blog, a song - but that they don't know if it's in them...
10 Lessons My 30s Taught Me
Dedicated the Beth. [caption id="attachment_2397" align="alignleft" width="380" caption="Madonna, 2012 Super Bowl."][/caption] 1. The body changed at 30 and will continue to do so, without asking our permission. How we react to the changes is our choice. Swearing at the mirror doesn'...
Can Fat Girls Finally Be Popular?
For D. "You know how bad you feel when you have a special event, a reunion, a wedding, a bar mitzvah, and you wanted to lose that extra 10 to 40 pounds, and you didn't do it? So the day comes and now you've got to try to find something to wear that makes you feel halfway decent, and you...
Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 3: Meeting Jacob
"Hearts flutter and race, the moon's on the wane Tarts mutter their dream, hopes the night will ordain Come schemers and dancers, cherry delight As a Cleveland-bound Greyhound, and it cuts through the night." - "Drunk on the Moon" by Tom Waits, 1974 Chapter 3: Meeting Jacob Song ...
Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 2: Meeting Marianne
"cleveland - there are parts of me you will not understand for centuries." – e.i. levi, 1968 Chapter 2: Meeting Marianne Song Selection: Dan Auerbach - Mean Monsoon (Keep It Hid) Downtown Cleveland birthed creepy alleys. These alleys have their own corners, their own smells and their...
Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 1: Welcome to Cleveland
Cleveland Poster January 2012; Photos and design: A. Sukhoy Nearly five years ago I set out with the ambitious goal of writing my first script. Since then, it's been rewritten, edited, re-edited, read by several producers, a few family members and even some friends; people who generously gave o...
40 Turning on You.
[caption id="attachment_2115" align="alignleft" width="261" caption="Seventh birthday party, Chicago"][/caption] "You could've done anything -- if you'd wanted And all your friends and family think that you're lucky. But the side of you they'll never see Is when you're left alone ...
Tyler Davidson: Take 5 – Spirit Awards and Back to Sundance
Tyler Davidson’s N.E. Ohio produced cinematic masterpiece Take Shelter recently got nominated for five Independent Film Spirit Awards: Best Film, Best Director (Jeff Nichols), Best Lead Actor (Michael Shannon), Best Supporting Actress (Jessica Chastain) and the Piaget Producer’s Award. Th...
The Way
Written by Alex Sukhoy for Film Slate Magazine. four and a half slates out of five In today’s fiscally challenging times, personal film projects are risky. And, yet, the present creates the perfect timing for films that focus less on big budgets and more so on craftsmanship. Audience segment...
The Ides of March
Written by Alex Sukhoy for Film Slate Magazine. three and a half slates out of five “The Ides of March” is a testosterone packed political thriller starring Ryan Gosling and George Clooney. Clooney plays Ohio governor Mike Morris, an ambitious family man and politician who has hired Stephe...
