The Writer's Life 9/29 - The Club

I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me during the first episode of Gotham’s second season, but the plot line is similar to one of my two screenplays, All Hallows, which I describe as “five nuts escape asylum, wreak havoc.” There is even the same ratio of four men to one woman, a young beauty as opposed to my wicked witch wannabe. I’m not suggesting the idea was stolen from my story, which takes place in a small town anywhere USA, not a big city, but it is quite a coincidence. The creator of the show, Bruno Heller, certainly doesn’t need to pilfer from me. He wrote or collaborated on all 151 episodes of one of my favorites, The Mentalist, which I still watch in its syndication run on Thursday night on MyNine. Gotham may be the most violent prime-time TV show ever.

After watching the premiere of Minority Report last week, I switched back to Scorpion. I prefer its silly fun. The four young geniuses differentiate it from other action shows... After its brilliant opening sequence in episode one, Blindspot has settled into standard action fare. Not bad, but yet another fast-paced thriller with repeated cliffhangers at commercial breaks. There are many series like it... Supergirl doesn't debut until late October. I look forward to it, but hope it doesn't clobber viewers with feminist cliches. Just let her be heroic. People will get it.

I teased Barry Spunt, author of Heroin and Music in NYC, as he passed the floating book shop today. I called him "Professor." He actually is one, having earned a PhD in 1990. "That and two-seventy-five will get you on the subway," he said. I also had a visit from Bob Rubenstein, whose reworking of his first novel, Ghost Runners, will be available very soon at Create Space and Amazon. I introduced him to Al the Mensch, who was on his way to an audiologist and kiddingly saying: "What? What?". He recently attended the funeral of his mother in law, 92, and had awkward moments with his ex-wife, who now lives in Arizona. He claims her relatives say: "Why did you divorce this man?" Apparently, he is still carrying a torch for her, despite the pain. There are millions in that club. Always has been, always will be.

My thanks to the kind ladies who bought five books between them.
Vic's 5th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/okxkwh5

Vic's 4th novel: tinyurl.com/bszwlxh

Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3

Vic's Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx
Vic's Short Story Collection: http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tiny.cc/0iHLb Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kx3d3uf
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tinyurl.com/l84h63j

Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp

Vic's Horror Screenplay: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f

Vic's Blog: http://vicfortezza.blogspot.com/

Vic's Web Site: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/