Topic Archive: LAO Script Project
Eric Estrin is hard at work revising and polishing Right of Way, the noir thriller featuring an ambitious, subway-craving Los Angeles mayor written last year by LA Observed readers in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 11, 2009 2:25 PM
Today's segment on KCRW looks behind the scenes at The Wrap, the new Hollywood news website headed by Sharon Waxman. It airs at 4:44 p.m. at 89.9 FM, or is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 27, 2009 4:23 PM
Over at the LA Observed Script Project, Eric Estrin writes a working screenwriter's two sweetest words: fade out. In the seven or eight months since this site has been active,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted September 11, 2008 8:55 PM
In the third to last installment of the LA Observed Script Project, Mayor Russell Napolitano is on his way to be executed with the beautiful Rachel, but slips out of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 29, 2008 8:15 AM
I figured it would get harder to recruit submissions for the LA Observed Script Project as the story got longer and more layered, but producer Eric Estrin has been keeping... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 25, 2008 12:22 AM
As the LA Observed Script Project nears its natural end point, producer Eric Estrin has an assignment for the would-be screenwriters out there. This project’s been a total blast to... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 16, 2008 1:31 AM
Eric Estrin and the LA Observed Script Project were featured tonight on the KCAL news at 8 pm and 10 pm and the Channel 2 show at 11. Eric says... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted August 11, 2008 11:52 PM
Mayor Russell Napolitano has gone back underground — literally, not metaphorically — and we have a new writer. This week's pages are by KP Mackie, who lives in San Diego... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 31, 2008 9:52 PM
Eric Estrin, and just abut everyone else, was surprised and probably a tad confused when the story line in our LA Observed Script Project script turned on a murder committed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 23, 2008 5:27 PM
This week's LA Observed Script Project pages were submitted by Steve Chivers, a writer and producer for TV, movies and the Web. LAOSP producer Eric Estrin gives him thanks —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 17, 2008 12:52 AM
Tomorrow at noon on KPCC (89.3 FM), John Rabe and his Off-Ramp Players will read a scene from "Right of Way," the script for a noir movie that LA Observed... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 11, 2008 4:32 PM
After the turn into Act 3, the story of Mayor Russell Napolitano and the Wilshire subway suddenly begins to make sense. Even with the mayor on live television running from... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted July 8, 2008 11:36 PM
Not Antonio Villaraigosa, but Russell Napolitano — the city's mayor in our LA Observed Script Project story Right of Way. This week's winning writer, Marvin Wolf, has written fifteen books,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 27, 2008 11:01 PM
Quick run around the site: Celeste and Mayor Napolitano are reunited — with a twist I didn't see coming — and it's time to tie together some of the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 18, 2008 9:59 PM
After being threatened, chased, kidnapped, battered and beaten, fictional L.A. mayor Russell Napolitano finally got back to his office in City Hall. Phew. The fast-moving action in "Right of Way"... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted June 5, 2008 9:50 PM
Imagine the mayor of Los Angeles, walking shoeless through Venice at night, kidnapped by a blackmailer who has compromising photos of the mayor and his honey. Then imagine the mayor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 14, 2008 10:53 PM
In our developing L.A. noir story to beat them all, Mayor Russell Napolitano was snatched off the sand beneath Santa Monica Pier and thrown in a motorboat. He tried fighting... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 7, 2008 11:48 PM
Writers who couldn't get enough of the Times' Birds of Paradise contest still have a place to strut their stuff. A better place even, since the LA Observed Script Project... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted May 2, 2008 8:20 AM
As he's being chased down La Brea by two possibly phony cops in a menacing SUV, Mayor Russell Napolitano — the fictional mayor of Los Angeles — slips his precious... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 23, 2008 10:30 PM
Oops, The Order isn't a cult. It's "a gateway to ultimate enlightenment and fulfillment," as our Lexus-driving, subway-craving, ladies-loving mayor Russell Napolitano learns in this week's pages for "Right of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 10:30 PM
In the latest installment of the LA Observed Script Project, Los Angeles mayor Russell Napolitano rushes from comforting a semi-grieving widow in Malibu to the scene of a homicide at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 3, 2008 11:56 PM
Eric is off this week doing his duty as the parent of a pre-college teen, so everybody can take some time to play with their pages for Right of Way.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 24, 2008 12:40 AM
Scene: Detectives Deland and Gallardo drive to Malibu to give Celeste the bad news: her husband died in the restroom of a North Hollywood theater, the Vermouth. Murdered — while... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 19, 2008 11:43 PM
Eric Estrin selected two winners who have never met for the LA Observed Script Project t-shirt this week. Bill Braunstein was new to Los Angeles in 1985 when the Ross... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 12, 2008 9:16 AM
Tad Daley, a writing fellow with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, rides on weekends with Los Angeles Wheelmen, Santa Monica Critical Mass and the South Bay Cruisers.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 9, 2008 12:15 PM
As Mayor Napolitano leaves the Brentwood party with Celeste, her husband is gagging on an unwanted mouth full of gnarly Scottish peat in the men's room of a North Hollywood... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 5, 2008 11:56 PM
Pages 4-6 of Right of Way have been posted at the LA Observed Script Project. In the emerging L.A. noir tale, Mayor Russell Napolitano has left the abandoned tunnel mouth... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 27, 2008 6:50 PM
Meet Eric Estrin, if you haven't already. He's been an occasional contributor to Native Intelligence for awhile now, as well as a TV writer and a moderator of the Writer... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 18, 2008 12:11 AM