Jodie Foster Angst
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Ditto short description. Certain other personages are mentioned: Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet, Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe, June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ronald Reagan, Harvey Keitel, Robert de Niro, Larry King, Madonna, Stella Adler, Isabelle Huppert, and several others briefly mentioned.
Acting, drama, Hollywood, sex, marriage and John Hinckley are discussed. Several movie storylines are laid out.
The plot is somewhat farcical, suggesting Natalie Portman as a cinematic scapegoat for Foster's angst and iconic place in American culture. A pop psychoanalysis suggests Foster is a nymphomaniac hiding behind a counterculture alternate lifestyle. The main theme spins around a Jungian pattern of synchronicity between the author and the title character with the object of improving the author's life: sex, money and helpmate for the trials of life in an often harsh and perverse world. The play is somewhat dark (so many plays are) and is neither flattering to the author nor to Foster.
The joke in Hollywood is: Did you hear about the actress who was so stupid that she dated a writer? One supposes these are aspiring actresses and not established stars with less need for networking for job career enhancement. The tongue in cheek retort would be: Did you hear about the screenwriter who was so stupid that he dated an aspiring actress? Actresses and writers go together like horse and carriage, but this costs money. The subsistence percentage income level for writers wishing to make a living at it is doubtless considerably worse than the 90% unemployment rate for actors, especially when you include non-union wannabes. Perhaps stand-up comics have a harder time. The harvest is small and the reapers many, and so the play is a waste of time from an odds point of view. But writing is its own reward and Foster is not the only girl in town. It beats internet dating. Sure you can write there but it is too ad lib. The actresses write their own dialog. They say writers are no longer allowed on movie sets. Good! Screenplays annoy me. I have one stage direction: long shot, mid shot, close-up. Nobody sticks to the dialog and happenstance changes everything. The first casualty in the cinematic battle is the script. Don't bother me. Except for a short skit involving Foster years ago, I have never even bothered to write one. Some writer!
Hope you enjoy it.
P.S. This would be a much better play if Foster edited it beforehand. I just know she would make a good editor.
Edward E. Rochon
I write for my health and the health of the world. Often the cure rivals the disease in grief and aches. My writing career started at twelve when I attempted to write a sequel to Huckleberry Finn but never finished it. My writings have included poetry, plays, a novel, non-fiction and writing newsletters for here and there. Recently, I am dabbling into short stories. Apart from newsletters, nothing has been published in print. I bought an audio recording of one of my poems but threw it away in disgust due to an inappropriate reading by the narrator. 'Contra Pantheism...' was my first eBook. About a hundred eBooks have been published since including some books of verse, and my essays collected into five volumes, and one volume of collected poems. A few other types of literature are on my list of published works. My essays deal with fundamental questions of philosophy as well as natural philosophy (science.) On the whole, my works are as far above the writings of Plato and Aristotle as the material power of the United States is over that of Ancient Greece. I once asked myself if I had ever written anything memorable, but couldn't remember exactly what I had written. I started to check my manuscripts but stopped as it seemed the answer to the question was obvious. Gore Vidal mentioned in one of his memoirs that writers tend to forget what they write and are a bad source to ask about their works. Gore knew a lot of writers. I have not and may have been a bit hard on myself. Apart from self-improvement and maybe making a few bucks, my main goal is to bring about a golden age for mankind. Being a man, this sounds appealing. It is pointless to desist and all small measures are worth the effort. Albert Camus thought suicide the only serious philosophical question. He was a fool and died young. Suicide is a waste of time. The most important functional question is: How do I get what I want? The one question that trumps this is the ultimate question of intent: What should I want? As Goethe pointed out: Be careful what you wish for in your youth, you might get it in middle age.
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