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Martha Garvey
Hoboken, New Jersey USA
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1. My complicated and funny recovering alcoholic father got a brain tumor, which, despite the fact that he hated sports, was always described as "big as a baseball," not, "about the size of Charlie Parker's fist," which he would have enjoyed more.
2. In the midst of the cancer chaos, I finished a screenplay about a genius female computer programmer who invents a new kind of artificial intelligence with a 12-year-old psychopath which was loved by my feisty female adviser and loathed by my revered, blacklisted male screenwriting teacher.
3. The weekend my father began brutal, false-hope experimental chemotherapy, my boyfriend got drunk at the house of a friend (who would eventually be nominated for an Oscar for HIS screenplay), met a man, and broke my heart temporarily.
4. Ronald Reagan was re-elected, and I did nothing about it.
5. I saw Mark Morris dance naked for the first time, I saw Ron Vawter act naked in a Jeff Weiss play, I felt raw and naked myself but did not drink, and I lived.
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