For THE UNOBTAINABLES Series I was torn between raising funds for a sizzle reel or shooting the works on the pilot. Of course, economically speaking the sizzle reel would be more cost effective. I need loads of input here. Check out the site www.theunobtainablesseries.com to get the lowdown on the themes and items crucial to the series. I need ideas first--not money to start an Indiegogo or Kickstarter campaign. I need campaign incentives. Will need a few of the same item or the duplication of a number of original works.
Just a reminder, THE UNOBTAINABLES is in the vein or a homage if you will, of those deliciously decedent guilty pleasures of "Dynasty" or "Knots Landing" which was the magic of the late Aaron Spelling. If you miss these shows and your daytime pleasures of "All My Children" and "One Life To Live" you would want to be a part of THE UNOBTAINABLES.
Also interested in creative input. I'm building this from the ground up so get on board early if you are talent above and below the line. We're based in NYC.
Remember, this is a 1/2 single camera dramadey series with 13 written episodes being marketed to cable or webseries. It's not Romper Room. It's for the club crowd. Old school shout out to friends in NYC at The Monster, The Limelight, The Palladium. I need your product donations and ideas.
More to come.
Paisley
Monday, November 5, 2012
Thursday, July 21, 2011
"The Unobtainables" On The Rise
You all now know the ebook of "A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End" has been optioned. The new wrinkle is that I have been asked to adapt it into a television pilot. Oy vey! Wasn't it supposed to be a movie?
Who cares. I was jazzed to do it and lo and behold I got so stoked that I wrote a whole season of 13 damn episodes! I didn't want to leave any room for error or a shot at seeing these few years of losing my way being taken from me and interpreted into something--tawdry! Face it folks--I want to make it tawdry on my own accord and I did 13 sumptuously bitchy episodes suggesting to include some of the best 70s disco dance music and American popular standards of the 20th century. Remember Sarah Vaughn, Rosemary Clooney, Mel Torme, Duke Ellington? Along with today's artists, like Rasaan Patterson (the next coming of Prince) singing "Feels Good" and Chrisette Michele singing "If I Had My Way". What makes this all come together for me, is that it is reminiscent of the NYC Bar Scene of the 80s and 90s. You'd change clothes with your best friends (translation, BFF) at an after hours bar and go right to work in the city.
Agents and Managers are tricky creatures. You start with a novel and you go to a screenplay and then a TV series. All they want you to do is write! I love 'em because they kick my tookus to create.
I've been informed that my reps are feverishly working on raising funds to make a trailer or sizzle reel, I'm told, for the pilot to bring to network and cable. I'll work a night job to get this accomplished.
Our creative team needs the"Dos Equis" of Black Women. The universal search is on for an average to tall Black chanteuse 40s to 50s who can sing like, Sarah Vaughn, Dianne Reeves, or Anita Baker and dance like, Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Shirley MacLaine and Ann Reinking. Perhaps, Valarie Pettiford a little more subdued? Vanessa Williams with scarier eyes. The series is built around Catalina and a white guy in his 40s who's fit like a former professional tennis player and thinks he's God's gift to women.
I will post more casting suggesting as I firm up the details. Check back and send your demo .mov files, links, pictures and resumes if you want to help empower the pitching of the pilot for "The Unobtainables". I want the casting to be crazy tight to my vision. Also, we will need generous souls to volunteer the use of their spaces--i.e. intimate nightclub, mansion, tennis facility, etc. We will need a choreographer and club dancers and you my friends pretty much can figure out by now what else we might need.
Later...
Paisley
http://www.paisleyparksbooks.com/
Who cares. I was jazzed to do it and lo and behold I got so stoked that I wrote a whole season of 13 damn episodes! I didn't want to leave any room for error or a shot at seeing these few years of losing my way being taken from me and interpreted into something--tawdry! Face it folks--I want to make it tawdry on my own accord and I did 13 sumptuously bitchy episodes suggesting to include some of the best 70s disco dance music and American popular standards of the 20th century. Remember Sarah Vaughn, Rosemary Clooney, Mel Torme, Duke Ellington? Along with today's artists, like Rasaan Patterson (the next coming of Prince) singing "Feels Good" and Chrisette Michele singing "If I Had My Way". What makes this all come together for me, is that it is reminiscent of the NYC Bar Scene of the 80s and 90s. You'd change clothes with your best friends (translation, BFF) at an after hours bar and go right to work in the city.
Agents and Managers are tricky creatures. You start with a novel and you go to a screenplay and then a TV series. All they want you to do is write! I love 'em because they kick my tookus to create.
I've been informed that my reps are feverishly working on raising funds to make a trailer or sizzle reel, I'm told, for the pilot to bring to network and cable. I'll work a night job to get this accomplished.
Our creative team needs the"Dos Equis" of Black Women. The universal search is on for an average to tall Black chanteuse 40s to 50s who can sing like, Sarah Vaughn, Dianne Reeves, or Anita Baker and dance like, Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Shirley MacLaine and Ann Reinking. Perhaps, Valarie Pettiford a little more subdued? Vanessa Williams with scarier eyes. The series is built around Catalina and a white guy in his 40s who's fit like a former professional tennis player and thinks he's God's gift to women.
I will post more casting suggesting as I firm up the details. Check back and send your demo .mov files, links, pictures and resumes if you want to help empower the pitching of the pilot for "The Unobtainables". I want the casting to be crazy tight to my vision. Also, we will need generous souls to volunteer the use of their spaces--i.e. intimate nightclub, mansion, tennis facility, etc. We will need a choreographer and club dancers and you my friends pretty much can figure out by now what else we might need.
Later...
Paisley
http://www.paisleyparksbooks.com/
Monday, March 9, 2009
Failed Lesbians and Mediocre Bisexuals
The wish to belong where you do not is the issue.
There’s a character in “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen” that I created for some of you out there that just can’t win over a lesbian for your own. She truly had the inclination to be with a woman but lesbians didn’t want to be with her. Why? Most cases they thought she was straight, taken, uppity, or too timid to make a pass at. Just by looking at her one would just presume they would be rejected on any of those grounds. It didn’t matter if she was in corporate attire right after work or slumming on the weekends. On the other hand, men would flock to her in a gay bar. There was also the smattering of guys that would venture into lesbian bars and they would sniff her out. They could see none of the women would talk to her so they’d take pity and sidle up to her with an ulterior motive. It’s hard to make sense of all if it. Eventually, she would get loaded enough in the most refined fashion by not making a fuss or a ruckus and not being overly talkative and would make out or possibly have a fling with that so-called gay man. Then this guy would become her best girlfriend and pal around as a bisexual couple (in his mind) until he met another man and would leave her flat.
This character would make a valiant effort to go out and meet women by herself. It took years for her to make lesbian friends—all platonic lesbian friends. So, as her girlfriends tried to get to know her, they are so hypnotized by her mystery that they assumed she had a whole other life of lesbian lovers that she kept in various cities around the world since she was a traveling executive. They just wouldn’t believe that she was alone and she was too petrified inside to let anyone know she had longing and desire. She projects a façade of pride before desire.
Then the drinking would get a little too hard and the nights out a little too long and then it became her mission to have a woman want her at any cost even at the risk of losing her high power job. After all she is the perfect corporate model, sober by day and a vodka and champagne swilling incubus by night.
Eventually, there are some hookups with some lesbians but she can’t let down the guard enough to let a woman all the way into her life. Then the women slack off and she ventures out further to find a new crowd. The whole dating scene gets too predictable as the cycle continues for her. The women she meets still feel she’s straight. She grows weary of it all and marries a wealthy man who is perpetually intrigued by her stories of lesbian dalliances yet forbids her from cheating on him with a woman. She does it his way because in a stark about face, he’s never really convinced that she’s truly straight.
Read about it all now in the complete ebook novel "A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End" by Paisley Parks
www.paisleyparksbooks.com
Get Free Cassette Audio Book with your ebook download.
There’s a character in “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen” that I created for some of you out there that just can’t win over a lesbian for your own. She truly had the inclination to be with a woman but lesbians didn’t want to be with her. Why? Most cases they thought she was straight, taken, uppity, or too timid to make a pass at. Just by looking at her one would just presume they would be rejected on any of those grounds. It didn’t matter if she was in corporate attire right after work or slumming on the weekends. On the other hand, men would flock to her in a gay bar. There was also the smattering of guys that would venture into lesbian bars and they would sniff her out. They could see none of the women would talk to her so they’d take pity and sidle up to her with an ulterior motive. It’s hard to make sense of all if it. Eventually, she would get loaded enough in the most refined fashion by not making a fuss or a ruckus and not being overly talkative and would make out or possibly have a fling with that so-called gay man. Then this guy would become her best girlfriend and pal around as a bisexual couple (in his mind) until he met another man and would leave her flat.
This character would make a valiant effort to go out and meet women by herself. It took years for her to make lesbian friends—all platonic lesbian friends. So, as her girlfriends tried to get to know her, they are so hypnotized by her mystery that they assumed she had a whole other life of lesbian lovers that she kept in various cities around the world since she was a traveling executive. They just wouldn’t believe that she was alone and she was too petrified inside to let anyone know she had longing and desire. She projects a façade of pride before desire.
Then the drinking would get a little too hard and the nights out a little too long and then it became her mission to have a woman want her at any cost even at the risk of losing her high power job. After all she is the perfect corporate model, sober by day and a vodka and champagne swilling incubus by night.
Eventually, there are some hookups with some lesbians but she can’t let down the guard enough to let a woman all the way into her life. Then the women slack off and she ventures out further to find a new crowd. The whole dating scene gets too predictable as the cycle continues for her. The women she meets still feel she’s straight. She grows weary of it all and marries a wealthy man who is perpetually intrigued by her stories of lesbian dalliances yet forbids her from cheating on him with a woman. She does it his way because in a stark about face, he’s never really convinced that she’s truly straight.
Read about it all now in the complete ebook novel "A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End" by Paisley Parks
www.paisleyparksbooks.com
Get Free Cassette Audio Book with your ebook download.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
PAISLEY PARKS BOOKS SITE--FIXED
Microsoft has straightened everything out and the site is secure and phish-free. Thank you, Microsoft.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
MICROSOFT BLEW IT--THE SITE IS SAFE
To my horror, the webmaster tinkered with the buy book page for “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End” and it's setting off this despicable gremlin alert of this being a potential phishing website! NOT TRUE! This payment page is perfectly safe!
http://www.paisleyparksbooks.com/Buy%20E-Book.htm
The Paypal is there for payment for the book and the instructions for the information we need to send you our free promotional gift for your purchase, plus a Google search on the bottom to get more info on the promotional items available. THIS SITE IS SAFE!
www.paisleyparksbooks.com
Again, the site is safe and we are not interested in duping those who buy the book. The complaint has been registered with Microsoft and is still pending as they check out the site for themselves.
If you have any questions, shout me out or if you have a solution to help.
mail@paisleyparksbooks.com
http://www.paisleyparksbooks.com/Buy%20E-Book.htm
The Paypal is there for payment for the book and the instructions for the information we need to send you our free promotional gift for your purchase, plus a Google search on the bottom to get more info on the promotional items available. THIS SITE IS SAFE!
www.paisleyparksbooks.com
Again, the site is safe and we are not interested in duping those who buy the book. The complaint has been registered with Microsoft and is still pending as they check out the site for themselves.
If you have any questions, shout me out or if you have a solution to help.
mail@paisleyparksbooks.com
Friday, September 19, 2008
Political Notice of the Sexy Girls
Wow, I’m not a politically motivated but I don’t miss the opportunity to vote in every election. That is my obligation I feel for the slings and arrows the suffragettes endured. So, here is a word about Sarah Palin. She is very much the character Ryman Chadwick that I envisioned in my head. I got some of the inspiration for the character from the Canadian actress Wendy Crewson who was Harrison Ford’s wife---the 1st lady in “Air Force One”. It’s crazy because she has some Sarah Palin mannerism even if she is Canadian and not Alaskan. The similarities are there, no doubt. I can’t believe some of the parallels of Sarah Palin with my character in “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End”.
I have a news hound side and I’ve been glued to CNN and Bill Maher on HBO (who I totally agree with—but face it he had a major professional girl as a girlfriend). On some other news program, though I heard Michaela Angela Davis (yes, the Angela Davis!) say that if a black female candidate for V.P. paraded her family in front of the nation across our TV screens with a 17 year old pregnant daughter—goodnight! I agree with her and that’s that.
Palin has that appeal that ice road truckers find sexy. I say on behalf of Sarah Palin, “life is an Iditarod, oh chum, come to the Iditarod, today.”
As in the book, I had travels to all the venues mentioned but what went down there is not accurate in the book. It was about drama and fiction of these episodes.
I despise mary jane shoes. I can’t stand Shirley Temple curls.
And I love tall women. Did you see that woman with the 6 foot legs from Russia!
Can you imagine Kay Francis as your woman? She was a 5’9”—beautiful dame, taller than you.
I have a news hound side and I’ve been glued to CNN and Bill Maher on HBO (who I totally agree with—but face it he had a major professional girl as a girlfriend). On some other news program, though I heard Michaela Angela Davis (yes, the Angela Davis!) say that if a black female candidate for V.P. paraded her family in front of the nation across our TV screens with a 17 year old pregnant daughter—goodnight! I agree with her and that’s that.
Palin has that appeal that ice road truckers find sexy. I say on behalf of Sarah Palin, “life is an Iditarod, oh chum, come to the Iditarod, today.”
As in the book, I had travels to all the venues mentioned but what went down there is not accurate in the book. It was about drama and fiction of these episodes.
I despise mary jane shoes. I can’t stand Shirley Temple curls.
And I love tall women. Did you see that woman with the 6 foot legs from Russia!
Can you imagine Kay Francis as your woman? She was a 5’9”—beautiful dame, taller than you.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
More Kindling For the "A Whistling Girl & A Crowing Hen..." Fire
Okay, I mentioned to you that I was middle-aged, so some stuff I bring up may be dated to the toddlers out there but relevant to theatre, TV and movie buffs of the bygone 20th century.
I love film noir. Those folks knew how to smoke. There was an aplomb to it. Bette Davis had it down pat—a gorgeous smoker. Claudette Colbert had the best American diction I had ever heard and Greer Garson just oozed class. But a big inspiration for “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End” was seeing the film “Once Is Not Enough” based on the Jacqueline Susann novel. The film was released in 1975 and I was a teenager. It was a double bill with Diana Ross in “Mahogany”. These were the first R-rated films I had ever seen, yet not 17 years old. I wasn’t all that intrigued by the minimal gay content in “Mahogany” but when Alexis Smith and Melina Mercouri (draped in towels) were lesbian lovers in “Once Is Not Enough” I flipped my teenage pituitary glands. My body felt nuts! But it wasn’t the first and last time I felt that way. I can’t tell you about the first time yet. I’m thinly veiling that in fiction in my next book.
That feeling re-emerged during many visits to the movies, thereafter. I’ll tell you in time. But I must sneak in “The Great Lie” with Bette Davis and Mary Astor (1941). George Brent could have stayed missing and dead in the jungle. “Who every heard of an ounce of brandy!” That “Once Is Not Enough” movie feeling lingered on and on. Now you’re thinking, I’m another sorry sister who lives her life through movies. Not so. I don’t have any cats and even though I don’t date anymore (as you already know from previous entries) I have crazy, wild memories that people love to hear about when I chat around the fireside on the net. After all is said and done, you’ll be saying to yourself Paisley’s had a full life and not be wondering why I don’t date. I had to come up for air sometime. Plus, I participated in sports—yikes but not the college revelation sexual brouhaha. I was hip to my feelings long before that, but wasn’t conflicted by it. For the record I was never conflicted; nature took it's course and I did what I did as nature called me.
I went to the prom in high school with a guy and it was fine. We were an interracial couple. His father and stepmother were an interracial couple. I had a boyfriend in kindergarten. We were an interracial couple and would kiss in the police booth on the corner. We were too short and small to be seen. As it stands now, I have no connection to people of my past. I’m a realist—the masquerade is over and so is love. (Guess that song lyric…)
Do you every wonder what it would have been like to have Lana Turner as your woman?
I love film noir. Those folks knew how to smoke. There was an aplomb to it. Bette Davis had it down pat—a gorgeous smoker. Claudette Colbert had the best American diction I had ever heard and Greer Garson just oozed class. But a big inspiration for “A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To No Good End” was seeing the film “Once Is Not Enough” based on the Jacqueline Susann novel. The film was released in 1975 and I was a teenager. It was a double bill with Diana Ross in “Mahogany”. These were the first R-rated films I had ever seen, yet not 17 years old. I wasn’t all that intrigued by the minimal gay content in “Mahogany” but when Alexis Smith and Melina Mercouri (draped in towels) were lesbian lovers in “Once Is Not Enough” I flipped my teenage pituitary glands. My body felt nuts! But it wasn’t the first and last time I felt that way. I can’t tell you about the first time yet. I’m thinly veiling that in fiction in my next book.
That feeling re-emerged during many visits to the movies, thereafter. I’ll tell you in time. But I must sneak in “The Great Lie” with Bette Davis and Mary Astor (1941). George Brent could have stayed missing and dead in the jungle. “Who every heard of an ounce of brandy!” That “Once Is Not Enough” movie feeling lingered on and on. Now you’re thinking, I’m another sorry sister who lives her life through movies. Not so. I don’t have any cats and even though I don’t date anymore (as you already know from previous entries) I have crazy, wild memories that people love to hear about when I chat around the fireside on the net. After all is said and done, you’ll be saying to yourself Paisley’s had a full life and not be wondering why I don’t date. I had to come up for air sometime. Plus, I participated in sports—yikes but not the college revelation sexual brouhaha. I was hip to my feelings long before that, but wasn’t conflicted by it. For the record I was never conflicted; nature took it's course and I did what I did as nature called me.
I went to the prom in high school with a guy and it was fine. We were an interracial couple. His father and stepmother were an interracial couple. I had a boyfriend in kindergarten. We were an interracial couple and would kiss in the police booth on the corner. We were too short and small to be seen. As it stands now, I have no connection to people of my past. I’m a realist—the masquerade is over and so is love. (Guess that song lyric…)
Do you every wonder what it would have been like to have Lana Turner as your woman?
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