Many of you know I published a memoir a while back about my stint as a script coordinator in the film and TV biz in Montreal. Here’s a free peek at the Table of Contents! 🙂

Prologue

Part One: Falling into the Biz

• The first time
• Okay, so what does a script coordinator do, anyway?
• Rainbow revisions
• Meeting the director
• And you get a script, and you get a script, and you…
• First set visit

Part Two: Are You Afraid of the Dark?

• The challenge
• Backstories and stories

 Part Three: Allegro Films

• Screamers: No, I am not a script “typist”!
• The software from hell
• A note about working conditions
• A glitch in time…

Part Four: Kids in Orbit

• The trouble with David
• The launch of Season Two
• Valri
• Script dizziness
• Good-bye to all that

Part Five: The Prisoner – A Willing Captive

• Getting hired
• Meeting “Number Six”
• The Prisoner cult
• Patrick the perfectionist
• Revelations at the Ritz
• California Dreaming Part I – Carmel
• California Dreaming Part II – Family, food and work
• California Dreaming Part III – Pebble Beach
• California Dreaming Part IV – Winding down
• Afterword

Part Six: The Hunger

• Our driver has no car!
• The beginning
• Surviving with humour
• Table reads – making myself useful
• Writers – a sensitive bunch
• The job jar
• Second season shenanigans, featuring Tony Scott
• Spoilers
• One nice thing
• The Hunger ends

Part Seven: Dark Days

• Bette Midler’s defeat – and mine
• The Ultimate horror
• Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale – the Scriptmeister’s lament
• Secret Agent Man – A new definition of “crazy”
• I am pinched by the Winch

Part Eight: The Planets Are Aligned

• Loss of Faith (aka The Truth About Lying)
• Heist – Mamet moments
• Jackie O.
• Sherlock Holmes!
• Caillou’s Corner
• Cirque du Soleil

Part Nine: Extras

• Minis
• Docs
• Productions françaises
• Script critiques
• One-offs
• A quick word about star power

Part Ten: Fade to Black

• End of an era
• Fade out
• So you want to be a script coordinator?
• Goodbye gifts

Appendix

• Filmography
• Script Lore – The Mystery of A & B Pages
• The Prisoner Ethos
• My Note re Prisoner Script Scene Headings
• Photos from my Prisoner sojourn with Patrick McGoohan
  

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