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As you doubtless know, screenwriters like myself are standing on the precipice of the future. We hold in our hands, as well as our hearts, the key to the door that makes the future a better place for the young and the old, the black and the white.

I myself have enjoyed the unlocking and opening of this door with the production and theatrical release of sixteen of my feature film screenplays. I've seen my dreams realized in deft strokes of light by such masters as Spielberg, Demme and Bogdonovitch, my characters breathed into being by Nicholson, Streep, Roberts and Spader. I've been nominated for the Academy Award twice in my career. I've won two Emmys and a Jeff Award. My last screenplay sold for 1.3 million dollars.

But you know this already. And I know that you know.

Because never could have I done it alone.

So now, as I enter a new stage in my career, I turn to you, industry key players and citizens of greater Los Angeles. I need you to put your heads together and decide what the world needs more: A "dollar bill" dramady called "Stop That Monkey" or an eleven act prestige drama about my father's personal struggle with MS?

I know what you're thinking. Why not do both? Well, maybe I will. But if you know anything about me, you know that my writing process is incredibly grueling. Not only do I think act, speak and shop like every one of my characters, I go so far as to have my family behave the same way. We sometimes live entire weeks in the world of my latest screenplay. This is why projects must be made one at a time.

BUT LOOK AT THE TIMES WE'RE LIVING IN! We're on the brink of economic collapse, war with Iraq and a Republican coup! Our country needs. And I, again, have something to give.

My first idea is "Stop That Monkey." It's to be written in what's called a "dollar bill" style, wherein several stories are stitched together with clever, unique and/or hilarious devise (commonly, we follow a dollar bill in circulation). In this case, that devise will be monkeys.

The film takes place in Fargo. Not Fargo itself because that's been done, but just like Fargo. Uniquely Midwestern. Think Denise Richards in "American Beauty Show."

Circus comes to town. Summer festival type thing. Big to-do in Fargo, you know, where there's not much going on.

Trucks rumble in a bright, dusty morning. The tent's being set up by grunts, the patriarchic acrobat is reading the paper, a gypsy child dances along the fence. And then, the monkeys escape. We follow them into and out of various scenes in this town. Each scene, of course, ends with a character screaming, "Stop that monkey!"

The scenes will be Oscar quality. The star power high. Altman would direct if he hadn't already done Short Cuts, so Ridley Scott'll give it a go if he's free. But if we want him, we have to move on it quick. The ending will be everyone chasing the monkeys down a certain, famous San Fernando Valley highway.

Is this the kind of movie you think the world needs, click HERE.

The second piece of my sacred self is called "Mostly Sam." It's the story of one man's battle against MS. "Mostly Sam" is inspired by real events.

The character "Sam," is based on my Father Sam Hilyard, producer of the Frank Sinatra classic "Van Ryan's Express". The film looks at his later years, living with his life-long partner and soul mate Saul David. If you think the character of Saul David should be portrayed by a woman, click HERE; a man, click HERE.

The story begins when Sam learns he has MS until his funeral 31 years later. The title comes from a line of dialogue spoken by Sam 3/5th of the way through the movie. When the Saul David character says, "Hey, your still Sam." Sam replies, "Mostly."

The movie is in the classic eleven act structure in homage to such Hollywood classics as "Room at the Top" and "How to Marry a Millionaire." Nicolas Cage has expressed interest in the character of Sam age 46.

If this is the kind of movie you think the world needs, click HERE.

Thank you so very much. Your participation in this process reveals that your character is of the quality that makes the world a better place. How? By opening yourself TO IT (the world), giving your ideas, feeding the burning fires (of my ideas). You proved yourselves genius by finding your way to this Eden by way of Propaganda's maze. You've proven yourselves worthy of genius by delivering your precious thoughts while you were here.

And*CUT (back to the movie you were in before you landed in this one)!