DESCRIPTION
Angel Obregon submitted this for Victoria King who is operating without the Net in more ways than one. To start at the beginning - It was 6 AM on a Tuesday in a Greek after-hours joint. The place was deserted except for me and a spectacular 6'7" show girl. So, we started talking. It couldn't be helped. She's beautiful enough to make a bishop want to kick a hole in a stained glass window. (Raymond Chandler, eat your heart out.) And she had some strange stories to tell. I have to explain, try to explain, what I mean by strange. The girl was as smarter than I am and wise in the ways of worldliness, but she had no formal education. The story she's telling me is coming at me from an alien culture I hadn't known existed, even the narrative connections had a nightmare logic I had never heard before. It was the start of something new just when originality began to seem impossible. The language is stilted, there's a constant struggle for control of the words, for a dignified tone, but I find the awkwardness touching and I think it adds to the story. I've preserved as much of it as I could remember. Even so, something's lost. It's still a good story, but I guess you had to be there. I don't see how any story could live up to an intro like that, but here it is. And it's easy to score points off the woman if that's what you want to do. [Rated R]
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Victoria King is 6' 7" and blindingly beautiful. She has worked extensively as a director on Greek TV (kind of like Mexican TV only not as good). She has written twelve movie scripts for the local market. Five of them have received development grants from the European Script Fund. She is the author of a how-to relations manual called BI- AND BUY published in Greece and to be published in the US fall 2001. She lives in Athens and is operating without the Net in more ways than one. Angel Obregon is a Zen monk living in New York. [February 2000]
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (5) Bi And Buy -- Sex Self-Help (Non-fiction) Chapter 1. Covers some topics that a still touchy. For example - Women are bi-sexual and men never seem to know. It was different in the '70's, you didn't have to choose, you could have it all. Righ... [1,881 words] Judas Is A Good Kisser (Screenplays) - [16,084 words] Mexico City Confidential (Screenplays) This is a heist comedy like THE LAVENDER HILL MOB or THE LADYKILLERS. As well plotted as THE LAST SEDUCTION, but no where near as mean. It takes place in present day Mexioc City (of course). Eric Ambl... [26,955 words] Moonspender (Screenplays) Moonspender is underworld slang for someone who steals from museums and archeological digs. Big business in the Eastern Med. Developed through the support of the European Script Fund. [20,075 words] Stonemaiden (Screenplays) This is what 3rd World Cinema looks like and that's why we're justified in bombing them whenever we feel like it - Comedy, sexual exploitation, gratuitous violence, and the supernatural not only in th... [21,564 words]
READER'S REVIEWS (3) DISCLAIMER: STORYMANIA DOES NOT PROVIDE AND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIEWS. ALL REVIEWS ARE PROVIDED BY NON-ASSOCIATED VISITORS, REGARDLESS OF THE WAY THEY CALL THEMSELVES.
"Great storyline and cool dialogue. Micky Splane its not but the writer has the hook on the reader from the start and that's important.The "cut to's" and movie script notes can be deleted and won't hurt the story. Virgina has a keeper here. She sould take her characters into a full length novel. " -- A. Overmyer, Irvine, CA., USA.
"Is this suppose to be a screenplay or a short story? Either way, the plot is weak, and the characters even weaker. Numerous errors make the piece a labor." -- Greg Olson, New York, NY.
"awesome story. the whole storyline reads right. but, how does it end? the ending is cutoff. this would make a great script, if you cleaned it up." -- sunny, DC.
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