45: Get Me Rewrite!

Breaking some eggs, it's time to start smoking, another nugget from the psych hospital, some of the latest gnews, the undeniably awesome Shelley Duvall, suicide isn't painless, a screenwriting master, Alice doesn't live here anymore, screw the Kennedys, Charles Darwin and his natural selection of mail, three second acts and hoping for a third act, the mind-blowing Rubik's cube, the masterful Brian Eno, a forgotten horror movie, and long walks with the dearly missed Chris Cornell. Stuff mentioned: Billy Joel "I Go to Extremes" (1989), Billy Joel Storm Front (1989), Happy Days "Hollywood: Part 3" (Season 5/Episode 3, September 20, 1977 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO0D0jF83lc), Detour (1945), The Great Space Coaster (1981-1986), Brewster McCloud (1970), M*A*S*H (1970), Johnny Mandel (music) and Michael Altman (lyrics) "Suicide is Painless/Theme from M*A*S*H" (1970), Popeye (1980), Popeye Village Malta (https://popeyemalta.com), The Shining (1980), Chinatown (1974), Shampoo (1975), The Two Jakes (1990), Sam Wasson The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (2020), Maureen Callahan Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed (2024), Elizabeth Beller Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (2024), Brian Eno Here Come the Warm Jets (1974), Eno (2024), Alcatraz East Crime Museum (https://www.alcatrazeast.com), Bad Dreams (1988), The Chambers Brothers "Time Has Come Today" (1967), The Electric Prunes "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" (1966), Sid Vicious "My Way" (1978), Andrew Wyeth "Christina's World" (1948 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78455), Chris Cornell "Follow My Way" (1999), Chris Cornell Euphoria Morning (1999), Soundgarden "The Day I Tried To Live" (1994), and Soundgarden Superunknown (1994).