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JulieMallen Member	posted 03-27-2001 03:48 PM HE >>>>>>MAN!!!! I say you are THE man!>>>>>>> ;-0 Who am I to be so blessed to have the privledge to read and to correspond with such a gifted writer???! You have truely been blessed from above with a calling to bring to life and light the injustices of mankind. I admire you greatly and am humbled by your work. That speaks to the heart of man and will not allow those who come in contact with your work to walk away untouched. Where...How can I begin to tell you? From silly words like... " A woman is like a cat you never know if she will sit on your lap and purr or scratch your eyes out" To the profound words of truth that peirce the soul... " What are fences? It was fences that made us go to war" One who reads you can not ignore the spirit of truth that guides your steps. I could go on and on and plan to in an e-mail to you. But I wanted to state to all that reads here. Remember this mans name for this man is one of the great ones.>>>>> A man of truth with the gift of tongue. You leave me inspired and blessed to have the honor of reading your work. Much Admiration~ Julie ;-) IP: Logged
uhuru1701 Member	posted 03-27-2001 04:22 PM Hi Julie. You make me want to read what this guy has written. PEACE, uhuru1701 IP: Logged
andejl00 Junior Member	posted 03-27-2001 06:07 PM Hey Julie Mallen! Where have you been?? I've lost your e-mail and your nephew's number and I've moved! I want to get in touch. What happened to our screenplay? Write me at Jen102@aol.com as soon as you can! Talk soon Jen IP: Logged
kpholl Member	posted 03-27-2001 08:04 PM Julie, you have such a way with words. I concur about dleonetti's script. It is awesome. Karen IP: Logged
JulieMallen Member	posted 03-27-2001 08:44 PM Karen thank you so much for concurring!>>> he touches my soul. I must say disturbing though to read at times but the truth is always painful! God has truly touched this man with great talent to tell a tale!>>>>>>> Big Bump for the gifted one! I feel like the proud mom! <LOL ;-) UHURU<<<<< My dear how are you??? DELEONETTI he is one that you will hear many times said of him... MUST READ!>>>>>>>> Little Jen!!!>>>>>> Christopher tried to call you at your mom's. I still have the screen writing book you loaned me! I am the type that goes crazy if I owe someone a cup of sugar!!! Aaaaaaaaah! ;-0 I lost your e-mail address but I have it now. I will write you here in a few minutes! ;-) IP: Logged
Pickel87 Member	posted 03-27-2001 08:52 PM WOODPECKER WALTZ An Oscar nomination for sure! This screenplay is powerful. A real life story of Injustice A mans life was taken, but HIS STORY LIVES ON delonetti wrote a script that will touch your heart... Pickel loves this script. IP: Logged
JulieMallen Member	posted 03-27-2001 09:10 PM THE WOODPECKER WALTZ WAS JUST THE BEGINING!>> <<<<<<THE MAN WHO KILLED CUSTER>>>>>>>> iS GOING TO BE RIGHT THERE WITH IT AS WELL BABY!!! '-) Pickel my dear you do know true talent!>>>>> ;-) IP: Logged
JulieMallen Member	posted 03-27-2001 09:41 PM BUMPIN FOR DELEONETTI!>>>>>>>>>>>>>> '-) IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-27-2001 11:15 PM JulieM: Thank you for the great statements. I believe that my screenplays will come out of Greenlight with the possiblility of enduring in film. I put my heart into the stories. My blood, my heritage, my dreams. I e-mailed your statement about the Man Who Killed Custer to my producer and he demanded the script tonight, because of your passion for the story. Hell, I wanted to keep it for myself since I have contracts on the other ones. No more bitterness for Greenlight. I have to rock the world with my stories! IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-27-2001 11:21 PM Pickel: my friend, she wasn't even talking about Woodpecker, but another script that i wrote called The Man Who Killed Custer. It will break your heart, and Woodpecker will too. I don't know which one I love more? They are like my children. . . IP: Logged
julie Member	posted 03-27-2001 11:30 PM Are those scripts in the PGL archive? IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-27-2001 11:40 PM Julie: No, my producer told me to yank them out of Greenlight. I had a score of 5 % out of 100%. Broke my heart in Greenlight. Talented writers went down in the first round. But now we can go. . . You can read both of my stories at www.wordsfromhere.com IP: Logged
julie Member	posted 03-27-2001 11:45 PM excellent I will read them. I see that The Woodpecker Waltz is under thriller and The Man Who Killed Custer is under Horror. I like those types of stories...anything dark. Thanks. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-28-2001 12:08 AM Julie: No. The Man Who Killed Custer is not horror, but a semi-Western, though the real and true Sand Creek Massacre could be called horror. US Army, under Colonel John Chivington, massacred 150 old men,women and children at Sand Creek, Colorado. Butchered them. The women were raped, babies cut out of their wombs, women's breasts removed to make tobacco pouches, heads cut off to perch on sabers, etc. This story tells the truth of what it cost to settle the American West. This is one of my favorite screenplays, because it has truth in every page. . . IP: Logged
julie Member	posted 03-28-2001 12:20 AM Ok yes I see that I am 20 pages in right now and I can not read another word because I have to go to sleep. Did you happen to talk to native americans in the research for this script? Have any read and critiqued it? IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-28-2001 12:29 AM I have some Native American blood. And the Cheyenne teach this screenplay in their schools at the Oklahoma reservation. I have many friends there, and a mother too, who adopted me, and she is the great granddaughter of Black Kettle, a peace chief of the Cheyenne, killed by Custer at the Washita River in Oklahoma. He loved nothing but peace. He put up an American flag that they gave him to protect his people, but the Colorado Militia attacked and massacred his people anyway. Often, I go to Sand Creek to pray. . . and burn sacred sage. . . IP: Logged
julie Member	posted 03-28-2001 12:33 AM Alright I think this script will make me cry. I am half Seneca Indian and I can already feel the tears welling up. I definately will go to sleep now and finish reading this tomorrow. I will tell you what I think ok? IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-28-2001 12:33 AM Julie: Woodpecker will probably make my career, but The Man Who Killed Custer is my favorite piece. I have three other screenplays who are just as good, I think. They want one for Showtime, but it needs rewrites. Woodpecker is the talk of the town right now. . . IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-28-2001 07:26 AM You guys fired me up! I had too many Bud Lights last night during dart league, and was overly responsive with optimism. . .sorry for that, but I think my stories on film will reach down and touch humanity and make it just a little better. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-28-2001 05:12 PM Julie, do you finish Custer? If so, what do you think? IP: Logged
julie Member	posted 03-28-2001 05:19 PM I have to tell you I am about half way through. When reading your script I find myself re-reading some of it over and over. You know when you like a part you don't want to get past, so you stay and savor it. Well so far this is so good I have to tell you. I have not finished but by later tonight I will have. I suspect you already know how good this script is. I am positive I could only give feedback praising your work. Believe me I am looking for things to criticize. When I am finished should I click on the email to your name so I can tell you what I think and felt? IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-28-2001 05:59 PM Sure Julie. I wanted to lift the story above the Western genre. IP: Logged
julie Member	posted 03-28-2001 08:07 PM "I walked the path of many years, but the sun was in my eyes. I know nothing." That is damn close to brilliant deleonetti, infact it is. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-28-2001 11:39 PM Hope you like the screenplay. I see you are halfway into it. Sand Creek (coming up) has been designated a National Historical Site by the US Senate, and now it can be a place for healing and prayer. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 03-31-2001 03:38 PM Bump for Julie's review. IP: Logged
FutureMrs.Affleck Member	posted 03-31-2001 03:42 PM dleonetti, I already created a thread about this (but it's on page 5 or something), but I read your screenplay (Woodpecker Waltz) and thought it was brilliant. I just wanted to let you know that I'm glad you're becoming a great success because you deserve it. Good luck in everything! IP: Logged
Pickel87 Member	posted 03-31-2001 03:59 PM quote: Originally posted by dleonetti: I have some Native American blood. And the Cheyenne teach this screenplay in their schools at the Oklahoma reservation. I have many friends there, and a mother too, who adopted me, and she is the great granddaughter of Black Kettle, a peace chief of the Cheyenne, killed by Custer at the Washita River in Oklahoma. He loved nothing but peace. He put up an American flag that they gave him to protect his people, but the Colorado Militia attacked and massacred his people anyway. Often, I go to Sand Creek to pray. . . and burn sacred sage. . . delonetti, we have too many things in common - this is beginning to scare me. I lived in Idabel Oklahoma once. Remember that Red River and trying to cross it when it rained. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 04-01-2001 10:19 AM Bump for julie's review and Pickel's red river. IP: Logged
Pickel87 Member	posted 04-01-2001 04:58 PM ah delonetti would you mind re-phrasing that good buddy..... IP: Logged
julie Member	posted 04-01-2001 05:30 PM Dleonetti your writing is captivating and I am certain all who read it will feel the intense range of emotion that you intended. Gato, I was endeared to him from the moment he acted all cantankerous. Loved him when he stood naked amongst the ant beds, I knew he was a man with common sense, but how funny, because the vision of that seems so loopy. I laughed when you wrote, "But he came to love Emma Catty. And she loved that clock". It was bittersweet because she was with him on borrowed time. Things as snowflakes likened to gunmetal...such a clash, so beautifully done. Star in the Sky and Gato had such a deeply respectful relationship born from admiration of each other and grew to a love that cowboys and indians aren't suppose to have much less voice. But actions speak louder then words. Lame girl showed me how a strong spirit is not killed even when the body can no longer endure. She was more then one. You showed me Chivington with his band, his loud thirst for grandeur. Juan was powerful to me, came along, nourished the bellies but really the heart. He saw it all, and went back home to reflect in his own way. When a young boy crumples Gato's autograph, you showed me how for the next generations, people would rather hear the glorified cowboy stories rather then the truth. Yet later you sublimely give hope through King Arthur's son. "The Man Who Killed Custer", is filled with specific imagary and superb dialogue, dleonetti, I loved it. Through your writing you told me of an untainted ehtereal spirit inspite of a blood stained existence. FANTASTIC. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 04-01-2001 08:06 PM Julie: You hit dead on the target. What you said, is what I tried to accomplish. The ant scene and the Army wandering lost on the plains was to show how the Army was ineffective in the field, didn't know anything, and was composed of boys and Immigrants that never had no quarrel with Indians. The army enlists these kind of people to fight their Vietnams. The lice was a reversal of the idea that Indians had lice. Not so. Indians bathed in every creek and river that they crossed on their myriad paths. I wanted to turn that phrase around. Most likely, the Anglo had lice for he didn't know how to survive in those kind of environements. The Indians were finally conquered when General Crook came up with the idea of using Indian scouts to catch Indian tribes. It worked. The Crows found the Sioux; the Apache found the APache, etc. . . The genocide of the Native Americans was just as bad as the genocide of the Jewish people in Hitler's time of madness. Our history is not clean and simple in our time of madness. We have sins that need to be addressed. I don't want people to forget this. Yes, the clock was a symbol for time fleeing, and the Buffalo is a symbol for hope and all that has been lost in our past. Billy represents our future, and he finally comes to terms with the whole complex issue of history. He is a part of it now. We are all a part of it. Pickel: Hope I didn't offend you about the Red River? I don't know much about it except that the boy in Lonesome Dove was bit by rattlesnakes when he tried to cross it, and John Wesley Hardin, the Gunfighter from Texas, killed three Mexicans at the Red River in a vicious gunfight over Texas cattle. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 04-01-2001 08:10 PM Julie, forgot. . .I would like to invite you to read screenplays at wordsfromhere for us in searching for the best ones. I would like to submit these screenplays to production companies when we can find a method of choosing the best ones. You would make a great reviewer for us. Writers reviewing other writers doesn't seem to work. We need some sort of independent look at these screenplays. IP: Logged
julie Member	posted 04-01-2001 08:58 PM Okay. You know when I was reading "The Man Who Killed Custer", my dog Bella kept checking on me because her keen sense picked up the strong emotions your script evoked. Next I will read "Woodpecker Waltz" and if you say this is even better, you must be very proud of yourself. Because this is good writing. I did not check out the entire website of wordsfromhere, I went straight to your script. So I will check it out and do as you ask in reviewing. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 04-01-2001 09:12 PM I just got off the phone with my producer, and he said nobody is doing anything in Hollywood because of the impending writer's strike. Woodpecker has been optioned to his company, and he is shopping it to three prominent directors. Nobody wants to commit to anything. He said there is talk that the writers might push their deadline to match the actor's strike in June or July (I forgot which month he said) to give them more weight. This thing could really hurt everybody. We are working on a MOW or miniseries (Not established yet) on a best selling true crime story. I'll co-produce, do the story treatment angle and possibly the screenplay???? Yet, again, talk has slowed on this project as well. So we will continue developing until this mess is over. . .If you want to review contact Stiles at www.wordsfromhere.com and tell him I asked you to be a reviewer. I am going to submit a screenplay from Community Screenplay to a company in the near future. I think it has potential to be developed into a pretty good comedy. IP: Logged
JulieMallen Member	posted 04-01-2001 09:30 PM Bump!>>>>>>>>>>>> ;-) IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 04-01-2001 09:45 PM JulieM! Where you been? IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 04-02-2001 11:07 AM Bump for the other Julie IP: Logged
julie Member	posted 04-02-2001 06:05 PM dleonetti, I saw a few different ways to review. One calls for an ID name, but you tell me to contact Stiles? Which is the preferred method? I have just this minute finished printing out Woodpecker Waltz, I noticed you had some photos on the site. I am going to read it now, but sometimes my reply is not swift. I also am going to click on that email button at wordsfromhere to tell you something about Custard...cool? Cool. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 04-02-2001 06:43 PM Cool. Woodpecker has a outlet to get made. Custer doesn't at this time. You can join up with us and register at wordsfromhere. Or you can contact Siles too, at www.wordsfromhere.com He is going to have a contest soon. And I am going to submit good screenplays. IP: Logged
dleonetti Member	posted 04-02-2001 07:16 PM Julie: That e=mail button is probably for wordsfromhere site. My e-mail is dleonet@activematrix.net I like your ability to review with percision and sensibility! IP: Logged

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