John Oak Dalton

"Not 'Hollywood Independent' - writer John Oak Dalton is the real Real Thing." --Cinema Minima."Very weird and unpopular b-movies and comics."--Blogalicious. "After watching the film I am left to wonder if he had some childhood trauma he is not telling us about."--IMDB user review. "Screenwriter John Oak Dalton wanted to be in Hollywood. Instead, he's in the rustic kitchen above the Germania General Store, stirring a pot of boiling hot dogs." --The Harrisburg Patriot-News.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Spring Break 1987

Twenty years ago this month I won the first David Letterman Telecommunications Scholarship given to a screenwriter. Back then the award consisted of a collapsible cup, a sponge, a baseball cap, a big check, and VIP tickets to the show. So that spring break my pregnant wife and I climbed into our 1980 Mercury Monarch and headed out. My daughter leaves on her Senior Trip to New York tomorrow, her first time out of the womb but her second trip overall. And so it goes.