{"id":2079,"date":"2012-04-12T22:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=2079"},"modified":"2012-04-12T22:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T10:00:06","slug":"goodbye-my-feleni-the-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/goodbye-my-feleni-the-director\/","title":{"rendered":"GOODBYE MY FELENI:  The Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"scrippet\">\n<p class=\"sceneheader\">INT. KEEP, FORTRESS MAMEA &#8211; NIGHT<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">Our WRITER hunches over his desk, fingers flying over his KEYBOARD, head bopping to Charlie Parker.  A particularly intense buzz of typing and he squints at his MONITOR &#45;&#45;<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">ON MONITOR where a page count shows &#8220;12&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">WRITER<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Yeah, baby!<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">His CELLPHONE vibrates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">ON CELLPHONE which shows &#8220;New txt from Producer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">He snatches up his cell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">ON CELLPHONE &#8211; &#8220;You have a Director.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">Our Writer&#8217;s brow furrows as &#45;&#45;<\/p>\n<p class=\"transition\">CUT TO:<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">FLASHBACK &#8211; INT. 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