Five or six years ago I started up a writer’s group in New York City, with the goal of getting regular feedback on my early pages of [i]Finders Keepers[/i]. I put up an ad on Craiglist and interviewed about a hundred writers until I settled on the four would ultimately join the group.
We met once a week, reading and critiquing each other’s work. We were all at different skill levels and wrote n different styles, which, at the time, I thought was a good idea. Ultimately, however, the group Five or six years ago I started up a writer’s group in New York City, with the goal of getting regular feedback on my early pages of [i]Finders Keepers[/i]. I put up an ad on Craiglist and interviewed about a hundred writers until I settled on the four would ultimately join the group.
We met once a week, reading and critiquing each other’s work. We were all at different skill levels and wrote n different styles, which, at the time, I thought was a good idea. Ultimately, however, the group did not work out for various reason, and it broke up within six months. Such is life.
But one of the writers in this group–Robert Cabell–was working on an outlandish adventure story based on the James Bond series. Only the lead character was a gay hair dresser who also battled evil corporations. The name of the character was Jayms Blonde. The writing needed polish, but Robert had a funny idea that had potential if executed well.
Well, check this out from today’s news.
Crazy.
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(from the NY Daily News)
The creator of a gay comic book hero accused Adam Sandler Monday of ripping off his idea for a blow-dried public avenger and turning it into "You Don’t Mess with the Zohan."
Author Robert Cabell sued Sandler, Happy Madison Productions, Sony and Columbia Pictures for copyright infringement in Manhattan Federal Court.
Cabell says "Zohan" steals from his "Hair-Raising Adventures of Jayms Blonde" comic book series.
"He’s gorgeous, he’s gay, he makes the bad guys pay," Cabell boasts on a Web site plugging his adventure hero. Cabell says he created Jayms Blonde in 2000 and published the first story on the Internet two years later.
It chronicles a former Navy SEAL-turned-hairdresser out to get corporate evildoers armed with an Uzi-style blow-dryer.
Cabell says he pitched Columbia on the idea of a Jayms Blonde movie in Los Angeles in the fall of 2007, around the same time Sandler was filming a "Zohan" disco scene nearby.
In the movie, Sandler plays an Israeli special forces officer who fakes his death and takes a job as a New York City hairdresser.
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