Details like that are not about to promote products, but I thought telling about Dr. Stoddart having a Brioni three-piece suit, for example, was to convey status, wealth and arrogance. I also had character Champagne having «Black Jesus Bag» because she is a Catholic, and a lot of black people in America see Jesus as a black figure, not a white one comparing to Europeans. So, I put that in there, too.

Some time ago, I wrote a book called «We have our difference in common», which contains 300 witticisms. I got that from my dad. My father was a chemistry major, but he was even better at turning the phrase. Growing up, he did most of the talking, and I did most of the listening, so I credit him for that. He never dropped an F-bomb in his life, even on the golf course. His favorite witticisms, and expletives were "shit", and "goddamit all Brian", even though he was an atheist. Quick comebacks between characters are coming from my education from UCLA, I had a scholarship there, and they called it «Ping Pong dialog». I saw character’s dialogs as they were playing ping pong between each other.

A former Indiana U. (Mark Spitz's alma mater) US Open qualifying swimmer from 1977, in 1986 at 26 Brian left Attleboro, MA for Los Angeles. While professional aspirations foundered, creative ones did not. He cartoons and writes dour witticisms. His disdain for festive advice givers offers pessimistic readers laughter amid their travails. Brian's work seeks identification with like minded gadflies with histories of substance abuse, support groups or psych ward travesty. He relays across, not down to interested readers. His screenplay is called Just Like You: "My screenplay features Wanda Long in a psych ward saga after a suicide attempt." His log-line is this: As a bawdy inpatient protests clinical mental illness branding her body is scammed for rape drug marketing by a syndicate whose fiscal architect doubles as the ward’s fabled Chief of Psychiatry.

I rearranged the order of the script. It had been in a chronological order at first, but people thought I needed to kick start the script quicker, so I started it with Wanda’s suicide attempt. There are a few flashbacks, but it is a character-driven story more than a plot driven one. So I thought they (flashbacks) were important to include. The inciting incident usually starts at page 12-13, but I started the script with it.

Well, Linda, and Wanda didn’t know that the cop was in cahoots with Stoddard, so they never turned him in.

Well, there is a Landersman Petris Short Act is a California code for people who want to get out, they get a chance to a hearing, so I included that. And Wanda’s representative kept referring to her as «The Patient», like objectifying her, and Dr. Stoddard comes in and says «Wanda has an aversion to DSM diagnosis», diagnostically and statistical mental disorder. Wanda says «Yes», he says «Wanda has an aversion to taking medicine», she goes «Yes», he goes «Wanda needs to be in the hospital for the duration of her stay in a controlled environment», and she says «Absolutely false». And then on of the characters says «the patient will remain for the remain of her stay at hospitable hospital», and Wanda says «Objection», like in a court. Like a verdict.

Not that related to my story, but there is a conspiracy theory about the HIV/AIDS virus that in 1987 Peter Dooseberg was a epidemiologist, and he wrote a paper called «The Inventing of the AIDS virus». So, according to Dooseberg, the drug anal trade, which was used by homosexual men, and the drug was activating the immunity codes which are triggered by HIV.

Inventing the AIDS Virus is a 1996 book by molecular biologist Peter Duesberg, in which the author argues that HIV does not cause AIDS. Duesberg contends that HIV is a harmless passenger virus and that AIDS is caused by unrelated factors such as drug abuse, antiretroviral medication, chronic malnutrition, poor sanitation, and hemophilia. The unambiguous scientific consensus is that HIV causes AIDS and that Duesberg's claims are incorrect. Duesberg received a negative response from the scientific community for supporting AIDS denialism, misrepresenting and ignoring the scientific evidence that HIV causes AIDS, and for relying upon poor logic and manipulation. The book was also the subject of an authorship dispute with one of his graduate students.

I don’t think it’s intentionally done, but I think that a lot of the drugs that are used on patients are unnecessary. So there is an ideological clash between Ms. Marvelle holistic psychologist, and Dr. Stoddard, who is a psychiatrist, is on top of the food chain in mental health. I think that it should be reverse, because psychologists, who deal with the actual issues, produce symptoms addressed by drugs.

I have something now, it’s short, and I am entering the contest next month. It’s called «Blood of Christ», it’s about a catholic father who is trying to indoctrinate his atheist son into the world of drinking, but feuds develop over what constitutes drugs and drug abuse. I am trying to write a script that brings alcohol, and identifies it as a drug instead of something separate from illicit drugs. I am working on that right now.

I wrote a script, and gave it to Wanda, when her parents visited her. She said: «Dad got mad when we lied to him? No. Dad got mad, THEN we lied to him». I think if the parents don’t scare their children, then children would not have to lie to them. A lot of children are fearful and they become liars as adults. Because they are intimidated by parents sometimes. I think they should be less fearful with their parents, and they be more inclined to be sincere and frank, especially if the penalties weren’t so severe. I think it feeds itself.