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NOTE: Apparently this webpage has some glitches. It tends to randomly switch out visual material.  Why?  Don't ask me.  So, if a pic doesn't match the text...it doesn't!  Rest assured I am trying to amend this problem.  When I get around to it.

*(may contain misuse of apostrophes, miss spellings, overabundance of semi-colons,  wrong word usage, etc.
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​ALSO: 
Please find an in-complete (or if you prefer; "ongoing") index of blog posts on the homepage, for your convenience!

AND YET ANOTHER NOTE:
The visual switcheroos on these blogs have reached a point where there's no way I can correct them all, so I'm just going to leave them be.  If they don't match the text, just think of them as whimsical funsies decorating the text.  I will continue to supply pictures; but I cannot guarantee their context: much like my mind.
Thank you for your patience!

A FURTHER NOTE:
I try to keep this website relatively free of anything truly morally reprehensible or obscene.  However, in the pursuit of honesty; I will be quite frank about sexuality; as I feel one should be.  To  wit: this website is not for children.  It is decidedly "adult"; although not necessarily not "childish."  I do not feel it is suitable, in some instances, for anyone below the age of 17.  Or maybe a very mature 16...or 15 even.  
THIS WEBSITE IS RATED: PG-15

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HEARTFIGHT: A Screenplay. The Complete Script.

8/6/2023

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So, here it is.  The final script of HEARTFIGHT.  When I proposed this project last November, I was sure I would finish it. There's just one teensy problem.  It's 300 pages long!  That would make for a five hour movie.  Or two, two and a half hour movies.  Which is feasible.  Many recent films have been split into two parts; but they were usually the franchise finales.  Why is HEARTFIGHT 300 pages long?  I really don't know.  I mean, I knew it was going to be a wee bit on the longer side...but 300 pages?  Actually, for that length, I think narratively it hangs pretty tight.  But perhaps this material might lend itself better, at this point, to TV series.  A limited one, with five pre-written episodes.  Or maybe an ongoing one?  This story does have a bit of the soap-opera vibe going on; which to me is a good thing (even though critics are always putting down "soap-opera-ishness").  But what is the Rocky saga if not an ongoing soap set in the world of boxing?  And people LOVE it!
And please don't misconstrue that length.  I'm not saying my storytelling is so great that it needs 300 pages to be told.  I think, perhaps, maybe this wanted to be a novel all along?  Who knows.  In any event...
​Here is the finished script.
Oh, here's something that I learned.  I...use...ellipses...waaaaaaay too much--and dashes--so; I cleaned up a lot of those.  They're still in there, but now with 75% less!
​Hope you enjoy.
CFR  8/6/23
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    Christopher Reidy is from the Boston area.  He attended Boston University where he studied TV and film which eventually led him to Los Angeles.  There he did the Hollywood thing (which he wasn’t particularly good at) and eventually met his partner Joseph.  He was one of the co-founders of the short lived Off Hollywood Theatre Company which staged several of his original plays.  83 In the Shade is his first novel.  He also dabbles in screenplays, toys with short stories, and flirts with poetry.  Life brought him to bucolic Southwest Virginia where he now resides and is very active in community theatre. It may interest you to know Chris is officially an Irish citizen as well as an American. He also enjoys drawing and painting and looking after a passel of 
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    housecats and two turtles.