Potpourri: The Ever-Loving Wheels Come Off! (Hilliard Guess and many more!)
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Welcome to the first episode of The Hollywood Fishbowl that goes beyond “conversation” and teeters into “soiree” territory. First, we catch up with Fishbowl Alumn Hilliard Guess who is now a writer on the hit SyFy show Deadly Class. If you listen to his original episode (found in our Storytelling series) and then watch some Deadly Class, you’ll be celebrating his success just as enthusiastically as I am. Why? Listen and you’ll know. Then, we do something unprecedented on The Fishbowl. We go into speed rounds with heaps of new guests and a returning fan favorite. Next week, we’ll be back with a more regular series. Until then, thank you always for listening!
Season 02 Episode 11
Potpourri: The Ever-Loving Wheels Come Off!
Recorded on Various Dates
Released on March 19, 2019
Episode Duration: 01:17:13
Hilliard Guess can be found on Instagram @hilliardguess.
Darling Alley Cat can be found on Instagram @darlingalleycat.
Faye Tal Curves can be found on Instagram @fayetalcurves.
Genevieve Dixon can be found on Instagram @genevieveinflight.
Vixen DeVille can be found on Instagram @vixencatvixen.
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Storytelling: Kathie Fong Yoneda Has Had Her Feet On Every Rung Of The Ladder
Kathie Fong Yoneda has climbed from typist to executive but didn’t do so in a straight line (because there is no such thing as a straight line when it comes to life). Exactly how does an early interest in journalism and art lead to top-level employment at major studios? We’d answer that but Kathie does so better than we ever could.
One of the common themes among our guests is empathy. While this isn’t a competition, Kathie was the first guest to ask about Neo’s wellbeing after he finished fighting Morpheus. So, that’s where the bar is now, future guests. From there, the conversation takes off, touching on community college, art, journalism, affirmative action, and storytelling. Specifically, we focus on how to think about storytelling when addressing executives. How do you best package an idea for studios? How do you rework a project for pitch and for sale? All that and more on this episode of The Hollywood Fishbowl!
Storytelling: Hilliard Guess Has Game, Shares Game
Hilliard Guess can pinpoint the exact moment he became a writer. It was when he started writing. Of course, no story is so simple and few are this well told. As always, thank you for listening.
Hilliard Guess knows his way around a microphone. And a podcast. And a writers room. And a screenplay. And a film set. And a stage. So, where do you even start the interview? We start at the relationships he cultivated with the local skinheads (Neo-Nazi and traditional) growing up in the ‘hood, as a gay, black kid in the 80s Mod/Rudeboy/Punk Scene. From there, we wind our way into the writers room with a torrent of gold wisdom on how to navigate that environment. Our belated arrival at the fishbowl gives us solid three-act structure with the pulls Baby Writers, Autobiographies and Death.
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Season 01 Episode 11
Hilliard Guess Has Game, Shares Game
Recorded on July 8, 2018
Released on July 17, 2018
Episode Duration: 01:12:11
Hilliard Guess can be found on Twitter @hilliardguess & @screenwritersRR, and on the web at https://www.patreon.com/ScreenwritersRantRoom
Hollywood Fishbowl can be found on Instagram and Twitter @HWFishbowl and at www.sunshinepicturesllc.com/hwfishbowl