Working on a Dream / More Good Reviews

Tonight I was very moved by Bruce Springsteen's performance on the Daily Show of his song, "Working on a Dream."  It is a simple song that resonates with many, I'm sure, and certainly with me as we build BlueRun Productions, and get Of Kings & Cowboys on its proverbial feet.  Click the picture of the CD to read the lyrics.

That plain truth of the spirit that tirelessly works on a dream is what sustains me.  It is in the "Ride on" I write at the end of each entry.  Launching an expensive independent feature film, and it being my first film to direct, is a big undertaking.  Doing in the middle of this economic scare-down is monstrous.  But we keep riding on.  Of Kings & Cowboys in my humble opinion, is just too good of a story to be missed.  There is too great of an opportunity here to really make a difference, to show us our deeper decency and the power of our better angels...beyond showing the world the elegance, beauty and power of polo.  It is a story that needs to be told.

As Bruce said in the interview, people gravitate toward the storytellers, especially in stressful times like these.  Though our first films will be released months after this recession ends, I hope they nevertheless are the type of uplifting stories that make a difference.  Even Russian Warmblood, our other film in the hopper (click icon in right column), though terribly tragic, it is timeless and pure, romantic, uplifting in its humanity and spirituality...or so it is to me, and I think will be to millions of others.

I wonder, you 1500+ subscribers to this blog...what dreams are you working on?  The older I get, the more I realize the deep truth of the simple quotes and sayings that we've heard all our lives, and especially sayings along the lines of "Failure only occurs when you fail to get back up."  During my first 30 years, I really didn't understand the power of that kind of thinking.  I rarely if ever failed.  Not really.  It was up up up.  But during my 30s, as I began to seriously pursue my dreams, my life's work...well, I started finding myself in a new position:  face down in the dirt.  But I survived, and grew.  I got back up.  And now at 44, launching my biggest dream and life calling:  BlueRun and this film, Of Kings & Cowboys, I gotta say I have a PhD in the Weeble-Wobble philosophy.  Perhaps you do to.

One more note, we've had some more reviews of the script come in, and I've posted them under Script Reviews (click here or top left).  If you haven't read them lately, I hope you will.  And I must tell you of one other that isn't listed there.  I have been struggling to get the script to a certain major actor, and if you know anything about the biz, you know that going through agents is nearly impossible.  So, through a person who knows a person who knows this actor's attorney, I got it to his attorney.  Of course along the way, both of those 'persons' had to read it, and both loved it.  The attorney grumbled and wasn't sure.  But then he read it, and called me.  Said in his 30 years of practicing entertainment law in LA it was one of the best scripts he's ever read.  Wow.  He then excitedly sent it to his client.  But the actor never read it.  He simply said he wasn't interested in the genre.  And that was that. (Well, I'm not finished trying with that actor, but there are others good for that character too...so...)  Anyway, I thought I'd share that.  Thought it was pretty cool.

In any case, we are on the brink of some good news...and that's not just hype...we really are.  And it has taken a lot of fight and perseverance to get here, and will take much more to get to that blessed day when I first yell 'Action!"  But we'll get there.  And I hope you will join in and help.  Gotta just keep working on the dream.  Ride on.