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Additional Screenplays: Club Suicide (currently rewriting as a dark comedy) 6 people who have attempted suicide are offered a controversial donation program, linking them to children who desperately want to live, as a viable alternative to suicide. All six characters are based on people in my own life who have killed themselves. I researched the model in the screenplay as a volunteer at Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Baggage Claim High-Concept Comedy about adult romance, high-maintenance teenagers, and ditching a pain-in-the-butt parent with Alzheimers! (My mother was the inspiration for this. The obit I wrote for her may be a clue): Dorothy Viola Southern, formerly of North Little Rock passed away in Colorado Springs on July 9, 2009. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Angela Hill and son, Ronald Whitley, and survived by her children, Steven Grant of Colorado Springs, Linda Novak of Nashville and Pam Boyd of Dallas who are glad that she died peacefully and not in a shoot-out. Undoubtedly, she was quite a character, feisty, passionate, out-spoken and known for many shenanigans in her 83 years. In spite of her (at least) nine marriages and mostly turbulent life, Mom was a dedicated and conscientious mother to her five children. Born in Levy to Sylvia and Chester Thorn on February 11, 1926, she married at the age of 13, had two children by the age of 16, was a jack of all trades, and lived in12 states before she died. She was most proud of her career modeling shoes with her tiny little size-4 foot. Her children have never ceased to marvel at her tenacity, work ethic, ingenuity, and sense of humor that she kept through it all. (Unfortunately she never learned the art of contentment or anger management which she desperately needed. But, understandably, she got off to a rocky start and really never had a fair chance.) She sincerely delighted in (well, except sometimes when she was living near them) her eleven grandchildren, Ronnie Whitley, Heather Whitley, Christopher Grant, Tonia Bruce, Kim Vance, Chanin Koehn, Michael Novak, Susannah and Justin Hill, and Hudson, Sydney, and Pammy Boyd. She also had four great-grandchildren who are only familiar with the urban legend of their crazy grandmother. Many nieces and nephews live in the Little Rock area, and who sometimes remember her fondly as their unusual and unpredictable Aunt Dorothy. | |||||||||
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