18 july 1998
privileges
is dennis miller in every bad movie?
Running news:
Slept in today.

So, let me get this straight: despite every newspaper article and TV news reporter saying that the Clinton administration is the entity that asserted that the Secret Service's privilege not to be compelled to testify against the President, it was in fact the Justice Department, on behalf of the Secret Service, that fought for the privilege?

And if you didn't know that it was the Justice Department--no friend of Clinton's, despite what you might think--that was behind the challenge and not the Clinton Administration, why are you finding it out from an online journal?

What's up with the second grand jury action? Is Kenneth afraid of how Monica Lewinsky Jury 1 is asking too many questions? There is no reason that the Secret Service couldn't wait until Tuesday to testify--unless Ken doesn't want a jury that's heard all the crap and speculation flung around for the past 6 months hearing this too.

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I have not solved my plot problem in the rewrite of the Thesis script. Very annoying. What the problem is, essentially, is that what I've run into is a section of the script that pure plot--which means that I'm bored thinking about it, and if I'm bored, you'll be bored. So I have to back up and rethink and get past this somehow.

Raymond Chandler--I think it was Raymond Chandler--suggested at moments like this, have someone burst through the door with a gun.

Writing about writing is a fundamentally silly proposition, not only because I won't give you the specifics of what I'm doing, but because it's such a silly venture. I make up characters, I figure out what they do and say, I make them into real people, and I convince you that they're real people...and I try not to get picked up by the looney bin men for talking to imaginary friends.

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As I sit here late at night, still thinking about the damn roadblock I've run into in my script, I'm watching Murder at 1600, which 10 minutes in appears to be a very silly movie. And Dennis Miller is in it. Is he just a sign of a bad movie, or what?


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