Writing
Prematurely deceased people are given the opportunity to correct something that went wrong in their lives and thus change them for the better.
Fourteen-year-old high school student, Amy Dustin, becomes an object of romantic affection to the school's biology teacher and football coach, Pete Nash. They take a sudden interest in each other, sending each other notes and talking on the telephone. Although Pete has a family, the two begin a secret relationship. People then begin to suspect that Pete and Amy are having an affair.
An unwed mother-to-be marries a total stranger so he can avoid the draft. She now has a father for her child and he doesn't have to go to Vietnam. But this marriage-of-convenience leads to a romance between the two.
I'll Take Manhattan is a 1987 American television miniseries, adapted from Judith Krantz's novel of the same name. Screened by CBS, it tells the story of the wealthy Amberville family, who run their own publishing company in New York. After Zachary Amberville, the patriarch of the family, dies, the company is taken over by his unscrupulous brother Cutter. Zachary's children, especially his energetic and intelligent daughter Maxi, begin a battle to regain control of the father's company. I'll Take Manhattan was the highest-rated miniseries of the 1986–87 US television season with a 22.9/35 rating/share.
A newswoman is consumed by suspicions and guilt over her rocky marriage.
A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her life.
Black and white UCLA Student Film, preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. A narrative short of one woman's existential crisis over her love for French and classic Hollywood cinema. She goes to the movies, cries off her eyeliner, and smokes cigarettes, leading her life in the spirit of Lauren Bacall. Yet her romantic life falls short of the cinematic arc.
