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06.19.2017

Jxxxxx –

My vicious ranting about the hermetically sealed “Hollywood System” ceased today [June 3] after I read your e-mail dated  ). Since I am a plotter & planner, I composed this message immediately. Why? I was prepared to detest you as if your crew had taken advantage of the local St. Louis people to make some money.  

However, the tone of your e-mail won me over, like a Donald Trump undiagnosed “mood swing.” I’m not sure what a “we” could do besides get this man named Hughes out of the Wayside Motel if I have not already been “rescued” by the time you see this.

I love telling stories, as did my late dad. And, every rookie screenwriter is told that’s what the business is all about. Bull crap! It’s all about making money and getting an Oscar on the mantle, isn’t it?

Here is your true story:

In Thousand Oaks I met a young woman named “Lacy.” She had been in a skin flick and I asked, “How bad was it?” She said, “I took my clothes off, but not too bad.” She expressed a desire to be in a “real movie,” so we hatched a plan.

It was this. She dresses seductively, and I look like a “writer nerd” in the Coffee Bean by the DGA. (I sat there at first when I thought my name would not be a problem). When someone asks, “What are you writing?” we were going to try to ensnare an agent or ProdCo dude.

When she departed that night she said, “You’ve got a date!” which in the porn industry means…

On the night in question, Hughes expected to be disappointed, and I was. She did not show, but an informant gave this report. Daddy hit the ceiling again, and moved her to a new town. The really bad news was that on the date night, somebody got her loaded on heroin, thus the no show.

I’ve wondered about her ever since. She gave me that gift of laughter when describing daddy’s first outburst after he obtained a copy of this classic on DVD and watched it. And my rude joke was? “Daddy does not like the competition.” I also met another porn actress so “famous” I shall withhold her name. That one promised to buy me some clothes. When she did not return the informant said, “She’s in rehab.”

See why I get my “puritanical” shorts twisted? Worse yet, people here in HickTown have said “Writing is not work” and stated that making movies is “easy.” That is not what I heard outside LA, and the information goes back to my own mom’s frustration as a better tap dancer than ballerina. I had a photo of her in the ballerina outfit and the not a joke line over all my property gone is: “If I had a nuke, you wouldn’t be here.” This is not a crime, torturing me in California was. Compare my treatment with that of the 9/11 detainees.

STRESS POSITIONS

DOG ATTACKS

DRUGGINGS

PHYSICAL ASSAULT

DOUSINGS WITH COLD WATER

VERBAL ABUSE

SLEEP DEPRIVATION

DEATH THREATS

MALNUTRITION

NO MEDICAL CARE

Would you want to put Jerry Brown in the slammer after that?

An always frank,

William C. Hughes