Dear Subscriber to The Tallfellow Tribune,

Welcome to the Tallfellow Tribune, Vol. 2, Issue #2, July 2006 - The “We’re Having a Heat Wave (and some of us love it!)” Issue!

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Enjoy the Tallfellow Tribune - your hopefully-by-now-favorite newsletter, chock full of trivia, games, contests and news from Tallfellow Press of Los Angeles - a pioneer in indie publishing. See below for funny facts, special discounts, and our next Droodles Caption Contest (and last issue’s winner), as well as all things sizzling for the summer.

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TALLFELLOW TRIVIA - SPONSORED BY IT'S SUMMER , by Jimmy Pickering

• Who was the only U.S. president born on the fourth of July? (Answers below)
• Amelia Earhardt disappeared in July of what year? What ocean was she over? What type of plane was she piloting? (Answer below)
• The first zoo in the United States opened in July? What city and what year?
• What is the birthstone of July?
• Six states produce most of the watermelons in the U.S. Name them.
• Did you know the Tour de France has been held in July since 1903?
• Did you know that the Secret Service was established in July of 1865?
• Some famous July birthdays : Ingmar Bergman, Red Skelton, Stanley Kubrick, Henry Ford, Bill Cosby, Woody Guthrie, Don Knotts, Nelson Mandela, Curly Joe DeRita (Stooge #5), Cat Stevens, Thurogood Marshall, Tom Hanks, Rembrandt, J.K. Rowling, Beck, A.S. Harrison, Sir Edmund Hillary, Ginger Rogers, Louis Armstrong, Arlo Guthrie and Mick Jagger.

sponsored by It's Summer

http://www.tallfellow.com/SM_BK_Summer.htm

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BREAKING NEWS OF ALL THINGS TALLFELLOW

Our new book, Doing It For Money – The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing and Surviving in Hollywood, published in conjunction with the Writers Guild Foundation, is featured in Premiere Magazine this month with a photo of the cover and this: “…plenty of humor and savvy tips for aspiring screenwriters….”

It was also reviewed in Scr(i)pt Magazine with this nice recommendation: “A must-read for anyone working in or trying to break into the industry.”

And it was excerpted in the London Sunday Telegraph magazine - Seven which featured a three-page piece plus sidebar of notable quotes from the book. Nice!

And (again), we had a half page review with cover in Entertainment Today’s Development Hell column by Brad Schreiber.

And (even again), our launch parties at the Barnes & Noble at the Grove (for the public) and the Writers Guild (by invitation only!) were big successes with over 20 contributors reading their entries to, mingling with and signing books for SRO crowds. Variety featured a photo of Steven Rogers (Kate & Leopold, Hope Floats), Chris Brancato (The X-Files, Boomtown) and Robert Nelson Jacobs (Chocolat, The Shipping News). Yummy food was provided by Cucina Paradiso and the champagne flowed courtesy of Mo?t et Chandon.

And for those of you who don’t know, the book features 48 top film and TV writers first-hand stories of working in the entertainment industry. Contributors include Terry Rossio, who just had a little movie open called Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Steve Gaghan (Syriana, Traffic), John August (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Big Fish), Chris Brancato (The X-Files, Boomtown), Leslie Dixon (The Thomas Crown Affair, Mrs. Doubtfire), Robert Cochran (24, L.A. Law), Gregory Allen Howard (Ali, Remember the Titans), Ted Tally (Silence of the Lambs) and many more. Also included are insider secrets from Hollywood pros on beating the system and avoiding the pitfalls of the ‘biz.” For a complete list of contributors and some notable quotes from the book, visit our website:Tallfellow.com.

On an extremely sad note, we are dedicating this issue of the Tribune to the author/editor of the new book, Daryl G. Nickens, who passed away two weeks ago. He was a warm, wonderful man who really made the book what it is. We will all miss him terribly.

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DROODLES, DROODLES, DROODLES

Our Droodles captioning contests have gone well. Some clever, funny minds out there. You can now enter our next Droodles Captioning Contest by going to our blog and telling us your title for this Droodle, just in time for all the summer wildfires:

Real Title: Fire Pole for False Alarms

Leave your own caption here: Captions

And (drum roll please), the winner of last month's contest is Monica Poling:

Congrats, Monica! Look for a copy of Droodles - The Classic Collection in the mail. To see the Droodle and Monica's winning caption, visit our blog.

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AND, IN ANOTHER, TOTALLY UNRELATED STORY

Our own Leonard Stern was recently honored with the Masters of Laughter Award for Games (with Roger Price) from Gotta Laff Games for Mad Libs. The award recognizes great work that creates laughter as Mad Libs has and continues to do. The award is a Heraldic Runner with Rubber Chicken…and it’s great! Congrats Leonard.

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PAINLESS PROMOTION OF THE MONTH:

Our Ten Minutes to Success series book Ten Minutes to the Audition just received a great review from Showbizhowto.com. Here are a few excerpts:

"If you are at all serious about being a successful actor, then this next book belongs next to your heart."

"It's just the right size for keeping with you at all times. Which I advise you to do."

"It's clear you're in the hands of a pro."

"Believe me, these four pages are worth the price of the book [referring to the Checklist]. The other 92 pages are also a delight, very helpful and filled with an obvious love of craft - containing many gems of good advice, that will undoubtedly hit home with most performers."

Success is just minutes away…Ten Minutes to be exact. See this book and all our great books at tallfellow.com.

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A TALL SMALL NOTE – Blind item

Several copies of a certain smallfellow children’s book were recently purchased by a big Hollywood studio with the possibility of turning it into a film or tv series. We’ve got our fingers crossed!

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SIZZLING SUMMER NOTE

With heat waves everywhere, temperature  records being broken right and left, all we can is Al Gore must have one heck of a P.R. firm!!!

TRIVIA #1 ANSWERS

1) Calvin Coolidge

2) July 2, 1937, The Pacific Ocean, Lockheed Electra

3) Philly

4) Ruby

5) California, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Arizona, Indiana

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Thanks for reading The Tallfellow Tribune! Tall people world ‘round thank you…short people, too!!!

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