Dear Tallfellowites,

Welcome to the Tallfellow Tribune, Volume 2, Issue #3, December 2006. The “Winter is beautiful, but we’re freezing our Droodles off!!!” issue.

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Enjoy the Tallfellow Tribune - your must-be-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 fun December trivia, special discounts, and our next Droodles Caption Contest (and last issue’s winner).

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Tallfellow Trivia for December:

· In December of 1776, George Washington crossed what river? Who painted the famous picture of the event?

· The first transatlantic radio signal was sent to whom? Where? From where? When? What was it?

· Orville Wright made his first successful airplane flight on December 17th? What year? In what city (the easy part) and state (a bit a harder!) did this take place?

· Who received the first artificial heart on December 2? What was the year? Who performed the operation?

· Did you know that the North Pole is actually too cold for reindeer?

· Did you know that Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was originally named Rollo?

· Did you know that the coldest December day on record in the U.S. was in 1924, when the temperature was 59 degrees below zero at Riverside Ranger Station in Yellowstone Park, WY?

· Some famous December birthdays: Howard Hughes, Wassily Kandinsky, George Custer, Patty Duke, Richard Leakey, Kit Carson, Sissy Spacek, Louis Prima, Diego Rivera, Susan Dey, Mary Queen of Scots, Denzel Washington, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Teri Garr, Jean-Luc Godard, Bobby Van, Jeff Bridges, Buck Henry, Jim Morrison, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Klee, Tim Conway, Eli Wallach and Christopher Plummer

Sponsored by It’s Winter by Jimmy Pickering

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(NPR) KCRW's radio show The Business has started a new "regularly irregular" feature called The Writer Speaks which spotlights contributors from our book Doing It For Money - The Agony and Ecstasy of Writing and Surviving in Hollywood, published in conjunction with the Writers Guild Foundation.

So far, they’ve been great!!!

You can listen at any time on the site.

Below is info on the show and air times:

The Business is National Public Radio?s program about the business of show business. Hosted by TMZ.com's industry columnist and former Variety reporter Claude Brodesser, listen to The Business each week for a half-hour of thoughtful and irreverent dialogue with Hollywood's top deal-makers, filmmakers, moguls, artists and agents. The Business will clue you in on who's making pop culture pop and what's keeping Hollywood's Blackberries juicy.

The Business is a production of KCRW, Santa Monica and distributed by NPR.

CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles/Santa Monica, CA - KCRW-FM 89.9, Monday, 2:30-3:00 PM
FLORIDA:
Fort Pierce, FL - WQCS-FM 88.9, Saturday, 6:30-6:00 PM
MICHIGAN:
Detroit, MI - WDET-FM 101.9, Saturday, 5:30-6:00 AM
NEW YORK:
New York, NY - WNYC-AM 820, Sunday, 8:30-9:00 PM
SOUTH CAROLINA:
Sumter/Columbia - ETV Radio 88.1
Aiken/Augusta " 89.1
Beaufort/Hilton Head " 89.9
Conway/Myrtle Beach " 90.1
All Saturday, noon-12:30
WASHINGTON, DC:
Washington, DC - WETA-FM 90.0, Sunday, 8:30-9:00

Stream at www.kcrw.org/show/tb

Podcast on iTunes

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Droodles, Droodles, Droodles (not the ones we’re freezin’ off!!)

The 9th Droodles Caption Contest is here! Go to our blog to celebrate the satisfaction of being succinct. As always, the winner gets a free, one-of-a-kind copy of the mass-produced mega-seller, Droodles: The Classic Collection.

The winner of last issue’s contest is D. Kendrick. Congrats! Look for your copy soon.

And don’t miss the new contest with New Year’s Droodle and new chance for clever captioning. Here it is:

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Shameless Plug of the Month

Several of our books are spotlighted in Expanded Books online videos which feature interviews with authors. The books are:

• Great Failures of the Extremely Successful by Steve Young
• Write Screenplays That Sell – The Ackerman Way by Hal Ackerman
• Doing It For Money by Daryl G. Nickens (interview with our own Leonard Stern)
• And still to come, The Grandfather Thing by Saul Turteltaub

Take a look. They’re fun.

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‘Tis Better to Give

And just because we’re in a giving mood, we will give a free book (of your choice) to the first person to email us . So visit our site (www.Tallfellow.com), pick the book you want and email the title of the book to us as fast as you can. Email address is Tallfellow@pacbell.net. Good luck!

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Authors on Parade

Congrats to our authors Chris Abbott (Ten Minutes to the Pitch) and Hal Ackerman (Write Screenplays that Sell – The Ackerman Way), who were guest lecturers at the recent Screenwriting Expo 5, the world’s largest event of its kind.

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More useless Winter Trivia

• What is the French word for sled?
• What is the name for the spin in which skaters hold the free skate and pull their leg up above their head?
• One inch of rain is equivalent to how many inches of melted snow?

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One Final Note

Our book A Martian Wouldn’t Say That !!! – Real Memos TV Execs Wish They Hadn’t Sent has been in much demand lately. It’s a great stocking stuffer and we’ve had several people stop by the office to buy several copies (as they couldn’t find them in stores!). Here are a few favorites (don’t forget these are REAL memos):

“Is it possible to improve the caliber of writing without doing a disservice to the show’s popularity and excellent demographics?”

“Could we please see another writing sample? The play you submitted reads like a play.”

And an all-time fave…

To: The Producers

From: VP, Current Programming

Re: The Fred Astaire Special

Too much dancing.

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Well, that’s about it for 2006. We wish you all a happy and healthy new year and a wonderful and prosperous 2007.

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Trivia answers #1

1. Delaware River, Emmanuel Luetze
2. Gugliellmo Marconi and George Kemp, Newfoundland, England, December 12, 1901 (12:30 pm, to be exact), ‘S’ in Morse code
3. 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
4. Dr. Barney Clark, 1982, Dr. William DeVries

Trivia Answers #2

1. Luge
2. Biellman
3. 10 inches

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Thanks for reading The Tallfellow Tribune! Books everywhere are a little happier.

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