Sentimental about Old New York City

I'm very sentimental and nostalgic...especially for eras before I was born; and especially for Old New York City; and especially for the 1920's-40's.

This 1928 film footage from NYC evokes all sorts of wistful thoughts and feelings in me about life in my city at that time. So much was happening here. 1928 was just four years after George Gershwin wrote Rhapsody in Blue, just one year before The Marx Brothers' first movie - The Cocoanuts - was filmed, and just a few years after my grandparents set foot in NYC, immigrating from Poland. It was also two years after my beloved piano was built by Steinway & Sons, also right here in NYC...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkqz3lpUBp0&fbclid=IwAR1p0RaF32EjvCaNQT6d-q6elrcy2JigNc5s6GwBJhql5ZxmAWYklii5IoI

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Trillo & Suede History

I created the concept of a ventriloquist/dummy detective duo in a film noir-ish alternate universe back in the 1990’s. In 1999 I wrote my first Trillo & Suede feature film screenplay – The Hong Kong Canary. It was a parody of both The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca. Next I entered a Twilight Zone of Catch-22’s… Production companies would not look at my script unless I was represented by an agent. And agents were not interested in representing me unless a production company had already taken on one or more of my scripts. Agents were also not interested in looking at my script because I was not an established, well-known screenwriter. And, of course, there was no way I could become an established, well-known screenwriter unless I could get one of my scripts produced. I tried submitting The Hong Kong Canary as a pilot for a tv series. I also wrote treatments for an entire season of episodes. However, most tv channels would not accept tv series scripts unless submitted by an agent. And ...

The Trillo & Suede Concept

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