Other Reviews by NORMAN STEVENS 9

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  YOU GOTTA LOVE JAZZ
  A review of Deacon's Blues
  by NORMAN STEVENS on 12/08/2002
  This is a story that seems to go on forever and unless you're into music and jazz, you'll be bored to tears. It's a pleasant read but it's not a motion picture. It's a novella or a short story or a pleasant moment, but it's not a motion picture. It's all over the lot story-wise and the dialogue just ain't real. Itr's too simple for my tastes but for those who love the jazz... This is a story that seems to go on forever and unless you're into music and jazz, you'll be bored to tears. It's a pleasant read but it's not a motion picture. It's a novella or a short story or a pleasant moment, but it's not a motion picture. It's all over the lot story-wise and the dialogue just ain't real. Itr's too simple for my tastes but for those who love the jazz "experience": it might be fun to read. It needs a total overhaul to make a movie out of it. read
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  Off-off-off Broadway in Keokuk, Iowa.
  A review of The Third Horn
  by NORMAN STEVENS on 12/04/2002
  With all due respect to the young person who wrote this, he is not yet ready for Hollywood or New York. This was nothing more than an exercise in writing clever dialogue that was not very clever and certainly not sophisticated. The writer needs a basic course in script writing, dramatic first, before he tackles the more difficult world of comedy or sharp, crisp, dialogue. By... With all due respect to the young person who wrote this, he is not yet ready for Hollywood or New York. This was nothing more than an exercise in writing clever dialogue that was not very clever and certainly not sophisticated. The writer needs a basic course in script writing, dramatic first, before he tackles the more difficult world of comedy or sharp, crisp, dialogue. By page 36 I was bored to tears. By page 3 I could have told you the story except that I would have brought in another male to present him with a challenge and give the reader a shot at imaging that something would really happen. I've heard it said a million times in reviewing scripts, "Nothing happens!"A hundred pages and nothing happens! It's not just that you're dealing with only two or three sets, it's that the dialogue must be brilliant, repeat, "Brilliant", to sustain so little physical action. I would not even suggest this as an "off-off" show because again it would sit there like a log. Get nasty, or get dirty, or get angry, but "get" something" because you're putting your readers to sleep. I'm sure the writer loves it... we all love our own stuff, but reality must rear it's ugly head and say this bores. Did you hear the word: "bore". It's boring. read