La Love Stories

Stories that raise the question: in the City of Angels, is Cupid just another out-of-work actor?1. DON’T SPIT ON THIS PITCH. Project proposal for animated feature film Hollywood or Burst by Frances Abigail YeardleyA successful screenwriter pitches an animated film for adults about 3 LA wannabes looking for fame, fortune and if time permits, love.2. FIRST LOVE. PART 1.When a New York doctor and LA film director fall in love for the first time on a hiking trip they must manage dream and reality across the wide continent that separates them.3. BEACHED IN VENICE.Failure to perform belittles our hapless hero in this Kafkaesque tale.4. TINSELTOWN.A hick comes to Hollywood looking for the kind of divine platinum blondes he’s seen in the movies, only to find that celluloid can be deceiving.5. A LESSON IN LOVE.Former swinger, now happily married Jack Winston tries to straighten out his hormonal teenage sons with a cautionary tale about his own history looking for love in all the wrong places.6. FIRST LOVE. PART 2.7. TOO DEEP FOR TEARS, featuring Private Detective John Marriner.The corpse of a former nun turned actress/model has been found in the desert near Joshua Tree National Park and her onetime Mother Superior asks Banning private detective John Marriner–a decorated war veteran with stress and other disorders–to search for her killer on the mean streets of LA, where he was last seen bitchslapping the city Police Chief.8. HONEST ABE. A salesman looks back at the life and career of his boss, the honestest used car dealer in the Southern California heartland.9. FIRST LOVE. PART 3.