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My Favorite Year 1982 1080p BluRay x264-OFT
My Favorite Year 1982 1080p BluRay x264-OFT [RR/NF] Size: 4GB mkv H264 (HIGH) / AC3 HD 1920x1080 All releases of "My Favorite Year" My Favorite Year (1982) Genre: Comedy | Drama Directed By: Richard Benjamin Cast: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper MPAA Rate: PG Country: United States Original Language: English Storyline: An aging, dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show in 1954, and a young comedy writer is tasked with the thankless job of keeping him...
Virtual Bookish Events for September 20-26, 2021
The Virtual Bookish Events Newsletter is sent weekly and events are separated into four categories: For Readers - Free, For Writers - Free, For Readers - Paid, For Writers - Paid. This newsletter is sponsored by Free Expressions Seminars, WP expert Nate Hoffelder, and The Shape of a Star Podcast.
Where Are We Now?
Psychotherapist Dennis Palumbo gives an update on how writers are adapting after 10 months of staying safer-at-home. By Dennis Palumbo (1/15/2021) Here’s a question I’ve been asked recently: “Now that we’ve lived through more of the pandemic, do you see a shift in how your therapy patients are coping?” My answer: Yes and no. Yes, in terms of a shift in responses among my writer patients, though it ranges all over the place.
Breaking News: Writing is Hard!
As a psychotherapist who specializes in working with creative people, I'm often asked to speak at writing conferences. At one such recent event, an audience member stood up and asked a question. "When I write," he said, "I feel like I don't always know what I'm doing. I go over stuff, then I cross stuff out, then I try something else...I feel like I'm losing it sometimes. What does that mean?" I shrugged.
My Favorite Year
An aging, dissolute matinee idol is slated to appear on a live TV variety show in 1954, and a young comedy writer is tasked with the thankless job of keeping him ready and sober for the broa...
A Really Great Team- Dennis Palumbo
About the Author: Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter (My Favorite Year; Welcome Back, Kotter, etc.), Dennis Palumbo is a licensed psychotherapist and author. His mystery fiction has appeared in Ellery Queenâs Mystery Magazine, The Strand and elsewhere, and is collected in From Crime to Crime (Tallfellow Press).
Head Wounds: A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery #5
Miles Davis saved my life. I was sitting on the couch in my front room, re-reading the three-inch-thick dossier, listening to Davis’ seminal album with his New Quintet. I’d slid the CD into the squat disc player minutes earlier, right after I’d poured myself a second Jack Daniels. Neat. It was sometime after nine p.m. My broad picture window looking out on Grandview Avenue reflected an opaque darkness chilled by an earlier spring rain.
Mirror Image by Dennis Palumbo
A clinical psychologist who specializes in treating those who have experienced severe traumas, Dr. Daniel Rinaldi has been working with Kevin Merrick for six months, during which the troubled and previously hospitalized young man has gradually identified with Rinaldi such that he’s trying to become his therapist by stealing small items from the … office and “(H)esitantly at first, and then quite blatantly, he’d begun dressing like me…His beard, without my telltale sprigs of gray, was coming...
From Crime to Crime - Mind-boggling Tales of Mystery and Murder eBook: Dennis Palumbo: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store
In his introduction to this collection of "armchair mysteries", Dennis Palumbo traces the history of such mysteries back to Edgar Allan Poe. As steeped in tradition as this genre might be, these twelve tales are all thoroughly up to date, taking place largely in a contemporary domestic setting. From Crime to Crime is based on Palumbo's own experiences with his friends, who all used to meet together at the author's home in the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles.
Head Wounds
The fifth book in the Daniel Rinaldi series picks up soon after the events of the previous story, 2014’s Phantom Limb, and finds Dr. Rinaldi, a psychologist who consults with the Pittsburgh Police Department, studying a dossier that supposedly holds a clue to the unsolved killing of his wife years earlier. It is a calm night, the doctor enjoying some Miles Davis on the stereo, until his window is shot out by a neighbor’s abusive boyfriend.
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Author Dennis Palumbo & "Head Wounds" on Authors on the Air
Authors on the Air host Pam Stacl welcomes author Dennis Palumbo. Dennis Palumbo, M.A., MFT is a writer and licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in creative issues. His newest crime novel, PHANTOM LIMB, is on sale now from Poisoned Pen Press. The book is the fourth in the series featuring psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi. The first Rinaldi mystery was MIRROR IMAGE, to be followed by FEVER DREAM and NIGHT TERRORS.
Night Terrors: A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery #3
The killer and I sat together in the back seat of the late-model Range Rover, our shoulders just touching. Wesley Currim, early twenties, in jeans and a faded “Beer Me” sweatshirt, shifted uneasily next to me, rubbing his cuffed hands between his knees. His face, profiled in the half-light glazing the snow-encrusted windows, was narrow, acne-pitted. Hard-planed as though etched with acid.
Mirror Image: A Daniel Rinaldi Mystery #1
Chapter One Shame is a deep well. Face tightened in anguish, a young man named Kevin Merrick was sitting in my office, telling me about the first time he’d slept with his sister. “I musta been eight or nine,” he said. Kevin was in his early twenties, but thinning hair and pained, sunken eyes made him seem older, faded somehow. The three-week-old growth of beard didn’t help. “I’m sorry, Dr. Rinaldi. I didn’t think…I mean, shit, it was all so long ago…” “Take your time,” I said.
How being a psychotherapist helped me become a better writer
I must admit, I’ve had an interesting career journey. For many years, I was a Hollywood screenwriter, after which I became a licensed psychotherapist specializing in treating creative types in the entertainment community. Now, after 28 years of listening to hundreds of people’s most intimate stories, I’ve fulfilled a lifelong dream and begun a series of crime novels.
Writers Beware! Diagnosing Characters on TV and Film
As a former Hollywood screenwriter turned licensed psychotherapist, I have more than a passing interest in how therapy (and therapy patients) are portrayed on TV and film. That said, I've noticed that in recent years, whether in some box office smash based on a best-selling crime thriller or on your average procedural TV drama, the therapists portrayed onscreen are usually pretty quick-on-the-draw when it comes to diagnosing characters in the story.
Breaking News: Writing is Hard!
As a psychotherapist who specializes in working with creative people, I'm often asked to speak at writing conferences. At one such recent event, an audience member stood up and asked a question. "When I write," he said, "I feel like I don't always know what I'm doing. I go over stuff, then I cross stuff out, then I try something else...I feel like I'm losing it sometimes. What does that mean?" I shrugged.
Hollywood DSM: Industry Shrinks Reveal What's Wrong With Actors, Producers, Agents and More
Every job in town, from studio exec to screenwriter, actor to agent, has a dominant dysfunction — and diagnosis. For THR's annual Doctor's Issue Hollywood's top mental caregivers share insights straight out of their session notes. This story first appeared in the Sept. 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. The Executive: The Pressures of the Golden HandcuffBy Dr. Larry Shaw The pressures are different for male and female executives.
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