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May 11, 2008

My poor stupid Oprah book isn't ever gonna get done. The latest thing I'm calling it is Oprah's Dead Son. Maybe I'll make it a pome, instead. All advertising is spam. Here's Ginny Good in its entirety:

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn1.html

Here are some sample chapters from The Audio Book of Ginny Good.

Chapter 7: North Beach, New Year's Eve, 1962
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch07m.mp3

Chapter 13: San Francisco, Tijuana, Mississippi, New York, Summer, 1964
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch13m.mp3

Chapter 19: La Honda, May, 1965
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch19m.mp3

Chapter 23: Haight-Ashbury, Fall, 1967, Part 1
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch23m.mp3

Chapter 24: Haight-Ashbury, Fall, 1967, Part 2
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch24m.mp3

Chapter 32: Hillsborough, CA, Summer, 1982
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch32m.mp3

Chapter 35: Ashland, OR, February, 2003
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/audio/GGch35m.mp3

Here's the index to the audio book:

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn.html

If you want a copy of the whole huge fifteen-hour extravaganza on .mp3 CDs for free, give me an address and I'll send you a copy. There's a bunch of other stuff on my little website, too. Click some links and see. Thanks. G.

Gerard Jones
everyone@everyonewhosanyone.com
http://www.everyonewhosanyone.com

"...they'll have me whipped for speaking true, thou'lt
have me whipped for lying; and sometimes I am
whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any
kind o' thing than a fool: and yet I would not be
thee, nuncle..."

The Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 560-1000

(Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Miramax Films, Pixar)

http://www.disney.com

***Redacted***

GINNY GOOD is a book, not a stoy idea. Look it up on Amazon, read the reviews, like this recent one in January Magazine:

http://www.janmag.com/biography/ginnygood.html

Order a copy, send it to whoever around there looks for story ideas in books. Or forward this e-mail to them. I didn't know George Mitchell was Senator Mitchell. Cool. Thanks. Gerard Jones

***Redacted***

Hey, Sherrie, I was a managing legal assistant in San Francisco for awhile. I talk a little bit about it in the first chapter of my gorgeous book, Ginny Good. You should pick up a copy and when you see how good it is you can get someone around there to solicit the film rights from the publisher. I don't have any big stake in getting a movie made of it. I wrote it. That was all I wanted to do. Some movie company is gonna be glad they made a movie out of it. Nice letter, by the way, and, yes, I understand and dutifully "accept" your company's policy, however ill-advised it might prove to be. Oh, and it's "Gerard," actually. Not Gerald. Here's a link to a sample chapter with a bunch of law firm stuff in it from the book:

http://everyonewhosanyone.com/ggsyn.html

The story takes place in Haight-Ashbury in the sixties; how it gets there from a San Francisco law firm in the nineties is one of the great mysteries of modern literature. You should find out. Thanks. G.

***Redacted***

Dear Ms. Murphey: I don't tell you how to run your business but I welcome your suggestions as to how you think I should run mine. I have a pretty good idea that what I'm doing does "further my interests." My sole interest is to get movies made out of my gorgeous books. You guys make movies. Sorry for the "unwelcome burden," but the Walt Disney Company advertising its products creates an unwelcome burden for me. Everywhere I turn, what do I see? Disney this, Disney that. That's cool. How else am I gonna know what you want me to buy, right? I'm simply doing the same thing. How else are you gonna know what you wanna make movies out of if you don't hear about good books to make movies out of? If y'all wanna stop advertising your vacuous fluff I'll stop advertising my substantial, artistic stuff. How about that? I'm one of the best writers who's ever lived. Ginny Good is one of the best books ever published. Here's a list of the best nonfiction books of 2004 GG just got named on:

http://www.januarymagazine.com/features/bestof04nonfiction.html

It was only the ninth best book in the world 'cause they called nonfiction and it had to compete with Dylan and Alexander the Great. If they'd called Ginny Good fiction, which is what it reads like, it would have been the first best book published in the world in the year 2004. If you guys don't want to hear about books that would make good movies, that's your business. If I don't want to go to your movies, I don't go to them--but that doesn't stop you from trying to get me to go to them, right? My business is that I write books that would make good movies and I'm gonna tell you about those books; do with that information what you will. If you don't want to make good movies out of good books, hey, I can't stop you. If I don't want to go to your movies, you can't stop me. We're both in the same business. Thanks. G.

The Buena Vista Motion Picture Group
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 560-1000

http://www.disney.com

Touchstone Pictures
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 560-1000

http://www.disney.com

Morra, Brezner, Steinberg, & Tenenbaum
345 N. Maple Drive, Ste. 200
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 385-1820

http://www.mbst.com

Jacobson Company
500 S. Buena Vista, Animation Bldg.
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 560-1600

Baumgarten Merims Productions, Inc.
1640 S. Sepulveda #218
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 996-1885

Storyline Entertainment
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Old Animation Bldg. Ste. 3-D
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 560-2928

http://www.storyline-entertainment.com

Blue Light, Inc.
12233 Olympic Blvd., Ste 340
Los Angeles, CA 90064
(310) 207-7378

Harpo Films
345 N. Maple Dr., Ste. 315
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 278-5559

Harpo Studios
110 North Carpenter
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 633-1000

Karz Entertainment
500 S. Buena Vista, Animation Bldg.
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 560-4260

Mayhem Pictures
725 Arizona Ave., Ste. 302
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 393-5005

Pfeffer Film
500 S. Buena Vista Blvd., Animation Bldg.
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 560-3177

Boxing Cat Productions
11500 Hart Street
North Hollywood, CA 91605
(818) 765-4870

Beacon Communications
120 Broadway, Ste. 200
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 260-7000

(Appian Way, Katalyst Films...)

http://www.beaconpictures.com

Appian Way
9255 Sunset Blvd., Ste. 615
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 300-1390

Katalyst Films
1633 26th Street, 2nd Fl.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 907-2236

Vanguard Films
8703 W. Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(310) 360-8039

http://www.vanguardfilms.com

Hyde Park Entertainment
2500 Broadway St.
Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 449-3191

Offspring Entertainment
500 South Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521

Farrell Paura Productions
500 South Buena Vista St. Animation Bldg., Rm. 2C
Burbank, CA 91521
818-560-3000

Junction Entertainment
500 S Buena Vista St., Animation Bldg.
Burbank, California 91521
(818) 560-2800

Martin Chase Productions
500 S. Buena Vista St., Animation Bldg., Rm. 2E-6
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 560-3952

44 Blue Productions
4040 Vineland Ave., Ste. 105
Studio City CA 91604
(818) 760-4442

http://www.44blue.com

Four Boys Films
500 S. Buena Vista St., Animation Bldg.
Burbank, CA 91521
(818) 560-1230

http://www.fourboysfilms.com

Pandemonium
100 N. Crescent Dr. Ste. 148
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 385-4088

Miramax Films
375 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10013
(212) 941-3800

8439 Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(323) 951-4100

http://www.miramax.com

To Mr. Jones: This will acknowledge your recent e-mail dated March 24th, 2005, to Michael Luisi and myself regarding two books that you have indicated may be of interest to us. Unfortunately our company's established policy does not allow us to accept or review any ideas, literary materials or electronic submissions that are not solicited by us. Our intention is to avoid misunderstandings when projects are created internally which may be considered similar to submissions made to us from outside the company. We recognize that this policy is sometimes a difficult one when someone like yourself, with all the best intentions, would simply like us to consider his creative work. However, as required, I am returning your e-mail correspondence without reviewing it or retaining any electronic or hard copies. I have instructed Michael Luisi to do the same. We hope that you will understand our position. Please be assured of our thanks for your interest in writing to us and our best wishes for your future success. Sincerely, Alan R. Friedman, General Counsel & Executive Vice President Business Affairs, Message sent by Kristen Silvi, Assistant to Alan R. Friedman

So solicit 'em. Thanks. G.

Does "YOU ARE OFFICIALLY REJECTED" make it any clearer to you?

How can I be "officially rejected" if you didn't read what I sent you? Don't be silly. In order to be officially rejected I have to have been officially read. Those are the rules. Look 'em up. Thanks. G.

Not the rules here mister.

Then you're playing by the wrong rules and your conclusions are therefore absurd. Rules is rules, sister. You can't make up your own and expect them to mean anything to anyone else. That's something you should have learned in the third grade. G.

Miramax International
161 Sixth Ave., 15th Flr.
New York, NY 10012
(212) 606-5500

FilmColony, Ltd.
7966 Beverly Blvd., 3rd Flr.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(323) 951-4650

100 N. Crescent Dr., Ste. 125
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 432-1701

Mirage Enterprises
233 S. Beverly Dr. Ste 200
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
(310) 888-2830

Guy Magar Films
7185 Woodrow Wilson Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90068
(323) 461-9009

View Askew Productions
116 Broad Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701
(732) 842-6933

http://www.viewaskew.com

Tapestry Films
9328 Civic Center Dr., Ste. 2
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 275-1191

Pixar Animation Studios
1200 Park Avenue
Emeryville, CA 94608
(510) 752-3000

http://www.pixar.com

SBE Entertainment Group
8000 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(323) 330-8000

(Element Films)

Element Films
7966 Beverly Blvd., 3rd Flr.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(323) 330-8000

http://www.elementfilm.com

Rainbow Media
200 Jericho Quadrangle
Jericho, NY 11753
(516) 803-4500

(IFC Entertainment, WE: Women's Entertainment)

http://www.rainbow-media.com

http://www.we-womensentertainment.com

Media 8 Entertainment
15260 Ventura Blvd., Ste. 710
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
(818) 325-8000

1100 rue de La Gauchetière Ouest, Bureau 280
Montreal, Quebec H3B 2S2
(514) 879-5606

(Handprint Entertainment, Carol Baum Productions, Odd Lot Entertainment...)

http://www.media8entertainment.com

Handprint Entertainment
1100 Glendon Ave., Ste. 1000
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 481-4400

Carol Baum Productions
8899 Beverly Blvd., Ste. 721
West Hollywood, CA 90048
(310) 550-4575

Odd Lot Entertainment
368 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(310) 652-0999

http://www.oddlotentertainment.com

Pinewood Shepperton Studios
Pinewood Road, Iver Heath
Buckinghamshire SL0 0NH
+44-17-5365-1700

(Random Harvest)

http://www.pinewoodshepperton.com

***Redacted***

Dear Julia: I'm pretty sure Ridley Scott makes movies, doesn't he? I've included lots of people on my little list who don't outright "buy" film properties but they (and you) have connections in the film industry and may serendipitously pass along an interesting project to someone who does. Thanks. G.

***Redacted***

I prefer not to. Nobody knows what kind of weirdo synchronicity might happen. Thanks. G.

Participant Productions
335 N. Maple Dr., Ste. 245
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 550-5100

(Edward Saxon Productions)

http://www.participantproductions.com

Edward Saxton Productions
335 North Maple Dr. Suite 354
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
(310) 550-4852

Platinum Dunes
631 Colorado Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 394-9200

Frederic Golchan Productions
10900 Wilshire Blvd., 14th Flr.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 208-8525

Bay Films
631 Colorado Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 319-6565

Inferno Distribution
9595 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 900
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
(323) 848-8973

Dalaklis-McKeown Entertainment
1750 Berkeley Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 460-0200

http://www.dmetv.net

Hergott Productions
2598 San Joaquin Hills Rd.
Corona Del Mar, CA 92625
(949) 640-5991

Halcyon Pictures
8306 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 680
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
(310) 388-6087

http://www.halcyonpix.com

Robert Greenwald Productions
10510 Culver Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
(310) 204-0404

(Brave New Films)

http://www.rgpinc.com

Brave New Films
10510 Culver Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
(800) 525-8212

http://www.bravenewfilms.org

(@) = Not a corporate fascist. (Feel free to apply for non-corporate fascist status...simply tell me in fifty words or fewer why you think you're not a corporate fascist.)

(*) = E-mail bounced. Correct information much appreciated. In fact, anyone who knows anything I don't know, let me know.

(!) = E-mail blocked (just mine, not yours), probably 'cause the intended recipient and/or the company by which he or she is owned and operated is an extra brainwashed, super chicken, corporate fascist goon.

(666) = Asked not to be contacted (by me, not by you), very likely because he or she is a happy little slave boy or a happy little slave girl and doesn't want it any other way, uh-huh, uh-huh.

Gerard Jones
everyone@everyonewhosanyone.com