All of his former students love, just love Milos. Milos sidekick and producing partner: The late, great Frantisek Daniel. Both making stars out of their early students, i.e. Albert Berger, David Weber, Don Bohlinger, Martin Daniel (Frank's kid), David Howard, David Lynch, Ihor Paul Wolansky, David Werner, James Nathan, Roy Cohn, Michael Schmulevich, Hugo Cassirer, Joseph Minion, Jim Koch , Barbara Zitwer - I could go on and on. and on About the gifted, good-natured, hard-working students around me. -about Milos, about Frank. -About their INNOVATIVE and ORIGINAL writing program. A FIRST an absolute FIRST of its' kind. ROOTED in famed Prague history, hardcore BELIEFS about writing: "It starts with the page..." "Only the page matters." "Stories are DRAMATIZED from within..." You usually won't see a former Columbia writer nominally add car chases, explosions, drug sub-plots - at Columbia this was to be BENEATH us - i.e. sub PAR writing - LAZY. How DARE we !!!? RELENTLESS in our instruction - they'd REFUSE to let their best students... turn in anything BUT that student's best POSSIBLE effort. They'd fight you if you turned in something SUB-par, they'd said no, go back to it - it doesn't work for reasons a, b and/or c. "How come your characters never eat?" Milos and Frank missed NOTHING. @ (it was the same Columbia U. program installed by Milos and Frank - that went over to USC School of Cinema early 90's - turned USC into just as much a writing as a producing school/program. Now it's USC at the top of the heap. BECAUSE Frank Daniel went there -rumored to be the suggestion/advice of one S-Speilberg.) I could go on and on and on. About Milos and Frank's character, integrity - absolute RIGID standards of writing, the page, being original - finding one's VOICES regardless of how LONG it took or takes). About their BELIEF in all of us. "You ...will ... BE there" said Frank one night over beer at our favorite haunt: The West End Cafe (I was starting to panic) THEIR program was responsible for the future superstars, the Simon Kinberg's and James Mangold's - Responsible for the CHANGE in philosophy over at USC School of Cinema. Now Chapman University - these all came, come from Milos Forman and Frantisek Daniel. They've given all and EACH of us ... LIVES. We'd never have had. God Bless you, Milos - God Bless Frank in his Palm Springs resting location - ...
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All of his former students love, just love Milos.
Milos sidekick and producing partner:
The late, great Frantisek Daniel.
Both making stars out of their early students, i.e. Albert Berger, David Weber, Don Bohlinger,
Martin Daniel (Frank's kid), David Howard, David Lynch, Ihor Paul Wolansky, David Werner, James Nathan, Roy Cohn, Michael Schmulevich, Hugo Cassirer, Joseph Minion, Jim Koch , Barbara Zitwer - I could go on and on.
and on
About the gifted, good-natured, hard-working students around me.
-about Milos, about Frank.
-About their INNOVATIVE and ORIGINAL writing program. A FIRST an absolute FIRST of its' kind. ROOTED in
famed Prague history, hardcore BELIEFS about writing:
"It starts with the page..."
"Only the page matters."
"Stories are DRAMATIZED from within..."
You usually won't see a former Columbia writer nominally add car chases, explosions, drug sub-plots - at Columbia this
was to be BENEATH us - i.e. sub PAR writing - LAZY.
How DARE we !!!?
RELENTLESS in our instruction - they'd REFUSE to let their best students... turn in anything BUT that student's
best POSSIBLE effort. They'd fight you if you turned in something SUB-par, they'd said no, go back to it - it doesn't
work for reasons a, b and/or c. "How come your characters never eat?"
Milos and Frank missed NOTHING.
@ (it was the same Columbia U. program installed by Milos and Frank - that went over to USC School of Cinema early 90's -
turned USC into just as much a writing as a producing school/program. Now it's USC at the top of the heap. BECAUSE
Frank Daniel went there -rumored to be the suggestion/advice of one S-Speilberg.)
I could go on and on and on.
About Milos and Frank's character, integrity - absolute RIGID standards of writing, the page, being original - finding one's
VOICES regardless of how LONG it took or takes).
About their BELIEF in all of us.
"You ...will ... BE there" said Frank one night over beer at our favorite haunt: The West End Cafe (I was starting to panic)
THEIR program was responsible for the future superstars, the Simon Kinberg's and James Mangold's -
Responsible for the CHANGE in philosophy over at USC School of Cinema.
Now Chapman University - these all came, come from Milos Forman and Frantisek Daniel.
They've given all and EACH of us ...
LIVES.
We'd never have had.
God Bless you, Milos - God Bless Frank in his Palm Springs resting location -
...