DAN SANDERS writings

DAN SANDERS writing

SCREENWRITING Dan has completed a script with Alex Lasker, writer of such films as TEARS OF THE SUN, FIREFOX, and BEYOND RANGOON. Two script samples from Dan: THE BISMARCK The pursuit and sinking of the awesome German battleship in the early days of World War II. OUT THERE A psychopathic fugitive from another galaxy taps our TV signals in space and becomes obsessed with a teenage actress in a 1970s sitcom. He sneaks to Earth to hide -- and to stalk her.	PUBLICIST / PRESS RELEASES For PBS' SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS NASA plots "mankind’s second stepping-stone into the cosmic pond -- Mars." For PBS' INTIMATE STRANGERS: UNSEEN LIFE ON EARTH Microbiologist Carl Woese goes in search of Eden's Tree of Life; Dr. C.J. Peters traces the origins of the Hanta Virus to before the time of Christ. For PBS' BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN AMERICA How do we aid the underclass, in a country wary of race-based decision making?
MASTERPIECE THEATER (PBS) For CORA UNASHAMED, starring Regina Taylor and Cherry Jones: BESSIE SMITH is a profile of the blues legend; WHO KILLED JESSIE STUDEVANT? looks at the role of abortion in Depression-era America. For A DEATH IN THE FAMILY, starring Annabeth Gish and James Cromwell: JAY FOLLET'S MODEL T, about the car that changed American life; and RUFUS, FATHERLESS, about the theme of the fatherless boy in literature. For THE PONDER HEART, starring JoBeth Williams and Peter MacNicol: THE HOUSE OF EDNA EARLE, a historical look at boarding houses in the postwar South. For THE SONG OF THE LARK, starring Alison Elliott and Maximilian Schell: FROM NOVEL TO FILM, about the myriad challenges faced by screenwriters in adapting literary classics into motion pictures. For THE AMERICAN, starring Matthew Modine and Diana Rigg: THE LATE, UNLAMENTED HENRY JAMES, an essay on why the 19th-century master still has a place in a 21st-century classroom. THE CONSCIENCE OF A TROUBLED LAND: FANNY KEMBLE Tells the remarkable story of the story of the star actress, trapped wife, and great foe of slavery. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND HIS MEMORY PLAY "Everything a writer produces is his inner history, transposed into another time," America's greatest playwright once said. But the 'inner history' may not be what really happened.	BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (BBC) A DOLL'S HOUSE Henrik Ibsen's 1879 classic. Juliet Stevenson and Trevor Eve star. THE BUCCANEERS The miniseries adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel, starring Mira Sorvino and Alison Elliott. ARTIST UNKNOWN Documentary of a young man in search of his African past. EVIDENCE OF VIKINGS New archeology proves they were less the raping, pillaging brutes of popular myth than brilliant seafarers and traders. Documentary. POCAHONTAS, HER TRUE STORY Who was she, really? Documentary. I DON'T WANT TO BE REMEMBERED AS A CHAIR A look at the very last Shaker settlement, where the lures of modern society and the sect's vows of celibacy have winnowed their ranks to just nine stalwarts. Documentary. MAGAZINE WRITING LOOK HOMEWARD THESPIAN "Tonight, the Fall Play closes at the high school I attended a quarter-century ago, and I'm going." Dan's tribute to Larry Daw, teacher and friend. This article originally appeared in Teaching Theatre magazine. A SECOND HOMECOMING "They chose this boy to leave the orphanage with them because his ears stuck out." An American high school choir teacher, adopted from Greece as an infant and now taking his choir there, recalls his search for his birth mother. GAME SHOW WRITING CRAM (Game Show Network) and DIRTY ROTTEN CHEATER (PAX Network).
PBS SERIES "THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT" THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS Think today's presidential campaigns are dirty? Things were once much worse. MUSIC TO WIN THE WHITE HOUSE BY A history of presidential campaign songs. THE PLAYERS: AN INTERVIEW SERIES THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER Colin Powell, Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Brent Scowcroft THE CAMPAIGN COMMANDER James A. Baker III, Susan Estrich, and Stuart Spencer THE SECRET SERVICE AGENT Hamilton Brown, Malcolm Landry, Frank O'Donnell, and Gayle Moore	5000-WORD BIOGRAPHIES FOR "THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT" 5000-WORD BIOGRAPHIES ON THE FOLLOWING U.S. PRESIDENTS: GEORGE WASHINGTON Coming Soon ANDREW JACKSON Coming Soon ULYSSES S. GRANT Coming Soon RUTHERFORD B. HAYES Coming Soon FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT JOHN F. KENNEDY LYNDON JOHNSON Coming Soon RICHARD NIXON Coming Soon
NEWSPAPER WRITING SOME MAKE INTERNET'S PROMISE A WEB OF LIES Dan's older brother went missing in New York for several days after 9/11; afterward, he wrote this for the Los Angeles Times. BRENTWOOD RESIDENTS, VETERANS PROTEST The fight over the biggest California real estate prize in a century. From the Brentwood News.	ENCYCLOPEDIA FORMAT THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CELEBRITY CRIME The mostly amusing, sometimes harrowing deeds of famous lawbreakers. Entries for Fatty Arbuckle, Scott Caan, Chevy Chase, Bill Gates, Sophia Loren, Al Pacino, The Platters, Tupac Shakur, and O.J. Simpson. NOTE: The text for this book has not yet been legally vetted for publication, and is for demonstration purposes only; the author assumes no responsibility for unintended factual errors. By proceeding to this text, the reader hereby understands and agrees to these conditions and potential errors.
PLAYWRIGHT WORK CYBER It's 1994, the heady early days of social networking. A rich Los Angeles screenwriter and an impoverished woman from rural Oregon stumble upon one another in an online chat room. Both Becky and Blaine are long-married, principled, and neither is inclined towards the quagmire of a conventional affair. But in the chat room they can tell each other things they can't tell spouses or friends. Their encounters soon advance from a harmless dalliance to an entanglement as profound as any other. Is it adultery? ...Here’s what really happened when Americans' 50-megahertz computers told them 'You’ve Got Mail.'	SHORT STORY SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF It is Bicentennial Day, 1976: "He photographed and developed slides -- for physician's archives and research and medical journal articles. Expertly lurid shots of blasted limbs, stinking burns, pestilences from something he thought the grim doctors called Asian Orange." LONG-FORM FICTION AN EXCERPT FROM DAN'S UPCOMING NOVEL, AM/FM A tale of rock and roll radio, from the early 50s to the early 70s. *Coming Soon*
AUTOMOTIVE WRITING LIFE AFTER PRIUS When gas prices go insane and Toyota's wonder car can't be had, what to do? BEST MPG / UNDER $20K Finding the right mix of fuel economy and sticker price. BIGGER DOESN'T MEAN SAFER Exploding the myth that bigger vehicles are your best hope in an accident. I SEE RED, THEY SEE GREEN An editorial on the coming scourge of cameras at busy traffic intersections. JAY FOLLET'S MODEL T A look back at the Model T, the car that changed American life.	COPYWRITING SAMPLE WEB BOOTH Ad copy for an Internet access outlet. FUNDRAISING PITCH SAMPLE For a high school choir.