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does anyone knows what this is going to be about?


I cant believe I'm the first one to write here :)

well, does anyone knows what this is going to be about?

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Sounds intresting, But the cast is not to big yet.

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I read this book in Septermber 2004 and it had such a profound effect that I started looking up other references to it. Who was Stuart Browne? How could he have written such a graphic account of someone dying of cancer? You will need a strong stomach to get through some of the passages. But I recommend you do try. It was the only book SB wrote and he died before it was published. So is it an autobiography? In parts I suspect it is, but it is also written in excellent humour and you get a real feeling for the main character. Can't wait for the film to come out.

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Stuart Browne was my father. He died of cancer shortly after completing Dangerous parking, it is true the book is slightly autobiographical but not entirely. This was written by a man so full of life that he lives on in me still.

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“He who holds to himself the joy,
doth the winged thing destroy,
but he who kisses the joy as it flies,
lives in eternity`s sunrise”
(William Blake).

My dear soul:

let me introduce myself first, I am Conchi Cuesta Alonso, a spanish teacher of Art and History. I run the Departament of these both subjects in a High School of León, a province in the north of the country, as well as the workshops of theater and cinema. I am a writer, too, essays, poems ...
I am doing, right now, my doctoral thesis under this captivating and disturbing title:"Cinema and human psicology". (my professors in the University are going cracy about it., ha, ha,..).
I`ve been working in the following titles :"Memento" (memory and oblivion, the human tragedy);"The Count of Montecristo" ( the human being, angel o devil; the two faces we cope with; revenge and forgiveness) and "L.A.Confidential", (dignity and heroism at the workplace...).
"Bowling for Columbine" (american people, a true romance with weapons); and last, but not least, "The Pianist" (a story of survival through the power of beauty...).
I am going to analize patterns of behavior in our society, roles, masks and mirrors of the human being, in diverse periods of time and History.
I`ve done a lot of research using the most varied kind of sources you can imagine,.., but I feel that if I want to give an original aspect to my academic work, I need more than the use of bibliographic archives, about this issues in recent cinematic history, opinions of directors, pundits, etc..
The director of my thesis, Florentino, is putting a lot of pressure on me, and he has warned me, that if I want to do a really great paper, I need to add the personal opinion of the actors who have embodied some of these roles...
And well, this stuff is being a real nightmare for me!!!.
and, well, maybe you can not even believe it, but I`been working about his performances, for my paper for the almost last three years and half of my life, boy!!!..
Always hoping that with my persistence and hard research, someday that lovely promising “SERENDIPITY”word could show me a way of having a direct adress, because I guess the most part of my letters and emails have never reachedhis pearcing eyes of blue...and in the end of the day, fortune always help the audacious people...
“;You can only be a real human being, when you are a creature who fights”Fedro” Platon)
And I hope every of my words will be a seed, a seed of love, admiration and respect for his work, a seed of truth, a seed of beauty, touching his soul, moving his heart in order to help me boy...
I can understand perfectly that an actor`s life is not, of course, such a glamorous one like the fake Tinseltown`s lights could seem at first sight, that you need really to take a break from all the job, and well, find yourself, to develop a real life,with real people (your lovely wife, mother, sister..), on real ground..., If you lose contact with life, your performances as an actor are empty; if you are not in touch with real persons you can not play real emotions: the fear, the joy, the disappointment, the pain, the angst, etc..
As an actor you have to look around you, and to look inside you; to be filled in order to take out all those feelings with just a gaze, a smile, a gesture, a tone of voice... ; and he has done it, baby, so damly well all these years..
I am astonished, as a pundit studying his performances I am completly in awe!!!...
He has always showed and enthusiastic, flawless selflessness, and open minded actitude, free from prejudices, searching characters and films not based on commercial strategies, or based in the vanity of being just the leading man!!!, but based on the finding of roles providing you something more valuable on a personal level and on an artistic one... LIKE YOURS!!!
I`m in awe with your project, because you have chosen the best actor in the world right now to play such a complex, mesmerizing and riveting character like Noah was..
The idea is simply astonishing and I wish you and your whole team the best of lucks and the great sucess you really deserve in the middle of this mediocrity we are surrounded by in current cinema...
I was reading the dark, sad, hopeless and hopeful novel by your father this last summer, and well, I guess I fell in love with his character, with Noah, fighting with his bladder cancer and drugs and alcohol addiction, facing death and remembering his past life with fear, joy, despair and tenderness...
His story is gonna show us the lights and shadows of a life, a stint, an era in the artistic world when everything was possible: to be young, to be sucessful, to make it, to fall down,...; to live means to fall, to be mistaken, to hurt and being hearted,to love and let it go; that`s life: to reach the sky, enjoy our "five minutes of glory", "the splendor in the grass", and then, out of the blue, to fall into Dante`s hell, so as to see our image reflected in his mirror..
A real story where the fear, the joy, the disappoinment, the pain, the angst are present and reflecting our own weaknesses..
Guy is the perfet man to embody all these qualities...; another out of the beaten path, filled with life, strong and weak, as you, ad me, role..
I suppose that to Park, to Park your body on this planet, to live is a dangerous stuff..
Life in the end kills you...
Sometimes you realize success consists of keeping going ahead, never throw the towell..; it`s that resistance, that strengh, courage, the one marking the difference...
To place your whole heart in what you are doing has the snag, many times, you wind up brokenhearted..., but ,well, the important issue is to revive again, always...
A big teaching of life is that what really matters is now what happens to you, but how you handle it, how you are able to facing it...: life, death, lost of illusions, of love, obstacles in your lovely personal or professional projects...
But, well, like Chaplin taught us in "Modern Times" (we are stuyding the film at class right now...): "SMILE".., go ahead through that never ending, promising, lonely, hopeful road, simbol of a possible new brand life...
I`m longing to see the result next year..
Have faith, have courage, be brave, I know you have all these marvellous qualities inside you,and of course your father will be forever in your mind and soul, and in ours too through his wonderful book..., through his sensitive and smart use of words...
It has been a real treat to read his book, in a world where words seem to have lost their precious values...
You can tell so many things about persons wathching the way they use, mix, caress and melt them in their lips...
Words can heal, can illuminate, can wrap you into the beatiful fabric dreams are made of...
Don`t pay attention to all the words of envious people with no talent around you, darling..
Your father had a real gift , so I hope this movie will astonish us with his story,, and this marvellous thespian Guy is, always playing out of the beaten path roles, filled with life, strong and weak, as you, as me, roles with a " beauty blessed by gods", like Goethe would say; always touched with a light melancholy, wounded characters, hurted, beated but never defeated ones, in spite of the losses, keeping still an aura of goodness and hope..
I wish you both of you, I mean Guy and you, a great success, if you want to visit Spain, ha, ha, ha, someday who knows, be my guest I`ll be delighted to show you around my sunny, warm and passionate country.
I think I`quoted all the commonplaces, ha, ha,ha..
Well like the libanese poet, Gibral Jalil Gibran wrote: "in the dew of the little things, the heart finds its dawn and it is refreshed".
I wish you found them, both of you., from the bottom of my heart.
All my love
Who knows, maybe someday I`ll be able of leaving behind those "shadowlands" C. S. Lewis described in such a master way, and cross at the other side of the mirror by the hand of Alice..
Someday, perhaps I could have some talk, coffee and friendship with both of you!!
Sometimes miracles happen and well, like T. S. Elliot would have said:

"if sirens don`t sing to me here.
they will never do!.

MEGAKISSES. AND MEGAHUGS.
CONCHIXXX.





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S.B. was an amzing writer. The protagonist in the book is a famous movie director, known by Martin Scorcese, Coppola, etc. As far as I can tell Stuart Browne was a playwrite and not well known. Regardless, when I read the book I was absolutely convinced the protagonist was the author and somehow I had missed his impact on film. No, I had missed nothing. The protagonist doesn't exist and Martin Scorcese probably had no idea who Stuart Browne was. IT was very well contrived device by the author. Excellent read, very cinematic (since the protagonist is a movie director and the author should have been) should translate to the screen well and open some eyes. The author of this book clearly had a keen outlook on life, tremendous communication skills, and a generous soul. This book is a rare gift, thoughtfully composed and quite moving. AS soon as I finished it I looked into acquiring the rights to adapt it. I was beaten to it and look forward to seeing it come to life.

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I thought that this was an amazing book. I can't wait for the film. Are there any dates as yet?

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Read the script and must say this looks very promising! At times it's so hilariously funny i caught myself laughing out loud! (as they say, only the brits know what real comedy's about!
Can't wait till this hits the screens!

It's based on Stuart Browne's book.

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Read the book - Dangerous Parking by Stuart Browne

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Reading Dangerous Parking at the moment. Finding it extremely hard to put down. I'm from the area the protagonist starts his journey, which is what drew me to choosing the book initially. I lost my father to cancer when I was three years old, 'Dangerous Parking' has helped me to understand just what my dad was going through all those years ago. I didn't know Stuart Browne had died, if this is semi-autobiographic then the world has lost a unique talent, and his family a great husband and father. His humour and wit live on in this book. I only hope the film captures all that's great about the story.


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Reading Dangerous Parking at the moment. Finding it extremely hard to put down. I'm from the area the protagonist starts his journey, which is what drew me to choosing the book initially. I lost my father to cancer when I was three years old, 'Dangerous Parking' has helped me to understand just what my dad was going through all those years ago. I didn't know Stuart Browne had died, if this is semi-autobiographic then the world has lost a unique talent, and his family a great husband and father. His humour and wit live on in this book. I only hope the film captures all that's great about the story.


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