Jeffrey Alan Schechter

I know I’ve been a bit lax updating movies here at Contour At The Movies lately, but I’ve been making the big push to finish up  my book for Michael Wiese Publishers, ‘My Story Can Beat Up Your Story!’ I’m having a great time writing the book, and I think that’ll show when it’s published […]

So, I was checking out Roger Ebert’s online review for the the movie UP IN THE AIR (my own will be online shortly) when I got to the bottom of the review’s webpage and found this series of sponsored ads automatically pinned to the review by Yahoo’s algorithmic brain: Why these four?  Well, “Online College […]

After waxing poetic about my antique typewriter, I got a message from a fellow here in Toronto who makes me look like the real piker I am. Martin Howard is a collector of antique typewriters and has even gone so far as to have a beautiful, custom display cabinet made to show off his stunning […]

Why was it that I simply HAD to own this typewriter when I saw it at the antique mart?  It’s old, yet incredibly still works perfectly (needs a new ribbon). I wrote one, 120 page script on a typewriter and the subsequent several dozens of thousands of pages since were all done on computers.   […]

Those of you who have been following the “From the Floor” section of this site know that I’ve been working on a Family Channel/Disney Channel series called OVERRULED! which I co-created and am one of the executive producers of.  Well, after several years of production, we finally premiere tonight! Those of you lucky enough to […]