[Samuel Rubin]

Are we supposed to post the feedback with the writer’s “one-page” or in a separate place? If so, where? Email that person? I keep getting thrown back to Assignment One, where the machine is telling me that I haven’t finished the first assignment. I have finished it and I don’t know where to post the feedback. Even so, I’m not convinced that the machine won’t kick me out as all the green boxes are already checked. Can you help me out with this? Thanks, Sam

[Samuel Rubin]

PS: This is my one window of time to work on this. So, I’m feeling a bit like I’m treading water because the system won’t let me move forward.

[Samuel Rubin]

It looked like the assignment was to give feedback on another writer’s one-pager. Where are we supposed to post that feedback?

[Samuel Rubin]

Sam Rubin’s Logline and One-pager:

What I learned from doing this assignment is about trimming the detail to get to the bones of the story.

Logline: An autistic deli worker tries to befriend a beautiful customer only to find that his intense OCD-like pursuit of her leads him straight into the dangerous web of a serial killer on the loose.

Working Title: Deli Boy

One page overview:

When we meet Ethan, late 20s, an artist with high-functioning autism, he is in a therapy session with Gwen working on his social skills with women. By day, he works in a NYC deli.

Clara, mid-20’s, a grad-student at Columbia, enters the deli for a sandwich. She’s beautiful. It’s love at first sight for Ethan. Seamus, late 20s, enters. He’s quite disagreeable and “doesn’t smell right” which Ethan attributes to his synesthesia.

When he returns to his apartment, Ethan’s roommate, Stanley, a gum-shoe wanna-be with Tourette’s Syndrome, tells Ethan about The Gotham Slasher who is a serial killer going after college-aged women. Stanley is taking an online class in how to be a detective. He says he’s going to crack the case.

Day after day, Clara comes to the deli for her sandwich. Ethan finally works up the nerve to invite her to his upcoming art show which Clara attends with Gwen, her friend, his therapist. Ethan awkwardly asks Clara if she would pose for him. She, of course, turns him down.
Seamus, also at the show, commandeers Clara away from the event, to see his famous family’s personal fine art collection worth millions. When they leave, Stanley tails Seamus and Clara to Seamus’ high-end Upper West Side apartment. Seamus’ seduction of Clara begins.

Back at their apartment, Stanley goes on a diatribe about how serial killers work…seduction is part of the pattern. Ethan is concerned and agrees to help Stanley with his case.

Clara invites Ethan to come to her class to show some of his art work as part of her presentation for her paper, comparing Ethan’s bagel-figure-fusion art with Bruegel’s “The Peasant Wedding.” This infuriates Seamus who asks questions of Ethan, intended to humiliate him. But, Ethan’s responses are so sincere that Seamus looks like a jerk. Clara defends her position that Ethan’s work is relevant. When the class is over, Clara thanks Ethan for coming and apologizes for Seamus’ appalling behavior. Ethan says something profound about art and the impermanence of it—and life—that makes Clara think he may be deeper than he appears to be on the surface.

Clara doesn’t show up at the deli the next day. Stanley announces that he has figured out The Gotham Slasher’s pattern and suggests to Ethan that Seamus is the potential killer. Glenda, the gallery owner, calls Ethan to inform him that his work has been vandalized. All the bagel sculptures have a bite out them and someone has spray-painted on the walls, “Stay away from Clara. She’s mine.” Ethan remarks to Glenda that he hopes the villain had a good meal because it’s going to be his last; He used toxic epoxy to glaze the work. Ingestion causes certain death.

Seamus ends up dead. Clara is found by the police at his apartment, handcuffed in a closet. Stanley has cracked the case. And Ethan ends up in the position of “nice guys finish last.” Clara might pose for him after all.

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[Samuel Rubin]

“I agree to the terms of this release form.”

[Samuel Rubin]

Sam Rubin here, again… Something unique about me. I am on the autism spectrum. I sing opera. This summer, I performed in two opera…La Traviata and Iolanthe. I love the ritual of it.

[Samuel Rubin]

Hi! My name is Sam Rubin.

I’ve written and filmed a bunch of shorts and had some of my short films make it into film festivals, including winning a director’s award at the LA Film Fest.

I’ve written three full-length scripts. The one I’m bringing to this learning experience is the third one. It’s got a few problems and I look forward to the support I hope to get from this class.

~ Sam

[Samuel Rubin]

Thank you, Ken. I think there is a glitch in the system. I have been requesting a password change. I’ve made the request twice. I was sent a link to do it from Cheryl, but after I input my username (my email), I received nothing/nada for changing the password. … Anyway, I see that you’ve requested to partner up. I accepted. I need to let you know, however, that I am already behind due to other obligations. I thought the course was going to be self-paced, not a sprint. So, I’m making my way, but at a pace I can handle with my other deadlines. ~ Sam (samrubinactor@gmail.com)

[Samuel Rubin]

Hey Lisa, I wasn’t able to get into the system for the last three days. Please send me your email as well, so we can communicate that way, as well. I got your assignment from Marian (I asked her to send it to me.) We supposed to be commenting on each other’s work, right? I’ll look at it tomorrow. ~ Sam [samrubinactor@gmail.com]

[Samuel Rubin]

Great! Thanks. Also, please send me your email. I think it’s a good back up.

[Samuel Rubin]

Hi Lisa, Do you have a partner? If not, would you consider partnering up with me? I think your story is beautiful. ~ Sam [samrubinactor@gmail.com]