Missing: Dallas Schulze

Dallas Schulze spent her childhood debating the relative merits of being a Playboy bunny or a nuclear physicist. When she realized that the former would require her to spend her life in high heels and the latter would call for more than rudimentary math skills, she looked around for an alternative career choice and found it in her love of reading. She sold her first book when she was 24, in October 1983, and hasn't looked back since.

She started out trying to write Regencies and gave it up when she realized she had no idea how long it would take her hero to get from London to Kent. This was in the days before the Internet put research at your fingertips, and she had no idea how to track down this kind of information. She promptly switched to contemporaries. As a Harlequin American Romance author, Dallas Schulze published 15 romance novels. Her latest release was Somewhere Past Forever in 2004; since then about a book a year by Dallas Schulze was reprinted by Harlequin, but no new release.

She currently lives in California, in a seventy year old Spanish Mediterranean house with nifty handmade tiles on the roof and huge opuntia cactus growing out front, with her husband and one very large, very spoiled cat, named Chloe. When she's not writing, she can be found waging a halfhearted war with the weeds in her garden or making quilts.

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Missing: Dallas Schulze

Dallas Schulze spent her childhood debating the relative merits of being a Playboy bunny or a nuclear physicist. When she realized that the former would require her to spend her life in high heels and the latter would call for more than rudimentary math skills, she looked around for an alternative career choice and found it in her love of reading. She sold her first book when she was 24, in October 1983, and hasn't looked back since.

She started out trying to write Regencies and gave it up when she realized she had no idea how long it would take her hero to get from London to Kent. This was in the days before the Internet put research at your fingertips, and she had no idea how to track down this kind of information. She promptly switched to contemporaries. As a Harlequin American Romance author, Dallas Schulze published 15 romance novels. Her latest release was Somewhere Past Forever in 2004; since then about a book a year by Dallas Schulze was reprinted by Harlequin, but no new release.

She currently lives in California, in a seventy year old Spanish Mediterranean house with nifty handmade tiles on the roof and huge opuntia cactus growing out front, with her husband and one very large, very spoiled cat, named Chloe. When she's not writing, she can be found waging a halfhearted war with the weeds in her garden or making quilts.

To read more:

http://rosaromance.splinder.com/post/19858885/

Vacationland (2006) directed by Todd Verow

Director: Todd Verow

Writers: Jim Dwyer (screenplay)
Todd Verow (screenplay)
Todd Verow (story)

Release Date: 15 February 2006 (Berlin International Film Festival)
2 August 2006 (New York City, New York)

Genre: Drama

Plot: Filmmaker Todd Verow revisits his own youth for his latest work. The film’s main character is Joe, who, like the director, grew up in Bangor in Maine. Joe lives with his single mother and older sister Theresa on a notorious council estate called “Capehart Projects”. Molested at the age of ten, Joe nevertheless decides to keep the incident to himself. He befriends an older artist named Victor and moves in with him, hoping to escape Bangor with his help.

Todd Verow: “You grow up fast in the Capehart projects. There was always some new terror happening close by. A woman smothering her baby because she thought it was the Antichrist, maybe she was right – who are we to judge. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Antichrist were born here, or Christ, for that matter. There was the guy who burned down his apartment because his family wouldn’t let him watch his favourite Christmas special – which of course is the only logical thing to do. And then there was the woman who killed her husband and cut him into 15 pieces – ‘just to make sure.’ There was the woman who lived next door who was found sitting in her car naked with her throat slit ear to ear and her hands on the wheel, her eyes wide open. (…) In a strange way it made me feel like anything was possible.”

A superb film about a gay teenager grappling with his sexuality. --San Francisco Bay Times

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Cast (in credits order)
Brad Hallowell ... Joe
Gregory J. Lucas ... Andrew (as Gregory L. Lucas)
Hilary Mann ... Theresa
Michael Dion ... Tim (as Michael John Dion)
Charles Ard ... Victor
Jennifer Stackpole ... Mandy
Mindy Hofman ... Kris
Nathan Johnson ... Mr. LaBlanc
Theodore Bouloukos ... Richard
Gregg Anderson ... Sandi
( rest of the cast )

 

( trailer )

Vacationland (2006) directed by Todd Verow

Director: Todd Verow

Writers: Jim Dwyer (screenplay)
Todd Verow (screenplay)
Todd Verow (story)

Release Date: 15 February 2006 (Berlin International Film Festival)
2 August 2006 (New York City, New York)

Genre: Drama

Plot: Filmmaker Todd Verow revisits his own youth for his latest work. The film’s main character is Joe, who, like the director, grew up in Bangor in Maine. Joe lives with his single mother and older sister Theresa on a notorious council estate called “Capehart Projects”. Molested at the age of ten, Joe nevertheless decides to keep the incident to himself. He befriends an older artist named Victor and moves in with him, hoping to escape Bangor with his help.

Todd Verow: “You grow up fast in the Capehart projects. There was always some new terror happening close by. A woman smothering her baby because she thought it was the Antichrist, maybe she was right – who are we to judge. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Antichrist were born here, or Christ, for that matter. There was the guy who burned down his apartment because his family wouldn’t let him watch his favourite Christmas special – which of course is the only logical thing to do. And then there was the woman who killed her husband and cut him into 15 pieces – ‘just to make sure.’ There was the woman who lived next door who was found sitting in her car naked with her throat slit ear to ear and her hands on the wheel, her eyes wide open. (…) In a strange way it made me feel like anything was possible.”

A superb film about a gay teenager grappling with his sexuality. --San Francisco Bay Times

@IMDb
@Amazon: Vacationland
@Netflix 

 

( more pics )

Cast (in credits order)
Brad Hallowell ... Joe
Gregory J. Lucas ... Andrew (as Gregory L. Lucas)
Hilary Mann ... Theresa
Michael Dion ... Tim (as Michael John Dion)
Charles Ard ... Victor
Jennifer Stackpole ... Mandy
Mindy Hofman ... Kris
Nathan Johnson ... Mr. LaBlanc
Theodore Bouloukos ... Richard
Gregg Anderson ... Sandi
( rest of the cast )

 

( trailer )