Schiff ‘s Cong/district includes Hollywood. He tried to leverage his govt office to sell a screenplay-—
but Hollywood wasnt buying. Kinda warmed me to Hollywood .......a little.
theforward.com
December 17, 2018
by Alyssa Fisher
Adam Schiff Writes Screenplays On The Side — he shared in his New Yorker profile that not only is he a movie buff (and often quotes “The Big Lebowski”), but also he writes screenplays on the side. There seemed to be more than a tinge of regret in the California congressman’s voice when he recalled the story of his first screenplay, a pre-Holocaust story called “Remnant.” “I had an agent at William Morris tell me it was good but no one would want to see it — too depressing,” he explained. “Then ‘Schindler’s List’ came out, and I was, like, ‘Come on!’ He wrote the next one while a prosecutor, a murder-mystery called “Minotaur,” which he said was almost accepted by Hollywood standards. But, he has high hopes for his third. “It’s a spy drama,” he said. “That one is a work in progress.”
Alyssa Fisher is a news writer at the Forward.
Damn I really liked “The Big Lebowski”, ,but knowing that it is a favorite of Schiff makes me doubt my mind. It certainly changes my thoughts on the movie.
schiff plainly thinks of himself as "the dude".