Martin Copeland

La Love Stories Martin Copeland

Stories that raise the question: in the City of Angels, is Cupid just another out-of-work actor?1. DON'T SPIT ON THIS PITCH. Project proposal for animated feature film "Hollywood or Burst" by Frances Abigail YeardleyA successful screenwriter pitches an animated film for adults about 3 LA wannabes looking for fame, fortune and if time permits, love.2. FIRST LOVE. PART 1. When a New York doctor and LA film director fall in love for the first time on a hiking trip they must manage dream and reality across the wide continent that separates them.3. BEACHED IN VENICE. Failure to perform belittles our hapless hero in this Kafkaesque tale.4. TINSELTOWN. A hick comes to Hollywood looking for the kind of divine platinum blondes he's seen in the movies, only to find that celluloid can be deceiving.5. A LESSON IN LOVE. Former swinger, now happily married Jack Winston tries to straighten out his hormonal teenage sons with a cautionary tale about his own history looking for love in all the wrong places.6. FIRST LOVE. PART 2.7. TOO DEEP FOR TEARS, featuring Private Detective John Marriner. The corpse of a former nun turned actress/model has been found in the desert near Joshua Tree National Park and her onetime Mother Superior asks Banning private detective John Marriner--a decorated war veteran with stress and other disorders--to search for her killer on the mean streets of LA, where he was last seen bitchslapping the city Police Chief.8. HONEST ABE. A salesman looks back at the life and career of his boss, the honestest used car dealer in the Southern California heartland.9. FIRST LOVE. PART 3.