Life Of Dan - Abridged

I have a confession to make.

There is a skeleton in my closet.

I've kept it hidden away for years, but the time has come to open the door on the awful truth...

I AM A RECOVERING ACADEMIC.

I'm a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Pomona College, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow with an M.A. and Ph.D from Princeton, and a former Associate Professor of English at DePauw University.

I'm so ashamed.

But I've enrolled in a twelve-step program that has saved my life as well as my very soul.

I have renounced jargon and my addiction to it.

I have suppressed my contempt for the intellectual pygmies who surround me and have embraced humility.

I am even trying hard to listen to voices other than my own.

It's a monumental struggle; there have been set-backs; and there will, I am sure, be other failures in the future. But I am determined to put this terrible past behind me once and for all.

So there you have it: my humiliating beginnings.

And now, for the rest of the story, I'd like to turn to my official biographer, Greg Cunningham.

"After earning a doctorate at Princeton, Dan Bronson taught English and American literature at Indiana's DePauw University. His consuming passion for the movies inspired him to create a film program at DePauw and later led to an internship at Universal Studios, where his mentors included Academy Award winning writer-director George Seaton, legendary film editor Verna Fields, and acclaimed producer-director Gilbert Cates.

"Dan went on to a career as a story analyst at Universal, Fox and Paramount, as Associate Story Editor at Filmways, and eventually, as Executive Story Editor at Paramount Pictures, where he found and recommended such varied films as Witness and Pretty in Pink. He wrote the story notes for many Paramount productions, including Top Gun and Young Sherlock Holmes, and supervised the early development of Godfather III.

"A call from Jeffrey Katzenberg lured Dan to Disney, where he began a career as an independent writer-producer, working not just at Disney but also at Interscope, Paramount, Tri-Star, MGM, Orion, Largo, HBO, USA, CBS, NBC, and ABC. He did uncredited work on Marlee Matlin's Hear No Evil and John McTiernan's Die Hard: With a Vengeance, but is best known for HBO's Ed Harris thriller The Last Innocent Man and NBC's Death of a Cheerleader.

"Dan is currently writing books and has just completed a memoir he calls Confessions of a Hollywood Nobody."

Life of Dan - Complete and Unexpurgated | Life of Dan - The Photoplays

Life of Dan - Complete and Unexpurgated

You want the whole sordid story? The behind-the-scenes dirt that nobody dared dish until now? Consult my heartbreaking work of staggering genius, Confessions of a Hollywood Nobody. Simply click on this convenient link. Life of Dan - Abridged | Life of Dan - The Photoplays

Life of Dan - The Photoplays

• Whispers, Interscope
  Thriller adapted from the Dean Koontz novel.
• The Last Innocent Man, Spec Script
  Courtroom drama adapted from the Phillip Margolin novel. Produced as an HBO original: A Roger Spottiswoode film starring Ed Harris - six ACE nominations including Best Picture and Best Writer. Additional Credit: Associate Producer.
• Blood Money, Disney
  Action thriller.
• Manhunt, Disney/Paramount
  Action Thriller
• In a Lonely Place, Hudson-Hawk/Tri-Star
  Remake of the Humphrey Bogart film for Bruce Willis.
• Truants, Spec Script
  Rite of passage adapted from the novel by Ron Carlson. Optioned by Smoking Gun Productions (Cassian Elwes).
• Double Exposure, MGM
  Comedy thriller in the vein of North by Northwest.
• Silencer, Orion
  Erotic thriller for Academy award Winner Marlee Matlin. Reworked and released as Hear No Evil (uncredited).
• Black Tide, Ohlmeyer/ABC
  Docudrama about the Exxon-Valdez oil spill.
• Bloodbrothers, MTE/USA
  Hitchcock thriller. Produced as A Taste for Killing, starring Jason Bateman, Henry Thomas, and Michael Biehn.
• The Wire, MTE/USA
  Noir thriller.
• A Friend To Die For, Steve White Prods./NBC
  A William A. Graham film starring Kellie Martin and Valerie Harper. Additional Credit: Co-Executive Producer.
• Moving Target, JVC/Largo
  Action thriller
• Talk To Me, Steve White Ent./ABC
  A Graeme Campbell film starring Yasmine Bleeth, Veronical Hamel and Peter Scolari.
• Flesh and Blood, Scripps-Howard
  True-life version of Innocent Blood.
• Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Cinergi/Fox
  Uncredited rewrites of the John McTiernan film starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.
• Juggernaut, Tongue River/MGM
  Sci-Fi action thriller for director John McTiernan.
• Beauty's Revenge, Steve White Ent./NBC
  Black comedy produced as a William A. Graham film starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and Tracy Gold. Co-Executive Producer only.
• Alibi for Murder, Orly Adelson Prods./ABC
  True-life version of Gaslight.
• Murder for Hire, DePasse Entertainment/NBC
  Black comedy: Fargo in Florida.
• Flyboys, Tongue River/JVS
  Period action-adventure for director John McTiernan.
• Lord Jim, David Foster Prods.
  Adaptation of the Joseph Conrad masterpiece.
• Gone But Not Forgotten, Donna Dubrow Prods.
  Courtroom thriller adapted from the Phillip Margolin best-seller.
• Fire and Ice, David Foster Prods.
  Action adventure set in Antarctica.
• Needle, Film Colony
  Earth-based science fiction adapted from the Hal Clement classic.
• Fool's Gold, David Foster Prods.
  A reworking of the legend of the Lost Dutchman's Mine.
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Life of Dan - Abridged | Complete and Unexpurgated