What the heck is "soft-scripted"??

I had a meeting yesterday with the executive producers of "Star-ving", the new webseries that we are doing. They kept referring to the series as "soft-scripted" which is a term I had not heard of before. It seems to be a cross between a scripted and improved series, which means that they have created an outline of sorts - it describes scenes and has some dialogue pre-written, but then it's up to the actors to improvise the rest of the dialogue. I guess you have to have a great director and editor to assemble the whole thing.

This should be lots of fun. There are over 40 roles in the 13 episodes and we have to have them all cast by the end of October, so the next few weeks should be keeping us busy.

On the Kent State front, we had our director, Karen Slade, in from New York last week and we had some really great meetings with talent. One of my favorite actresses, Brittany Snow has agreed to be attached. She loves the era and the role - of a Kent state student who becomes an anti-war activist. Brittany is an incredible talent, having starred in the wonderful NBC series "American Dreams", the film "Hairspray" and most recently in the horror film "Prom Night". We'll be making an offer on the lead male role very soon. Stay tuned for progress reports.

On the non-casting front - I was in D.C. this past weekend and got to see two incredible exhibits at the Smithsonian. In the Museum of Natural History, the recently opened Sant Oceanic Hall has some amazing things about sea life and it's evolution, and there was a biosphere of live butterflies that was like walking around in "Willa Wonka and the Chocolate Factory". Truly amazing. I flew on the wonderful Virgin America and watched 3 movies.... the Martin Scorsese documentary about the Rolling Stones; "Smart People" with Dennis Quaid and Sarah Jessica Parker and another one that I can't remember. Think I will travel with them again.