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A Tulsa high school teacher brings his can’t-miss screenplay to Hollywood, looking to win the Holy Grail of movie awards, a Pudgie, and six years later he is still driving a beer truck in the shadow of the Hollywood sign.

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I came to this story because I love Sunset Boulevard, but I did not want to write a bitter Hollywood story. I wanted something with dreams, absurdity, heartbreak, and hope, something closer to a modern fairy tale where the dream may be bruised, but it is still alive. The Pudgie became my way of writing about Hollywood without surrendering to cynicism.

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The Pudgie is a warm, offbeat Hollywood comedy about people who keep believing long after the dream should have worn off. Beneath the humor, it is a story about longing, dignity, creative survival, and the strange, beautiful souls who gather around broken dreams and keep them alive anyway. The screenplay opens with Davey driving a beer truck down Hollywood Boulevard, still carrying the ghost of the great script that once brought him to town.

A Tulsa high school teacher brings his can’t-miss screenplay to Hollywood, looking to win the Holy Grail of movie awards, a Pudgie, and six years later he is still driving a beer truck in the shadow of the Hollywood sign.

Pudgie...

And the

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A hopeful writer comes to Hollywood and finds love among broken dreamers.

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