We did it…we got through that… but picture sports stars… it’s a family portrait…

I’m almost done with the images. I’m going to move on to text. Clean that up. Little Miss Sunshine — that’s the beginning: she goes and gets this girl — you’re going to be in for a musical treat, a ride back like you never thought possible. We’re getting REAL. “Pay attention.” To the words…

She’s teaching me Barbara Streisand, not singing, teaching. Instruction.

Just her honking to Julio Iglesias. DAMMIT.

Clap.

Dancing at the red light. Windows DOWN. Trumpets.

Passing Penguins.

She looks.

Never been. Not my side of town.

So, now, in looking at this, since music is the container for the Bible. It’s an album. The last page is a jacket: simply the best love songs…I think the cover works. I just put a lambda sticker over that love song CD on the front cover, one that pops too, it looks more 90s.

I made that collage for fun. She tells me all these stories. She showed me the moonlight on the ocean that night. So funny, touching.

I’ll simplify it because a lambada album doesn’t appear anywhere else.

I needed to get some real sports shots for the physicality, the passion, the seriousness of the game.

I’m almost ready to show him a true draft. There. This is my third draft. I had to do this one…totally on my own. I obviously want to figure it out, you know what I mean? It’s my art, my composition. I have never had so much fun, I must admit. It’s totally possible.

The dynamism of the composition is my question now — the physicality, the movement in it. I have those great shots of Penelope Cruz dancing in Immensità. Totally right. Her in the car. Nina from The Forbidden Dance— I feel for the humor it needs to be there, so she’s later on…since it’s beyond true…she’s dancing regardless if her home is in danger, you understand, it’s even on…we’re watching it…the lambada did indeed take the world by storm that year… it was everywhere. There were like two movies? We saw them. Her fast-forwarding to the sexy parts is truly funny. Her heat is really funny.

They’re a legit tennis family. The eldest married someone from the tennis club. The 2nd and 6th play tennis, but they aren’t as crazy as the rest of them are. Jo is the doctor and Nicole is the astrologist. Perfect. Angelita is basically in a uniform. Tennis skirt. That’s all she should wear. At the parties, it’s a different story…Jose should be in black. No? Ben Stiller.

I’m going to sit with the images…let that rest a second and determine if they need to be tighter and focused — like — all movement? The psychological shots of Penelope are important, I feel. I was going to put a music video, too, some singer in the throes… it’s not a movie reference, but… again, the passion, dynamism…

So that’s my question now. Then, haha, oh yeah, that hilarious shot between the kids in Parenthood.

But at least, he can go, maybe you don’t need this…I don’t know how to capture all the tones. I understand I don’t need to, but it’s a real situation that went down that was a true blend in styles…I think I might put back Howard, I’ve seen a few too many movies and it’s 1:20 AM, just because of how the camera moves — that’s an ensemble piece.

I don’t know how far outside the house I’m going to take the movie…there’s that scene where Kinnear goes to the hotel to have a scene about his work…I’m not going outside, in a sense, as of right now. I do see us in the mini van —I see the potential for that — I just don’t know yet… They’re always coming home, going to, their coaches are at the lambada parties, the teams They are just always with their sport. I take a tennis lesson in the beginning— I chucked a racket over a love song being sung to me…by an adult male…yelling I am four.

Now, I’m just going to be with the piece itself…since I’m working out the story and structure…thinking more about them… which I always was… but that team feel is “tone and structure…” my situation was already — a hot potato. But I have to bond with them, which I do, or they have to support me through this, I have to become one of them… she always said I could have been a great tennis player lol. Backhand. Everyone…got that — baby rage. So maybe I’ll find some release there.

I’m just thrilled — I’m going to go to bed and just get back to it tomorrow…