A man in his young 30’s and a petite young woman in her mid 20’s-both highly intelligent funny misfits-experience a bizarre series of events that are like a cosmic collision course. Both are admitted to a resort like psychiatric hospital. The woman enters the man’s room seconds after the man is admitted after just having cut herself with a razor she snuck in. He is so enthralled by her at first sight he doesn’t realize she is bleeding profusely. But a nurse notices and the woman is taken to the emergency room. This is not the first time she’s done this-she grew up in posh Beverly Hills, abused and neglected. At age 12 she started cutting herself.
The woman returns to the psychiatric hospital. They begin a bizarre and comical relationship spending time together and sharing humorous stories. The man continues to be enthralled, the woman less so. None of this goes unnoticed by the chief nurse-a charismatic woman, in reality a drug addict with psychotic tendencies closely connected to both other drug addicts and other unstable psychological professionals.
The man and woman grow closer unaware the nurse is doing everything she can to sabotage the relationship. It becomes apparent the hospital is incompetent-a young girl is raped by another patient who never should have been admitted. Two patients overdose after sneaking drugs in. Other patients exhibit bizarre comical behavior with stories of their own as everyone interacts. When the woman is discharged the nurse, believing her family to be wealthy, convinces her father to hire her outside the hospital-giving her the opportunity to integrate her friends into the woman’s life in an attempt to control her and get close to the family and their money.
The man leaves the hospital. Searching Craigslist he finds an apartment in Beverly Hills-a roommate situation and enlists the help of the woman in moving in. When the apartment turns out to be next door to the woman’s childhood home-where she was abused and her mother still lives-both are shocked.
The woman begins to feel more romantically receptive to the man-to the dismay of the nurse and her friends. The man receives bizarre and dangerous threats. All of this has made the woman realize the nurse and her friends might not be on her side at all. The threats continue and grow worse for the man and woman escalating into dangerous physical encounters-at times comically inept. The more the man and woman attempt to interact the worse-and more comical-the stalking becomes.
The woman meets and develops a relationship with a European artist. The man does his best to show happiness for her but he is obviously in love with her. The woman and her fiance play roulette and win a great deal of money based on numbers her fiance couldn’t possibly know are significant in highly bizarre events of the man and woman’s relationship. Realizing she loves the man she met in the hospital and wearing her wedding dress, she jumps up from the table-leaving her purse and the money behind running through the casino and out onto the Las Vegas Strip-the weather isn‘t cooperating-it’s one of the rainiest and most thunder and lightning filled nights in years. She has to make it to another hotel before the man leaves-running against both the clock and those following her.
Rodney Peterson
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
DEMENTED CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL ROBERT CATALFAMO THREATENS OBAMAS-CUTTING CONFESSIONS ON TRACK
NOTE: The blogs that actually tell the story of Cutting Confessions occur in blogs that appear below this first blog. Because a demented and dangerous stalker, Robert Catalfamo, is threatening Barack Obama and his family, now including bomb threats, it becomes a necessity to report this insanity here. I have no doubt he is capable of what he says he will do, particularly since he has already tried to strangle and kill me. He has a long rap sheet, including such felonies as gun running and drug dealing in addition to violence on others.
Ultimately, Cutting Confessions is a very unusual and touching love story full of unusual high drama and cutting edge comedy. While it is an unusual story, it is often the unusual stories that become all time beloved classics-and while campaigning for the film in Las Vegas, it occurred to me that just maybe a Las Vegas showroom might be a terrific place for people to enjoy this unusual and fate driven love story-fate in that many of the things that occur in Cutting Confessions are highly unusual and in some cases sort of like winning the lottery and indeed, athough the two central characters first meet in Pasadena the film winds its way to a stunning conclusion in Las Vegas-and since a very unusual round of roulette is involved towards the end, it could be a natural for a long running and highly attended Las Vegas show with talented performers of all types giving it their all and deeply touching the audience.
The Presidential election is over and Barack Obama is President-Elect of the United States. No matter what your politics, the fact of the matter is this is an amazing man who 21 months before the election lost to John McCain in theoretical matchups 510 electoral votes to 28 electoral votes. But determination and a campaign that was second to none showed the character of the man. In many ways, I'm on a similar journey-I know I have a terrific message with this story but just like Barack Obama I face long odds. But that's one of the terrific real life messages of this story-that you can accomplish the nearly impossible with hard work and determination. In this way, just as Barack Obama, I hope Tamar and myself can become a shining example for others.
The real stuff of this story is found at the posts towards the bottom of this page and the Cutting Confessions Film Treatment and Script blog at my MySpace page:
www.myspace.com/370392338
Now the idiocy of Robert Catalfamo, a stalker of extreme proportions, can largely be ignored and indeed, it is possible a number of his actions have taken place because of brain damage from continual drug abuse-how else could you explain a moron that thinks its okay to text message a death and stabbing threat against an innocent 17 year old girl, Bristol Palin and her unborn child, whom he has never met. He continues to stalk and threaten both Tamar and myself, but his actions can now be largely ignored as the nonsensical ravings of a brain damaged idiot. Most of it has been deleted from this blog although I still have many of those threats as they may be needed for prosecution or proof of his insane stalking. And note that although he may be brain damaged, he is still as dangeorus to all members of society as he ever was. There might be valid lawsuits here against various branches of law enforcement if they continue to let him roam free as he is a danger to everybody.
Unfortunately, Robert Catalfamo's threats have recently grown to include President-Elect Barack Obama and his family, specificially his daughters and wife Michelle who he is now sending text messages regarding poisoning them and their classmates, which is highly disturbing in and of itself, but he also is mentioning the fact they are black in addition to this. Here are some of his recent threats-Tamar Hirsch has also received these same types of threats, however the only ones I have immediate access to are the ones I received.
November 20, 2008 11:51 am
U R SOON 2 B DEAD SACK OF SHIT
November 20, 2008 12:03 pm
(me) Really how?
ULL HAV 2 WAIT AND SEE COCKSUCKER U STARTD IT NOW ITS GOING 2 FINISH CANT THRETEN BOMB OBAMA SWEARIN IN WONT GET AWAY WITH IT ASSWIPE
November 20, 2008 12:15 pm
U CAUSE BITCH 2 MANY PROBLEM NO JOB RUIN HER LIFE WITH BLOG MCGEE NO JOB NO APT TONY DEAD UR FAMILY SHAME OF U AND ME U CAUSE ACIDENT NOW ULL PAY COCKSUCKER
November 20, 2008 11:27 am
ALREDY U ASKIN 2 CALL SECRET SERVICE U DONT STOP THRET OBAMA
November 20, 2008 6:57 am
SCUMBAG HAS NO LIFE AND FRIENDS EVERYBODY HATES U SECRET SERVICE READY 2 NAIL U 4 BOMB THRET 2 OBAMA SWEARIN IN
DIABLO CODY NOBODY LIKE U AND SHE HATES U 2 UR ALL OVER WEBSITE UR STAKER 2 HER AND AGENT BOMB THRET 2 OBAMA ONLY CUZ UR JEALOUS NOONE WILL SUFFER CUZ OF U
UR DEAD JUST LIKE U WISH OBAMA WAS XCEPT THIS 4 REAL
November 20, 2008 1:23 am
UR LIAR AND SO JEALOUS OF OBAMA U CANT DENY IT DONT THINK UR GOING 2 GET AWAY WITH BOMB ON BIG DAY COCKSUCKER
November 19, 2008 12:21 pm
ASSWIPE SECRET SERVICE WATCHING UR UGLY MOM 2 4 THRETNING BOMB WHEN OBAMA TURNS PRESIDENT UR FAMILYS BIG SCUMBAGS
MAKING BOMB THRET IS VERY SERIOUS AND BIGGER THRET ON BIGGEST DAY IN HISTORY SCUMBAG
SECRET SERVICE WILL SQUASH U LIKE PANCAKE WEN U GET 2 DC OBAMA THRET SERIOUS ASSWIPE
November 19, 2008 4:39 am
TOLD U BITCH CANT TALK 2 U SHES IN LOCKUP U SHOULD BE 2 SINCE UR ALL OVER INTERNET BEIN DIABLO CODY STOKER MORE CHARGES R PRESSED UR GOIN DOWN REAL FAST LOSER
Note: The threats take a short break here for a couple of paragraphs as I address the issue mentioned in that last text message. There are plenty more of Robert Catalfamo's threats against the Obamas-and even Bristol Palin-to follow.
Note: I couldn't care less about Diablo Cody's personal life, where she lives or any other personal detail about her and am not stalking her and don't want to. I simply have a lot of things in common with her-which is a reality and is nobody's fault-it just is. I realized that while watching Juno and after that I researched her on the internet for a few hours-then I started to feel bad about it-in that I thought I knew more than I needed to-so I stopped. In fact I haven't even read her book about stripping-partly because it would feel creepy. Also, I've worked in strip clubs as a Disc Jockey so I doubt she would have anything to say I don't already know. Doing the research felt creepy after a short while and that's not my intention. My intention is to point out those things as a selling point for my writing. In fact, I went to a seminar hosted by a couple of friends of hers so I could talk to them about MY writing and also mention the commonalities as a way in. The fact is writing is a difficult circle to break into and I need to use every advantage I can and meet as many people as possible.
November 15, 2008 12:59 pm (EXTORTION)
U will ad money 2 my bank america account or else (this was probably typed in lower case (as some of his messages are) to make it look less likely that he wrote it-he also uses this technique if he wants to pose as Tamar usually with the intention of hoping we become angry with each other-you can see that very issue addressed in some of the texts here)
November 12, 2008 8:16 pm
IF U KILL OBAMA DAUTER AND WIFE U WONT GET TRIAL U GO RITE 2 HELL
HA HA HA MY DAD IS PROTECTING ME AND UR SCUMBAG 2 COPS MY DAD TOLD ME UR DONE WITH BY COPS NO PROTECTING
UR DELUSIONS R NOT EXCUSE 2 KILL NIGGER PRESIDENT DAUTER ASSWIPE
November 12, 2008 8:05 pm
THEY HAVE EXTRA PROTECTING OBAMA DAUTER SCHOOL U WONT GET AWAY BOMBING SCHOOL CUZ SHES NIGGER COCKSUCKER
November 11, 2008 9:06 am
MY DADS NOT GOING 2 PRISON BUT U ARE ASSWIPE OBAMA PUT DAUTER IN HIDING 2 PROTECT FROM UR ASS POISON HER
November 9, 2008 4:58 pm
SHUT HELL UP UR NOT GOING 2 GET HER NUMBER (referring to Tamar's mother Ruth) AND UPGRADED 2 HIGH GRADE ALERT 4 POISON OBAMA DAUTER N WIFE UR TARGETED AS NIGGER HATER AND KILLER
November 9, 2008 10:09 am
UR ASKING 4 FULL EXTENT OF LAW IF TEXT OR CALL BITCH AGAIN NOT PLAYING GAMES NIGGER HATER
EAT UR CUM AND DIE TOLD SECRET SERVICE UR FANTASY 2 RAPE OBAMA WIFE AFTER POISON DAUTER
November 9, 2008 8:18 am
ASSWIPE SECRET SERVICE CALLED SAID HOMELESS LOSERS WHO THRETEN OBAMA R REALLY WANTING 2 GET FUCKED IN ASS JUST LIKE BLACK MONKEYS
November 9, 2008 5:22 am
YOUR NOT DETECTIVE AND U R NOT IN CHARGE OF LAWS JUST BCUZ U R STILL FREE DONT MEAN U CAN THRETEN OBAMA DAUTER LOTS OF PROOF U DO HATE CRIME EVEN DID IT
November 8, 2008 10:05 pm
TEXT FROM TAMAR HIRSCH
Its u finally dickhead said i mailed poison 2 obamas daughters school cuz shes black
November 8, 2008 5:33 pm
U WILL BE PUT 2 DEATH 4 OBAMA THRETS LOTS OF PROOF HOW RACIST U R SO WONT GET AWAY WITH IT PSYCHOTIC LOSER
November 8, 2008 8:29 am
HA HA HA KNEW IT WOULD WORK NOW U PSYCHOTIC LOSERS HATE EACH OTHER 2 BAD CANT GO 2 SAME LOCKUP WEN U GET TAKIN IN 4 THRETEN OBAMA DAUTERS
JUST BCUZ PALIN LOST THANKS 2 U UR SORE LOSER SO THRETEN OBAMA AND DAUTER 4 BEING BLACK CANT COVER IT UP BY POSTING BLOGS UR JUST LIKE HIM WONT WORK SCUMBAG
November 7, 2008 8:20 am
NO CHOICE U SHOULDVE THOT ABOUT WAT HAPPENS WEN U MURDER LANDLORD PRESIDENT PALIN AND INNOCENT PEOPLE SCUMBAG
November 7, 2008 7:54 am
2 POISON OBAMA B4 GETS WHITE HOUSE CUZ HES BLACK U WONT BE TOLERATED PSYCHOTIC HOMELESS SCUMBAG
November 1, 2008 1:26 pm
THERE INTERESTED IN U PALIN BUT GUESS UR NOW THRETNING OBAMA AND WILL REPORT U AGAIN 2 SECRET SERVICE
October 28, 2008 11:30 am
TRY BLAMING ME BUT SECRET SERVICE ALREDY KNOW U THRETEND EAT PLAINS CUM B4 MURDERING HER UR FUCKEN STUPID ASSWIPE SECRET SERVICE IS NOT PLAYING WITH UR ASS
Needless to say, this is all the doing of Robert Catalfamo and those are just some of his deranged messages. I admire Barack Obama and his family and would never make the types of threats and statements he is referring to above and in many other of his deranged messages.
The information on Las Encinas Hospital, while tragic, is still interesting and Las Encinas is where part of this story takes place. Speaking of Las Encinas, for many reasons Tamar Hirsch has a valid lawsuit against Las Encinas and we welcome any attorneys who may be interested in the case to discuss it with us. Please also note I am currently searching fervently for an apartment in Los Angeles. My current ceiling is $1155 per month. If you are a property owner in Los Angeles (or an attorney or an industry professional, including industry professionals in Las Vegas that can assist in moving this project forward and finding it a home) please contact me through one of the following methods of contact:
IPhone: 310-498-6394
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
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Now two more members of the Sicilian Catalfamo family may be criminals, including a longtime Los Angeles Police Department Homicide Detective. Robert Catlfamo's younger brother, Scott Catalfamo, was convicted of manufacturing three gallons of the date rape drug GHB in an undercover operation of the Santa Monica Police. The matter of Samuel Catalfamo has been referred to the Citizens Police Commission and the Department of Internal Affairs. Based on the fact at least two of his sons are convicted felons, I think an internal investigation into the career of Samuel Catalfamo is highly warranted. The full report of this is at the MySpace blogs and I am also planning on posting there soon the internal affairs complaint.
If sending a text messaged death and stabbing threat against Bristol Palin and her unborn child weren't enough mayhem for this deluded and dangerous individual to cause, just 48 hours later Robert Catalfamo was driving a 1993 Ford Ranger pickup near Santa Barbara when he caused a three vehicle alcohol related head on collision. The full report of this too is at the MySpace blogs.
Originally this blog started out as a really terrific and highly unique movie. It still is, but months of abuse in the form of death threats, threats of great bodily harm, actual assaults, stabbing of animals, theft of property and bank accounts, illegal cell phone cloning and much more have derailed the project. Tamar Hirsch is a beautiful artistically talented intelligent book lover, seller of rare books and brilliant college student. She has the gift of working with autistic children. Her character in this film will be very dynamic. To read about the movie and skip past the horrible and deadly unpleasant stalking skip to the posts that appear towards the bottom of this website page which due to all the horrible criminal activity and violent text messaging recorded here. You will find portions of a script, a film trailer, my experience when meeting Simpsons producer James L. Brooks on the WGA picket line, my letter to Academy Award Winning Screenwriter Diablo Cody and more, most of it genuinely entertaining and a far cry from the violent criminal activity we have been subjected to since early February of which a portion has been recorded here.
Update August 24, 2008-Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California where much of this story, film and book take place is now under official investigation by the State of California after three deaths and the rape of a 14 year old girl all occured within a period of five months at the facility. Two of those deaths were overdoses within a two day period at Las Encinas Substance Abuse Facility, Nash House, where pop psychologist Dr. Drew Pinsky is one of the co-directors. Dr. Drew is something of a legend at Las Encinas and is looked up to far more than he should be. Conversely, until these incidents occurred and Dr. Drew attempted to distance himself from his department, Las Encinas practically worshipped the ground he walked on and he was the only physican whose picture appeared on the website's home page. Typically Dr. Drew shows up to speak at twelve step meetings at one of the more than century old buildings that dot the 27 acre campus of Las Encinas. Then he leaves immediately afterwards. It is not at all atypical for Dr. Drew's patients to complain of feeling ignored and neglected. Basically a first class asshole Dr. Drew uses vulnernable substance abuse patients as the cornerstone of the very tacky VH1 "reality" program Celebrity Rehab, which most people would have to admit is hardly a good idea for the patients. Not helping the matter at least in the area of self esteem I would imagine is that practically none of the patients are ever actual celebrities. Thinking they may be when they actually aren't can't be helpful for an individual suffering from addiction. If that weren't bad enough unless VH1 rethinks its position Dr. Drew will be offering a spinoff "reality" program Sober Living. In reality, just as Dr. Drew's actual advice and therapy Celebrity Rehab is often a complete joke. Despite being the co-director at the facility where the two overdoses took place Dr. Drew denies any responsibility. That is about to change whether he likes it or not as you will read later.
This is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the incompetency at Aurora Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, the place rumored to be where you can check out but never leave as the inspiration for the Eagles signature hit and album Hotel California. The hospital itself is more than 100 years old and sits amongst 27 beautifully landscaped and forested acres with both a swimming pool and a tennis court.
A woman with a gregarious personality that virtually everyone at the facility liked a great deal, nursing supervisor Robin Motola was fired or asked to resign after being arrested at Lake Havasu after a police check which found she was traveling and partying with drugs-and Las Encinas patients (apparently already released out of the hospital) in a scene which would make Jack Nicholson's One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest lead antagonist McMurphy proud. As a result of the arrest, Robin Motola is no longer allowed to work in psychiatric facilities. She was also reportedly having an affair with the CEO that ran Las Encinas before current CEO Linda Parks who was with her at Lake Havasu which also got him in trouble. And she might have skated by scot free were it not for her deciding this would be a good time to throw caution to the winds and pretend she was in New Orleans to earn beads for Mardi Gras and the police had not been there at the exact moment she decided to go topless.
On the night I was admitted to the hospital and first met Tamar, Robin was running the locked Cherokee unit. It's a unit where acute psychiatric patients are sent for their own safety. But when Tamar was admitted some time before that, she managed to sneak razor blades into the facility, which she should not have been able to. She cut herself-not once, but twice with those razor blades even after being taken away in an ambulance the first time to an emergency room at Pasadena's Huntington Memorial Hospital. Weeks later, she cut herself again without ever having left the unit and keeping the extra razor blades from staff members even after the first incident.
The raging asshole and career criminal stalking us, Robert Catalfamo, who is currently dealing crystal meth and other hard core illegal drugs, was introduced to Tamar by Robin Motola. In very recent years, Las Encinas Aurora Hospital has employed at least four incompetent raging assholes in top positions.
Las Encinas has also spent untold millions of dollars in renovations and luxurious surroundings creating the new and very expensive private Two South facility out of an older second floor wing. All the while CEO Linda Parks was cutting corners in other areas to maximize profits-and apparently too busy to avoid hiring staffers who wouldn't skip room checks or sleep through the rape of a 14 year old girl a few feet away or even to train them and other staff properly. For those of you wondering about how such a thing could happen-the rape of a 14 year old girl in what is a top notch facility, the answer is I don't know. That will be one of the things that will be of keen interest to state investigators. I can tell you the suspect, 16 year old Jonathan Aguilar, has been charged with the rape, forced oral copulation and robbery committed during a rape. This is terrific news and the boy will be charged as an adult and is being held on $1.1 million bail. He had been at a county facility prior to being admitted to Las Encinas so that will of course be one of the things investigators will be examining-it appears to be more negligence on the surface-the boy must have had an extremely violent record and normally not fit for admission under Las Encinas guidelines-and it's all the more bizarre when you realize there is no way, short of escaping the locked unit, that he could get away with this without being caught in a Las Encinas juvenile locked unit. In yet another unbelievable and tragic circumstance of this rape, not only was the boy admitted but so was his parole officer-who too slept right through his charges rape. In all, at least three employees had to be there because of Las Encinas policy which is to always have a charge nurse in each unit on each shift in addition to at least one psychiatric assistant at all times. The parole officer would have been the third person who could have stopped this rape, but did not. As parole officers typically sit right outside the parolees room with the door wide open, obviously the rapist walked right on by the sleeping parole officer to the victims room. These are also tiny units in the back building of Las Encinas with no more than six to twelve patients per unit. I just hope the poor 14 year old girl can someday feel safe and secure in her life after this type of brutal attack.
And it remains to be examined why did not Linda Parks review the Substance Abuse Unit and Nash House to find an actual caring doctor not out to exploit patients on television and who cared more about his patients than his media career-apparently that wasn't important enough of a priority. Las Encinas decided on the profitable person, not the competent one. In many ways and in many venues, Dr. Drew often comes across as a total useless assclown douchebag. Just what the substance abuse unit needed. Although Dr. Drew is a real doctor and a qualified internist he spreads himself too thin probably in a quest for fame and money and proved to be negligent when it comes to co-directing the Las Encinas Substance Abuse Treatment Program. Publicly, he attempted to distance himself from the results of the unit's negligence. It should also be noted one of the suicide victims 23 year old Alex Clyburn was not just an ordinary substance abuse patient-but the son of Arline Clyburn, a former clinical nurse coordinator at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Clinic. Alex wanted to go the Las Encinas facility largely because of Dr. Drew-"But Mom he's so sucsessful". Scant hours later he was dead. Arline Clyburn has enlisted the services of attorney Sean Burke in her upcoming lawsuit against Las Encinas and Dr. Drew. People should note that although Dr. Drew is a real doctor he does NOT and never did have a license to practice psychotherapy or earned a degree in that field of medicine. Recently he has been criticized for analyzing celebrities he has never met, the most well known instance being Scientologist Tom Cruise. Tamar knows of other instances of problems with Dr. Drew partly because her father owns both a private residential psychiatric clinic and two West Hollywood group homes. One of those things, according to Tamar, is a hush hush case involving a Lovelines caller who committed suicide settled out of court. Some Las Encinas partnered psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to work with the hospitals substance abuse unit at least in part because of Dr. Drew's involvement with the facility.
CEO Linda Parks came from the less than stellar BHC Alhambra Hospital a few miles away-and not a top notch facility, as Las Encinas purports itself to be. Tamar suffered abuse, usually in the form of being strapped to a table in a bare room for hours everytime she was unfortunate enough to have to go to BHC Alhambra.
When I met her in 2006, Tamar was at Las Encinas for an extended period of time-until both her Blue Cross Insurance ran out and/or her financially well off father stopped paying for her treatment. For a time she had no insurance and now has MediCare and MediCal. Las Encinas has refused to admit her ever since-even if Las Encinas partnered psychiatrists and psychologists recommended it. It's further evidence of putting the emphasis at Las Encinas under Linda Parks on profits, not patients-or patient care.
IMPORTANT UPDATE
August 9, 2008-Robert Catalfamo is proud of his new job-so proud he notifies Tamar and myself every half hour of his activities. The new job is dealing addictive drugs-crystal meth and others-Catalfamo is a long time crystal meth addict. According to Catalfamo, his supplier deals out of Bakersfield and Catalfamo claims he sells drugs to the Santa Barbara area and Ventura County area and has also bragged about selling drugs in San Francisco. Police reports have been submitted to Southern California, Santa Barbara and Ventura County law enforcement personnel as well as specific agencies charged with the task of curtailing illegal drug activity. Robert Catalfamo's last known address is 1126 East Gutierrez Street in Santa Barbara but he also recently lived at the Casa Esperanza Homeless Shelter there. Robert Catalfamo's birth date is August 8, 1970 and he is driving a vehicle supplied by the drug distribution ring. The most recent information we have is that it is or was a green Toyota-he claimed to switch vehicles after he became aware police had been notified about the green Toyota. Robert Catalfamo has short brown or black hair, is roughly 160 lbs and of Italian descent. He continues to break a valid restraining order issued by a Santa Barbara judge-this alone is enough to imprison him. But as you've read, there is virtually a laundry list of felonies Robert Catalfamo can be charged with.
Catalfamo is a braggart-a huge detriment for a drug dealer. He is an idiot and a pawn but nonetheless his quick incarceration is clearly best for Santa Barbara and all of Southern and Northern California. In the course of his illegal drug dealing and reckless driving while under the influence he could hurt or kill other residents of Southern California during his depraved and insane actions and state of mind. Call the Santa Barbara Police at 805-897-2300 if you have information about Robert Catalfamo or the drug ring he is working with.
Robert Catalfamo continues to break a restraining order issued by a Santa Barbara judge and accuse both Rodney Peterson and Tamar Hirsch of various aspects of fraud and abuse while knowing nothing about the physical and mental situations of each or of their medical and psychological background.
At the same time, Robert Catalfamo is attempting to qualify for state workers compensation through a workers compensation attorney, claiming disability while at the same time bragging about working under the table for $25 an hour plus a vehicle of some sort. Both Labor Ready and Action Roofing of Santa Barbara, two companies which have, to their admitted regret, employed Robert Catalfamo are fighting the procedure (in the case of Action Roofing no action can be taken due to statute limitations and Labor Ready has referred the matter to corporate attorneys.) At the same time Robert Catalfamo continues to torment Tamar Hirsch, breaking federal law by intercepting her texts and e-mails while at the same time sending both Hirsch and Peterson felony death threats, felony threats to commit great bodily harm, and felony sexually suggestive threats mostly to do with anal rape. In Ventura County alone, Robert Catalfamo has 13 offenses on record, the majority drug offenses punishable by imprisonment, which he has experienced quite a lot and where he likely developed his disgusting taste for violent homosexual anal sexual activity. Of the 13 offenses, he has been convicted of ten. Two others remain open and one was dismissed. This is the only county for which we have been able to easily access arrest records so obviously there are more arrests we don't know about yet. Among his other offenses, according to Catalfamo himself, are felony gun running in Oregon and others I didn't even bother to listen to in a message he left on my IPhone.
Catalfamo believes he is above the law and relies on his father, a retired policeman to get him out of trouble. Obviously his track record indicates that doesn't work so well. He also claims to have the Santa Barbara police on his side, a claim which is at best ludicrious.
A hearing is scheduled August 5th in Santa Barbara to extend the protection order. (It has been extended to August 5th, 2011)
Robert Catalfamo just can not get it through his thick head Tamar Hirsch (who he has recently called a cunt and other wonderful endearing names) wants nothing to do with him and has no issue with sabotaging his future as long as he continues to illegally harass her and Peterson.
More detrimental information about Robert Catalfamo: Catalfamo has an unknown number of illegitimate children in California rumored to be at least four and as many as eight at this time which are unsupported and he is constantly attempting to avoid paying child support. Two of the mothers of the illegitimate children are Cheyenne Miller and Katie Lader. If you'd like to call Robert Catalfamo and tell him what a sack of shit he is or if you'd like to send him threats as he has done to us or mess up his phone and/or computer so they don't work or help us gather electronic evidence and/or perform computer forensics on his phone or computer here are at least three known cell numbers from which he has sent us threats: 805-617-8438, 805-617-9627 and 805-617-9635. A brand new number from which he has sent threats in the past few days is 818-916-3947.
More information follows from earlier:
Just in case you weren’t already aware of the obvious, Robert Catalfamo of Santa Barbara, California (often living in the Casa Esperanza homeless shelter there) also known as RC is a demented, depraved and delusional individual.
The latest incident, among many, that proves this is the fact that last week he stabbed a cat in the neck with a knife, gravely injuring the nearly five year old cat named Linus who would have had a birthday a few days later. The reason he did this is because the cat’s owner, a lovely Jewish girl, Tamar Hirsch, who stands four foot eleven inches and weighs just 95 pounds, dared to see her friend, Rodney Peterson, after trying for months to permanently eliminate Catalfamo from her life following death threats, threats of great bodily injury, threats of anal rape and a deep and disturbing homosexual oriented obsession with all things anal sex and anal lube Catalfamo can‘t ever stop thinking of, theft of identity, hijacking cell phones and computers, theft by defrauding her bank accounts and more, all of which he also attempted with Peterson, whom he attempted to murder on April third of this year in Pasadena.
We’ll get to the serious stuff such as the stabbing of Linus in a second but first of all you may enjoy this real laugher. Robert Catalfamo believes he looks something like Tom Cruise and is attractive to women. This is doubtful because of his horrid personality-a personality so horrid and actions so despicable his father, a retired policeman, takes the position of never allowing Robert anywhere near his family. If you take a look at his MySpace photo, you will see his face barely figures in the photo at all. This is a common ploy of ugly people-to say they’re good looking then do anything they can to hide the evidence by making their picture difficult to see. In Catalfamo’s case, he’s such a dipshit that the photo is so poorly cropped half of it is nothing but a bare wall and a ceiling.
Stabbing a cat is an act not far removed from stabbing and murdering a human being, and in fact Robert Catalfamo believes he is entitled to murder, rape or otherwise hurt anyone he wants. In the case of Linus, the cat, he took the time to bond with him months previous to stabbing him. If Italian people are known for their loyalty, there is abso-fucking-lutely NOTHING loyal about stabbing a cat that previous to the incident trusted its assailant and belonged to a girl that at one time was a part of his life. That cat meant everything to Tamar and she really loved it. Robert Catalfamo destroyed that relationship Tamar had taken years to build when he viciously thoughtlessly and cowardly stabbed her cat.
Robert Catalfamo has difficulty holding a job or having a place to live. Nobody in his family wants him anywhere around them-he’s not only a vicious potential serial killer he’s also a loser of almost unimaginable proportions. Consider this quote from his fed up mother “I’m his Mother not his MOMMY.” Catalfamo is immature practically beyond imagination which you will see when you read his exact words-including death threats and threats of anal homosexual rape-later in this article.
Do you really want a guy who would stab a beloved pet of a former friend as a house guest sleeping on your couch? What about your children? Do you think for a second they would be safe anywhere near this type of monster? What about your wife, your girlfriend, your husband, your boyfriend, your brother, your sister, your friends whom you’ve spent ages cultivating positive relationships with? Would you allow this piece of shit into your life knowing what he is capable of-knowing that he could kill the ones you love and YOURSELF within seconds and feel he was entitled to do so and have no remorse ever? Or would you rather see a sack of shit like this locked up with people that share his personality-drug dealing and drug addicted losers (of which he is one-crystal meth), violent sociopaths, child molesters and child murderers-wouldn’t you feel safer knowing that (a) you refuse to have anything to do with this person and (b) he was locked safely away where he could only hurt people like him? Do you really even have to think about it?
All your neighbors in Santa Barbara, your pals at the bar, your family, your co-workers, your classmates-and everyone else-deserves to be aware a violent sexual predator and potential murderer is on the loose in your midst and you should stay far away from him at all times-in fact, if you know of anything illegal he’s done you should report it immediately to the police who will act on the information.
You can see just how deranged Robert Catalfamo is in his own words here:
www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com
A VERY SMALL SAMPLING OF ROBERT CATALFAMO’S OWN WORDS-A VERY DANGEROUS AND EXTREMELY DEPRAVED INDIVIDUAL
THREATS LEADING UP TO STABBING LINUS
June 27 2008 7:22 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
DON’T YOU DARE STEP FOOT IN MY AREA
June 27 2008 8:52 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
GO EAT YOUR CUM 4 DINNER IT’S WHAT U DO ANYWAY AND CHEAPER THAN TAKING THE CUNT 2 EAT LET HER STARVE SPOLIED BRAT NEEDS 2 SUFFER A LITTLE
June 28 2008 12:48 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
TOLD YOU ASSHOLE NOT 2 COME 2 MY AREA AND AS USUAL U DIDN’T LISTEN SO NOW U HAVE TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES
June 28 2008 12:55 am
TAMAR
No was running around searching for Linus he said he had him n was going to cut him up and shove him down ur throat
IDENTIFYING ROBERT CATALFAMO FOR APRIL THIRD ASSAULT AND BATTERY, ROBBERY, CHOKING, ATTEMPTED MURDER
July 1 2008 10:30 pm
RODNEY
The person who threatens to break my fingers and cut me up on the tape (Detective) Cassidy has is Robert
FELONY DEATH THREATS
June 14 2008 2:43 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
Your dead peterfuckerson and you know why so don’t act dumb like you are pretending like you don’t know what hit you
July 1 11:30 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU WILL REGRET YOUR LAST WORDS SOON U WON’T B ABLE TO RUIN PEOPLES LIVES ON THE INTERNET WHILE SPENDING UR LIFE AT KINKYS UR FINGERS WILL B CUT OFF FIRST
July 2 2008 8:28 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
ULL SOON MEET UR MAKER
July 7 2008 2:00 am
SHE’S DEAD ASSWIPE
July 8 2008 3:30 pm
YOU AND TAMAR ARE DEFINITELY ABOUT 2 BE EXTERMINATED. FUCK YOUR CODE WORDS I CAN FIND BOTH OF U AND ELIMINATE U WITHIN THE HOUR IF I WANTED 2
July 8 2008 3:45 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
MY DAD WILL DO IT
July 9 2008 11:46 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOUR DEAD
July 9 2008 2:48 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Like I give a shit fact of the matter is you committed yet another felony when you stabbed Linus and it’s the end for you period
July 9 2008 3:13 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU
July 11 2008 2:09 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
DON’T WORRY YOULL BE GONE FOREVER 2 COCKSUCKER
July 13 2008 9:34 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
GOT THE BLENDER SET 2 PUREE BOTH OF YOU. U HAVE NO RIGHT CALLING CASA ESPERANZA YOUR GONNA PAY 4 A HOTEL ROOM 4 ME COCK SUCKER
ROBERT CATALFAMO
GUN MY ASS THEY DON’T LET INSANE ANAL LUBE CAT MURDERERS 2 CARRY GUNS IN THEIR BRIGGS N RILEY BUT I GOT A 1920S BILLY CLUB USED 2 KILL NIGGERS WE CAN GO PLAY W
RODNEY PETERSON
You’re the cat murderer and evil cocksucker who needs an axe to your skull and a baseball bat to your knee and elbow the next time you stalk tamar
July 14 2008 9:05 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I HAVE AN ALLEY 4 U WITH YOUR GUN AND MY BILLY CLUB LETS MEET
July 14 2008 1:15 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU DON’T SCARE ME ASSWIPE AND YOUR NOT SAFE AND I DON’T JUST MEAN DOG SHIT IN YOUR CRACKS
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU THINK U KNOW EVERYTHING YOU DON’T AND YOUR DAYS AND HOURS NUMBERED
July 14 2008 1:36 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Going to get an axe if you come anywhere near me I will chop you in the neck the same way you did Linus but you wont be breathing afterwards you disgusting butt ugly piece of shit
July 14 2008 6:00 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
They’re also causing me to lose my temper with you in addition to being a clear and dangerous threat to both of our lives
July 14 2008 6:43 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
ASSHOLE YOUR FINISHED
ROBERT CATALFAMO
TAMAR HATES YOUR GUTS AND YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED
July 14 2008 7:03 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Tamar it is YOUR goddamn fault you allowed this piece of shit into your life to stab Linus and choke me it is time for you to get off the fucking fence
July 14 2008 7:26 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Tamar you may not give a shit about your life which makes it harder to care but I care about my life and I’m filing felony charges
July 14 2008 8:12 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
I am really sorry for being so angry at you tamar but I can no longer just sit and let this piece of shit continually commit felonies and hurt both of us
July 14 2008 9:09 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I TOLD U THE CUNT HATES YOU BET U HOPE SHE KILLS HERSELF OTHERWISE WE CAN GET THAT AXE AND DO IT TOGETHER OK
RODNEY PETERSON
What are you going to do with that axe?
ROBERT CATALFAMO
HELP YOU U FUCKER YOU ARE SO LAME GUESS LIVING AT KINKOS IS MAKING YOU LOSE YOUR MEMORY OR YOUR AGE SHOULD START ASKING 4 A SENIOR DISCOUNT HA HA HA
July 14 2008 9:32 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU THINK YOUR ENTITLED 2 EVERYTHING THE ONLY THING THE PRESS CARE ABOUT IS YOUR DEATH AND SO WILL THE LAPD
July 14 2008 10:01 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
U THINK UR THE SHIT BUT YOUR NOT JUST TURD THAT NEEDS 2 BE EXTERMINATED
MENACING BY STALKING
July 2 2008 1:28 am
TAMAR
Robert by the way is so convinced that I’m hanging out with Michael it’s to the point of extreme jealousy
July 4 2008 7:00 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I’LL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE SO WISHFUL THINKING. U THINK YOU GOT OFF FREE BUT U DIDN’T
July 11 2008 5:37 am
TAMAR
Hope u can sleep. I cant cuz asshole keeps calling. Need 2 have phone on in case of emergency n cuz I worry that ur safe. Gonna lie down even if cant sleep
MENACING BY STALKING AND INTERNET CRIMES
July 6 2008 2:54 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOUR IPHONE WON’T BE SAFE FOREVER YOU WILL GET A SIGNATURE 2 AND YOU WON’T BE ABLE 2 CALL OUT AND YOUR TEXTS WILL DELETE 2. CAN’T WAIT TILL U BITE THE DUST
THREATS WITH INTENT TO COMMIT GREAT BODILY HARM
July 2 2008 6:43 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
U MAY NOT BE GOING 2 LOCK UP N IF NOT U WILL BE SITTING AT KINKYS WITH NO FINGERS WATCHING EVERYONE ELSE TYPE PLUS THE CUNTS PERMANENTLY HOMELESS
ADMITTING TO STABBING LINUS
July 6 2008 7:15 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
BET U WISH U WERE AS SMART AND THOUGHT OF STABBING THE PUSSY
July 13 2008 2:11 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
CAT MURDERER BET U USED ANAL LUBE 2 GREASE UP KNIFE U USED 2 STAB TAMARS PUSSY
PSYCHOTIC IDEATION AND MENACING BY STALKING
July 6 2008 5:23 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I WAS MUCH BETTER THAN SHE DESERVED SHE CHOSE 2 THROW ME AWAY
July 6 2008 7:01 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
BITCH HATES UR FUCKEN GUTS THAT’S WHO SHE’LL GO 2 THE COPS 4 BUT SHE’LL HOPEFULLY GET PUT AWAY 4 EVER YOU 2
July 7 2008 2:15 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I smell a dirty rat at kinkys u will soon really suffer beyond everyones means
July 8 2008 5:30 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
HA HA HA ABOUT TIME THE BITCH FEELS SOME PAIN LIKES 2 DISH IT OUT BUT CANT TAKE IT DIE BITCH DIE
July 8 2008 5:55 pm
TAMAR
Youre so evil I know its u writing. Rodney wouldn’t text me such nasty words and you r blocking me from calling faggot
TAMAR
What a stupid ass I know very well that was not a cop calling me. U don’t disguise your voice well. Your dad is probably such an embarassment to lapd
July 8 2008 8:07 pm
TAMAR
Got my phone 4 few minutes cuz missed last phone break while sleeping. Don’t know if you’ll get this or asshole will. But if u do want u 2 know I appreciate what
TAMAR
U are doing 2 help me. Hopefully we can put an end to this nightmare 4 good. Been feeling so sick not sure why
ROBERT CATALFAMO
WHAT A PATHETIC COUPLE. GLAD SHE’S SUFFERING ITS ABOUT TIME AND YOUR NEXT.
ROBERT CATALFAMO
KNEW I COULD CONFUSE YOU 2 AND MAKE YOU HATE EACH OTHER IM THE MASTER
July 8 2008 8:30 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
DON’T WANT THAT BITCH ANYWAY SHE BETRAYED ME IN 2 MANY WAYS BUT THE LAST WAS GIVING OUT MY NUMBER AND TOLD INTIMATE DETAILS ABOUT ME BONDING WITH HER CAT
July 10 2008 6:37 am
TAMAR
Its me im leaving in a little while cuz asshole tracked me down. Guess giving each other clues isn’t safe either. Listened 2 voice mail just now n hes
TAMAR
Not gonna stop at anything. 22 threatening n vulgar msgs cant save them cuz my voice mail has very small capacity. Its getting worse n worse his harassment
TAMAR
Bunch of lame crap but basically is high even tho text from other day said hes sober. Has 2 b high leaving 22 deranged msgs throughout the nite. So gotta leave 2
TAMAR
Somewhere safe. Wish the clue thing worked but apparently were talking about a very sick piece of shot who will stop at nothing
July 10 2008 8:35 am
TAMAR
Becuz im not getting released 2 b free im going 2 another place. Hes after me and im not safe that’s y I hav 2 b careful about clues. Hes not after u like he is me
July 10 2008 8:45 am
TAMAR
Unless he gets the death penalty or life in prison I will always have 2 live in fear. Guess my texts are being intercepted as usual. Fuck you robert rot in hell
July 10 2008 11:24 am
TAMAR
Just got 2 my moms n trying 2 send u msg from comp but my whole address book is gone so im going to put in ur # again
July 10 2008 9:00 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Tamar stop being afraid and prosecute this piece of shit police are going to be behind you time to step up and show some balls
July 13 2008 2:31 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
LOTSA GIRLS WANT ME I WAS JUST LAME AND AM SO GRATEFUL THE CUNT DIDN’T WANT ME SHE SURE HAD A CHANCE AND WONT FIND ANYONES DRADEL AS GOOD AS MINE NOT EVEN U
July 14 2008 9:48 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
U AND THE BITCH AND THE FAGGOT MCGEE R PROBABLY HAVING MASTURBATION PARTIES
HOMOSEXUAL ANAL RAPE OBSESSION AND ANAL LUBE OBSESSION
April 21 2008 9:44 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
Did some bird turd fall in ur anal lube while u slept by the tree. Should’ve closed the cap 2 the astro glide didn’t ur mama teach u about ur backdoor
April 30 2008 5:25 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
You’re going 2 pay with your ass 4 what you’ve done and won’t have time 2 lube it up you’ll have 2 take it raw and feel it rip
June 26 2008 2:36 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
Theres no section 8 in the loony bin the most ull get is ward 8 or be sectioned off by 8 anal lube drippers who r eagerly waiting ur arrival cocksucker
June 26 2008 3:00 am
TAMAR
Ok this is bs go back 2 ur porn or crossdressing with clothes u find in the dumpster. Ur childish games r beyond sick
June 27 2008 8:18 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU WILL REGRET THAT DECISION I GUARANTEE COCKSUCKER. BET UR PLANNING ON HITTING SEX SHOP 2 LOAD UP ON ANAL LUBE. TOO BAD U CAN’T BRING IT 2 LOCK UP
June 29 2008 8:43 pm
TAMAR
Stop ringing my door pervert child molester and u r pretty lame 2 continue w ur obscene n vulgar texts. Pretty sick asking if I’m gonna rub lube on Linus.
July 8 2008 5:09 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU LOVE TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR ANUS
July 8 2008 9:16 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
UR SO FINISHED. AT LEAST I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSEKF IN JAIL YOULL GET SO PUNISHED 4 CRYING 2 THE WARDEN OVER LAME THINGS. IVE ALERTED MY FRIENDS ABOUT YOU HA HA HA
OTHER CRIMES
July 8 2008 8:47 pm
TAMAR
hope this important text gets 2 u. forgot to tell u that place in sb gives him job its called labor ready. Even driving jobs they need 2 know he drives under
TAMAR
The influence. When they gave him job at Albertsons he stole a lot of stuff. Cant prove it 4 sure cuz he will deny telling me but they can verify dui cuz his
TAMAR
Last job at action roofing he was fired 4 that n using the company gas card. Im sure he wasn’t at the child support hearing he got served papers in april
TAMAR
Those papers were 2 determine he was the father once again. Lost count of how many kids deadbeat dad has and how many are trying 2 prove he is
TAMAR
All thru ventura county
TAMAR
No action roofing paid dmv cuz they needed him 2 drive. Assume if they knew what his history was theyd not have paid over $400 2 get his license reinstated
July 8 2008 9:01 pm
TAMAR
Also tried 2 kill u u said Cassidy has messages with his voice saying that. So not just threat 2 animals
Rodney Peterson
310-498-6394
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
laketahoe32@gmail.com
Ultimately, Cutting Confessions is a very unusual and touching love story full of unusual high drama and cutting edge comedy. While it is an unusual story, it is often the unusual stories that become all time beloved classics-and while campaigning for the film in Las Vegas, it occurred to me that just maybe a Las Vegas showroom might be a terrific place for people to enjoy this unusual and fate driven love story-fate in that many of the things that occur in Cutting Confessions are highly unusual and in some cases sort of like winning the lottery and indeed, athough the two central characters first meet in Pasadena the film winds its way to a stunning conclusion in Las Vegas-and since a very unusual round of roulette is involved towards the end, it could be a natural for a long running and highly attended Las Vegas show with talented performers of all types giving it their all and deeply touching the audience.
The Presidential election is over and Barack Obama is President-Elect of the United States. No matter what your politics, the fact of the matter is this is an amazing man who 21 months before the election lost to John McCain in theoretical matchups 510 electoral votes to 28 electoral votes. But determination and a campaign that was second to none showed the character of the man. In many ways, I'm on a similar journey-I know I have a terrific message with this story but just like Barack Obama I face long odds. But that's one of the terrific real life messages of this story-that you can accomplish the nearly impossible with hard work and determination. In this way, just as Barack Obama, I hope Tamar and myself can become a shining example for others.
The real stuff of this story is found at the posts towards the bottom of this page and the Cutting Confessions Film Treatment and Script blog at my MySpace page:
www.myspace.com/370392338
Now the idiocy of Robert Catalfamo, a stalker of extreme proportions, can largely be ignored and indeed, it is possible a number of his actions have taken place because of brain damage from continual drug abuse-how else could you explain a moron that thinks its okay to text message a death and stabbing threat against an innocent 17 year old girl, Bristol Palin and her unborn child, whom he has never met. He continues to stalk and threaten both Tamar and myself, but his actions can now be largely ignored as the nonsensical ravings of a brain damaged idiot. Most of it has been deleted from this blog although I still have many of those threats as they may be needed for prosecution or proof of his insane stalking. And note that although he may be brain damaged, he is still as dangeorus to all members of society as he ever was. There might be valid lawsuits here against various branches of law enforcement if they continue to let him roam free as he is a danger to everybody.
Unfortunately, Robert Catalfamo's threats have recently grown to include President-Elect Barack Obama and his family, specificially his daughters and wife Michelle who he is now sending text messages regarding poisoning them and their classmates, which is highly disturbing in and of itself, but he also is mentioning the fact they are black in addition to this. Here are some of his recent threats-Tamar Hirsch has also received these same types of threats, however the only ones I have immediate access to are the ones I received.
November 20, 2008 11:51 am
U R SOON 2 B DEAD SACK OF SHIT
November 20, 2008 12:03 pm
(me) Really how?
ULL HAV 2 WAIT AND SEE COCKSUCKER U STARTD IT NOW ITS GOING 2 FINISH CANT THRETEN BOMB OBAMA SWEARIN IN WONT GET AWAY WITH IT ASSWIPE
November 20, 2008 12:15 pm
U CAUSE BITCH 2 MANY PROBLEM NO JOB RUIN HER LIFE WITH BLOG MCGEE NO JOB NO APT TONY DEAD UR FAMILY SHAME OF U AND ME U CAUSE ACIDENT NOW ULL PAY COCKSUCKER
November 20, 2008 11:27 am
ALREDY U ASKIN 2 CALL SECRET SERVICE U DONT STOP THRET OBAMA
November 20, 2008 6:57 am
SCUMBAG HAS NO LIFE AND FRIENDS EVERYBODY HATES U SECRET SERVICE READY 2 NAIL U 4 BOMB THRET 2 OBAMA SWEARIN IN
DIABLO CODY NOBODY LIKE U AND SHE HATES U 2 UR ALL OVER WEBSITE UR STAKER 2 HER AND AGENT BOMB THRET 2 OBAMA ONLY CUZ UR JEALOUS NOONE WILL SUFFER CUZ OF U
UR DEAD JUST LIKE U WISH OBAMA WAS XCEPT THIS 4 REAL
November 20, 2008 1:23 am
UR LIAR AND SO JEALOUS OF OBAMA U CANT DENY IT DONT THINK UR GOING 2 GET AWAY WITH BOMB ON BIG DAY COCKSUCKER
November 19, 2008 12:21 pm
ASSWIPE SECRET SERVICE WATCHING UR UGLY MOM 2 4 THRETNING BOMB WHEN OBAMA TURNS PRESIDENT UR FAMILYS BIG SCUMBAGS
MAKING BOMB THRET IS VERY SERIOUS AND BIGGER THRET ON BIGGEST DAY IN HISTORY SCUMBAG
SECRET SERVICE WILL SQUASH U LIKE PANCAKE WEN U GET 2 DC OBAMA THRET SERIOUS ASSWIPE
November 19, 2008 4:39 am
TOLD U BITCH CANT TALK 2 U SHES IN LOCKUP U SHOULD BE 2 SINCE UR ALL OVER INTERNET BEIN DIABLO CODY STOKER MORE CHARGES R PRESSED UR GOIN DOWN REAL FAST LOSER
Note: The threats take a short break here for a couple of paragraphs as I address the issue mentioned in that last text message. There are plenty more of Robert Catalfamo's threats against the Obamas-and even Bristol Palin-to follow.
Note: I couldn't care less about Diablo Cody's personal life, where she lives or any other personal detail about her and am not stalking her and don't want to. I simply have a lot of things in common with her-which is a reality and is nobody's fault-it just is. I realized that while watching Juno and after that I researched her on the internet for a few hours-then I started to feel bad about it-in that I thought I knew more than I needed to-so I stopped. In fact I haven't even read her book about stripping-partly because it would feel creepy. Also, I've worked in strip clubs as a Disc Jockey so I doubt she would have anything to say I don't already know. Doing the research felt creepy after a short while and that's not my intention. My intention is to point out those things as a selling point for my writing. In fact, I went to a seminar hosted by a couple of friends of hers so I could talk to them about MY writing and also mention the commonalities as a way in. The fact is writing is a difficult circle to break into and I need to use every advantage I can and meet as many people as possible.
November 15, 2008 12:59 pm (EXTORTION)
U will ad money 2 my bank america account or else (this was probably typed in lower case (as some of his messages are) to make it look less likely that he wrote it-he also uses this technique if he wants to pose as Tamar usually with the intention of hoping we become angry with each other-you can see that very issue addressed in some of the texts here)
November 12, 2008 8:16 pm
IF U KILL OBAMA DAUTER AND WIFE U WONT GET TRIAL U GO RITE 2 HELL
HA HA HA MY DAD IS PROTECTING ME AND UR SCUMBAG 2 COPS MY DAD TOLD ME UR DONE WITH BY COPS NO PROTECTING
UR DELUSIONS R NOT EXCUSE 2 KILL NIGGER PRESIDENT DAUTER ASSWIPE
November 12, 2008 8:05 pm
THEY HAVE EXTRA PROTECTING OBAMA DAUTER SCHOOL U WONT GET AWAY BOMBING SCHOOL CUZ SHES NIGGER COCKSUCKER
November 11, 2008 9:06 am
MY DADS NOT GOING 2 PRISON BUT U ARE ASSWIPE OBAMA PUT DAUTER IN HIDING 2 PROTECT FROM UR ASS POISON HER
November 9, 2008 4:58 pm
SHUT HELL UP UR NOT GOING 2 GET HER NUMBER (referring to Tamar's mother Ruth) AND UPGRADED 2 HIGH GRADE ALERT 4 POISON OBAMA DAUTER N WIFE UR TARGETED AS NIGGER HATER AND KILLER
November 9, 2008 10:09 am
UR ASKING 4 FULL EXTENT OF LAW IF TEXT OR CALL BITCH AGAIN NOT PLAYING GAMES NIGGER HATER
EAT UR CUM AND DIE TOLD SECRET SERVICE UR FANTASY 2 RAPE OBAMA WIFE AFTER POISON DAUTER
November 9, 2008 8:18 am
ASSWIPE SECRET SERVICE CALLED SAID HOMELESS LOSERS WHO THRETEN OBAMA R REALLY WANTING 2 GET FUCKED IN ASS JUST LIKE BLACK MONKEYS
November 9, 2008 5:22 am
YOUR NOT DETECTIVE AND U R NOT IN CHARGE OF LAWS JUST BCUZ U R STILL FREE DONT MEAN U CAN THRETEN OBAMA DAUTER LOTS OF PROOF U DO HATE CRIME EVEN DID IT
November 8, 2008 10:05 pm
TEXT FROM TAMAR HIRSCH
Its u finally dickhead said i mailed poison 2 obamas daughters school cuz shes black
November 8, 2008 5:33 pm
U WILL BE PUT 2 DEATH 4 OBAMA THRETS LOTS OF PROOF HOW RACIST U R SO WONT GET AWAY WITH IT PSYCHOTIC LOSER
November 8, 2008 8:29 am
HA HA HA KNEW IT WOULD WORK NOW U PSYCHOTIC LOSERS HATE EACH OTHER 2 BAD CANT GO 2 SAME LOCKUP WEN U GET TAKIN IN 4 THRETEN OBAMA DAUTERS
JUST BCUZ PALIN LOST THANKS 2 U UR SORE LOSER SO THRETEN OBAMA AND DAUTER 4 BEING BLACK CANT COVER IT UP BY POSTING BLOGS UR JUST LIKE HIM WONT WORK SCUMBAG
November 7, 2008 8:20 am
NO CHOICE U SHOULDVE THOT ABOUT WAT HAPPENS WEN U MURDER LANDLORD PRESIDENT PALIN AND INNOCENT PEOPLE SCUMBAG
November 7, 2008 7:54 am
2 POISON OBAMA B4 GETS WHITE HOUSE CUZ HES BLACK U WONT BE TOLERATED PSYCHOTIC HOMELESS SCUMBAG
November 1, 2008 1:26 pm
THERE INTERESTED IN U PALIN BUT GUESS UR NOW THRETNING OBAMA AND WILL REPORT U AGAIN 2 SECRET SERVICE
October 28, 2008 11:30 am
TRY BLAMING ME BUT SECRET SERVICE ALREDY KNOW U THRETEND EAT PLAINS CUM B4 MURDERING HER UR FUCKEN STUPID ASSWIPE SECRET SERVICE IS NOT PLAYING WITH UR ASS
Needless to say, this is all the doing of Robert Catalfamo and those are just some of his deranged messages. I admire Barack Obama and his family and would never make the types of threats and statements he is referring to above and in many other of his deranged messages.
The information on Las Encinas Hospital, while tragic, is still interesting and Las Encinas is where part of this story takes place. Speaking of Las Encinas, for many reasons Tamar Hirsch has a valid lawsuit against Las Encinas and we welcome any attorneys who may be interested in the case to discuss it with us. Please also note I am currently searching fervently for an apartment in Los Angeles. My current ceiling is $1155 per month. If you are a property owner in Los Angeles (or an attorney or an industry professional, including industry professionals in Las Vegas that can assist in moving this project forward and finding it a home) please contact me through one of the following methods of contact:
IPhone: 310-498-6394
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
Through MySpace by visiting:
www.myspace.com/370392338
laketahoe32@gmail.com
Thank You
Now two more members of the Sicilian Catalfamo family may be criminals, including a longtime Los Angeles Police Department Homicide Detective. Robert Catlfamo's younger brother, Scott Catalfamo, was convicted of manufacturing three gallons of the date rape drug GHB in an undercover operation of the Santa Monica Police. The matter of Samuel Catalfamo has been referred to the Citizens Police Commission and the Department of Internal Affairs. Based on the fact at least two of his sons are convicted felons, I think an internal investigation into the career of Samuel Catalfamo is highly warranted. The full report of this is at the MySpace blogs and I am also planning on posting there soon the internal affairs complaint.
If sending a text messaged death and stabbing threat against Bristol Palin and her unborn child weren't enough mayhem for this deluded and dangerous individual to cause, just 48 hours later Robert Catalfamo was driving a 1993 Ford Ranger pickup near Santa Barbara when he caused a three vehicle alcohol related head on collision. The full report of this too is at the MySpace blogs.
Originally this blog started out as a really terrific and highly unique movie. It still is, but months of abuse in the form of death threats, threats of great bodily harm, actual assaults, stabbing of animals, theft of property and bank accounts, illegal cell phone cloning and much more have derailed the project. Tamar Hirsch is a beautiful artistically talented intelligent book lover, seller of rare books and brilliant college student. She has the gift of working with autistic children. Her character in this film will be very dynamic. To read about the movie and skip past the horrible and deadly unpleasant stalking skip to the posts that appear towards the bottom of this website page which due to all the horrible criminal activity and violent text messaging recorded here. You will find portions of a script, a film trailer, my experience when meeting Simpsons producer James L. Brooks on the WGA picket line, my letter to Academy Award Winning Screenwriter Diablo Cody and more, most of it genuinely entertaining and a far cry from the violent criminal activity we have been subjected to since early February of which a portion has been recorded here.
Update August 24, 2008-Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, California where much of this story, film and book take place is now under official investigation by the State of California after three deaths and the rape of a 14 year old girl all occured within a period of five months at the facility. Two of those deaths were overdoses within a two day period at Las Encinas Substance Abuse Facility, Nash House, where pop psychologist Dr. Drew Pinsky is one of the co-directors. Dr. Drew is something of a legend at Las Encinas and is looked up to far more than he should be. Conversely, until these incidents occurred and Dr. Drew attempted to distance himself from his department, Las Encinas practically worshipped the ground he walked on and he was the only physican whose picture appeared on the website's home page. Typically Dr. Drew shows up to speak at twelve step meetings at one of the more than century old buildings that dot the 27 acre campus of Las Encinas. Then he leaves immediately afterwards. It is not at all atypical for Dr. Drew's patients to complain of feeling ignored and neglected. Basically a first class asshole Dr. Drew uses vulnernable substance abuse patients as the cornerstone of the very tacky VH1 "reality" program Celebrity Rehab, which most people would have to admit is hardly a good idea for the patients. Not helping the matter at least in the area of self esteem I would imagine is that practically none of the patients are ever actual celebrities. Thinking they may be when they actually aren't can't be helpful for an individual suffering from addiction. If that weren't bad enough unless VH1 rethinks its position Dr. Drew will be offering a spinoff "reality" program Sober Living. In reality, just as Dr. Drew's actual advice and therapy Celebrity Rehab is often a complete joke. Despite being the co-director at the facility where the two overdoses took place Dr. Drew denies any responsibility. That is about to change whether he likes it or not as you will read later.
This is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the incompetency at Aurora Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena, the place rumored to be where you can check out but never leave as the inspiration for the Eagles signature hit and album Hotel California. The hospital itself is more than 100 years old and sits amongst 27 beautifully landscaped and forested acres with both a swimming pool and a tennis court.
A woman with a gregarious personality that virtually everyone at the facility liked a great deal, nursing supervisor Robin Motola was fired or asked to resign after being arrested at Lake Havasu after a police check which found she was traveling and partying with drugs-and Las Encinas patients (apparently already released out of the hospital) in a scene which would make Jack Nicholson's One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest lead antagonist McMurphy proud. As a result of the arrest, Robin Motola is no longer allowed to work in psychiatric facilities. She was also reportedly having an affair with the CEO that ran Las Encinas before current CEO Linda Parks who was with her at Lake Havasu which also got him in trouble. And she might have skated by scot free were it not for her deciding this would be a good time to throw caution to the winds and pretend she was in New Orleans to earn beads for Mardi Gras and the police had not been there at the exact moment she decided to go topless.
On the night I was admitted to the hospital and first met Tamar, Robin was running the locked Cherokee unit. It's a unit where acute psychiatric patients are sent for their own safety. But when Tamar was admitted some time before that, she managed to sneak razor blades into the facility, which she should not have been able to. She cut herself-not once, but twice with those razor blades even after being taken away in an ambulance the first time to an emergency room at Pasadena's Huntington Memorial Hospital. Weeks later, she cut herself again without ever having left the unit and keeping the extra razor blades from staff members even after the first incident.
The raging asshole and career criminal stalking us, Robert Catalfamo, who is currently dealing crystal meth and other hard core illegal drugs, was introduced to Tamar by Robin Motola. In very recent years, Las Encinas Aurora Hospital has employed at least four incompetent raging assholes in top positions.
Las Encinas has also spent untold millions of dollars in renovations and luxurious surroundings creating the new and very expensive private Two South facility out of an older second floor wing. All the while CEO Linda Parks was cutting corners in other areas to maximize profits-and apparently too busy to avoid hiring staffers who wouldn't skip room checks or sleep through the rape of a 14 year old girl a few feet away or even to train them and other staff properly. For those of you wondering about how such a thing could happen-the rape of a 14 year old girl in what is a top notch facility, the answer is I don't know. That will be one of the things that will be of keen interest to state investigators. I can tell you the suspect, 16 year old Jonathan Aguilar, has been charged with the rape, forced oral copulation and robbery committed during a rape. This is terrific news and the boy will be charged as an adult and is being held on $1.1 million bail. He had been at a county facility prior to being admitted to Las Encinas so that will of course be one of the things investigators will be examining-it appears to be more negligence on the surface-the boy must have had an extremely violent record and normally not fit for admission under Las Encinas guidelines-and it's all the more bizarre when you realize there is no way, short of escaping the locked unit, that he could get away with this without being caught in a Las Encinas juvenile locked unit. In yet another unbelievable and tragic circumstance of this rape, not only was the boy admitted but so was his parole officer-who too slept right through his charges rape. In all, at least three employees had to be there because of Las Encinas policy which is to always have a charge nurse in each unit on each shift in addition to at least one psychiatric assistant at all times. The parole officer would have been the third person who could have stopped this rape, but did not. As parole officers typically sit right outside the parolees room with the door wide open, obviously the rapist walked right on by the sleeping parole officer to the victims room. These are also tiny units in the back building of Las Encinas with no more than six to twelve patients per unit. I just hope the poor 14 year old girl can someday feel safe and secure in her life after this type of brutal attack.
And it remains to be examined why did not Linda Parks review the Substance Abuse Unit and Nash House to find an actual caring doctor not out to exploit patients on television and who cared more about his patients than his media career-apparently that wasn't important enough of a priority. Las Encinas decided on the profitable person, not the competent one. In many ways and in many venues, Dr. Drew often comes across as a total useless assclown douchebag. Just what the substance abuse unit needed. Although Dr. Drew is a real doctor and a qualified internist he spreads himself too thin probably in a quest for fame and money and proved to be negligent when it comes to co-directing the Las Encinas Substance Abuse Treatment Program. Publicly, he attempted to distance himself from the results of the unit's negligence. It should also be noted one of the suicide victims 23 year old Alex Clyburn was not just an ordinary substance abuse patient-but the son of Arline Clyburn, a former clinical nurse coordinator at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Clinic. Alex wanted to go the Las Encinas facility largely because of Dr. Drew-"But Mom he's so sucsessful". Scant hours later he was dead. Arline Clyburn has enlisted the services of attorney Sean Burke in her upcoming lawsuit against Las Encinas and Dr. Drew. People should note that although Dr. Drew is a real doctor he does NOT and never did have a license to practice psychotherapy or earned a degree in that field of medicine. Recently he has been criticized for analyzing celebrities he has never met, the most well known instance being Scientologist Tom Cruise. Tamar knows of other instances of problems with Dr. Drew partly because her father owns both a private residential psychiatric clinic and two West Hollywood group homes. One of those things, according to Tamar, is a hush hush case involving a Lovelines caller who committed suicide settled out of court. Some Las Encinas partnered psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to work with the hospitals substance abuse unit at least in part because of Dr. Drew's involvement with the facility.
CEO Linda Parks came from the less than stellar BHC Alhambra Hospital a few miles away-and not a top notch facility, as Las Encinas purports itself to be. Tamar suffered abuse, usually in the form of being strapped to a table in a bare room for hours everytime she was unfortunate enough to have to go to BHC Alhambra.
When I met her in 2006, Tamar was at Las Encinas for an extended period of time-until both her Blue Cross Insurance ran out and/or her financially well off father stopped paying for her treatment. For a time she had no insurance and now has MediCare and MediCal. Las Encinas has refused to admit her ever since-even if Las Encinas partnered psychiatrists and psychologists recommended it. It's further evidence of putting the emphasis at Las Encinas under Linda Parks on profits, not patients-or patient care.
IMPORTANT UPDATE
August 9, 2008-Robert Catalfamo is proud of his new job-so proud he notifies Tamar and myself every half hour of his activities. The new job is dealing addictive drugs-crystal meth and others-Catalfamo is a long time crystal meth addict. According to Catalfamo, his supplier deals out of Bakersfield and Catalfamo claims he sells drugs to the Santa Barbara area and Ventura County area and has also bragged about selling drugs in San Francisco. Police reports have been submitted to Southern California, Santa Barbara and Ventura County law enforcement personnel as well as specific agencies charged with the task of curtailing illegal drug activity. Robert Catalfamo's last known address is 1126 East Gutierrez Street in Santa Barbara but he also recently lived at the Casa Esperanza Homeless Shelter there. Robert Catalfamo's birth date is August 8, 1970 and he is driving a vehicle supplied by the drug distribution ring. The most recent information we have is that it is or was a green Toyota-he claimed to switch vehicles after he became aware police had been notified about the green Toyota. Robert Catalfamo has short brown or black hair, is roughly 160 lbs and of Italian descent. He continues to break a valid restraining order issued by a Santa Barbara judge-this alone is enough to imprison him. But as you've read, there is virtually a laundry list of felonies Robert Catalfamo can be charged with.
Catalfamo is a braggart-a huge detriment for a drug dealer. He is an idiot and a pawn but nonetheless his quick incarceration is clearly best for Santa Barbara and all of Southern and Northern California. In the course of his illegal drug dealing and reckless driving while under the influence he could hurt or kill other residents of Southern California during his depraved and insane actions and state of mind. Call the Santa Barbara Police at 805-897-2300 if you have information about Robert Catalfamo or the drug ring he is working with.
Robert Catalfamo continues to break a restraining order issued by a Santa Barbara judge and accuse both Rodney Peterson and Tamar Hirsch of various aspects of fraud and abuse while knowing nothing about the physical and mental situations of each or of their medical and psychological background.
At the same time, Robert Catalfamo is attempting to qualify for state workers compensation through a workers compensation attorney, claiming disability while at the same time bragging about working under the table for $25 an hour plus a vehicle of some sort. Both Labor Ready and Action Roofing of Santa Barbara, two companies which have, to their admitted regret, employed Robert Catalfamo are fighting the procedure (in the case of Action Roofing no action can be taken due to statute limitations and Labor Ready has referred the matter to corporate attorneys.) At the same time Robert Catalfamo continues to torment Tamar Hirsch, breaking federal law by intercepting her texts and e-mails while at the same time sending both Hirsch and Peterson felony death threats, felony threats to commit great bodily harm, and felony sexually suggestive threats mostly to do with anal rape. In Ventura County alone, Robert Catalfamo has 13 offenses on record, the majority drug offenses punishable by imprisonment, which he has experienced quite a lot and where he likely developed his disgusting taste for violent homosexual anal sexual activity. Of the 13 offenses, he has been convicted of ten. Two others remain open and one was dismissed. This is the only county for which we have been able to easily access arrest records so obviously there are more arrests we don't know about yet. Among his other offenses, according to Catalfamo himself, are felony gun running in Oregon and others I didn't even bother to listen to in a message he left on my IPhone.
Catalfamo believes he is above the law and relies on his father, a retired policeman to get him out of trouble. Obviously his track record indicates that doesn't work so well. He also claims to have the Santa Barbara police on his side, a claim which is at best ludicrious.
A hearing is scheduled August 5th in Santa Barbara to extend the protection order. (It has been extended to August 5th, 2011)
Robert Catalfamo just can not get it through his thick head Tamar Hirsch (who he has recently called a cunt and other wonderful endearing names) wants nothing to do with him and has no issue with sabotaging his future as long as he continues to illegally harass her and Peterson.
More detrimental information about Robert Catalfamo: Catalfamo has an unknown number of illegitimate children in California rumored to be at least four and as many as eight at this time which are unsupported and he is constantly attempting to avoid paying child support. Two of the mothers of the illegitimate children are Cheyenne Miller and Katie Lader. If you'd like to call Robert Catalfamo and tell him what a sack of shit he is or if you'd like to send him threats as he has done to us or mess up his phone and/or computer so they don't work or help us gather electronic evidence and/or perform computer forensics on his phone or computer here are at least three known cell numbers from which he has sent us threats: 805-617-8438, 805-617-9627 and 805-617-9635. A brand new number from which he has sent threats in the past few days is 818-916-3947.
More information follows from earlier:
Just in case you weren’t already aware of the obvious, Robert Catalfamo of Santa Barbara, California (often living in the Casa Esperanza homeless shelter there) also known as RC is a demented, depraved and delusional individual.
The latest incident, among many, that proves this is the fact that last week he stabbed a cat in the neck with a knife, gravely injuring the nearly five year old cat named Linus who would have had a birthday a few days later. The reason he did this is because the cat’s owner, a lovely Jewish girl, Tamar Hirsch, who stands four foot eleven inches and weighs just 95 pounds, dared to see her friend, Rodney Peterson, after trying for months to permanently eliminate Catalfamo from her life following death threats, threats of great bodily injury, threats of anal rape and a deep and disturbing homosexual oriented obsession with all things anal sex and anal lube Catalfamo can‘t ever stop thinking of, theft of identity, hijacking cell phones and computers, theft by defrauding her bank accounts and more, all of which he also attempted with Peterson, whom he attempted to murder on April third of this year in Pasadena.
We’ll get to the serious stuff such as the stabbing of Linus in a second but first of all you may enjoy this real laugher. Robert Catalfamo believes he looks something like Tom Cruise and is attractive to women. This is doubtful because of his horrid personality-a personality so horrid and actions so despicable his father, a retired policeman, takes the position of never allowing Robert anywhere near his family. If you take a look at his MySpace photo, you will see his face barely figures in the photo at all. This is a common ploy of ugly people-to say they’re good looking then do anything they can to hide the evidence by making their picture difficult to see. In Catalfamo’s case, he’s such a dipshit that the photo is so poorly cropped half of it is nothing but a bare wall and a ceiling.
Stabbing a cat is an act not far removed from stabbing and murdering a human being, and in fact Robert Catalfamo believes he is entitled to murder, rape or otherwise hurt anyone he wants. In the case of Linus, the cat, he took the time to bond with him months previous to stabbing him. If Italian people are known for their loyalty, there is abso-fucking-lutely NOTHING loyal about stabbing a cat that previous to the incident trusted its assailant and belonged to a girl that at one time was a part of his life. That cat meant everything to Tamar and she really loved it. Robert Catalfamo destroyed that relationship Tamar had taken years to build when he viciously thoughtlessly and cowardly stabbed her cat.
Robert Catalfamo has difficulty holding a job or having a place to live. Nobody in his family wants him anywhere around them-he’s not only a vicious potential serial killer he’s also a loser of almost unimaginable proportions. Consider this quote from his fed up mother “I’m his Mother not his MOMMY.” Catalfamo is immature practically beyond imagination which you will see when you read his exact words-including death threats and threats of anal homosexual rape-later in this article.
Do you really want a guy who would stab a beloved pet of a former friend as a house guest sleeping on your couch? What about your children? Do you think for a second they would be safe anywhere near this type of monster? What about your wife, your girlfriend, your husband, your boyfriend, your brother, your sister, your friends whom you’ve spent ages cultivating positive relationships with? Would you allow this piece of shit into your life knowing what he is capable of-knowing that he could kill the ones you love and YOURSELF within seconds and feel he was entitled to do so and have no remorse ever? Or would you rather see a sack of shit like this locked up with people that share his personality-drug dealing and drug addicted losers (of which he is one-crystal meth), violent sociopaths, child molesters and child murderers-wouldn’t you feel safer knowing that (a) you refuse to have anything to do with this person and (b) he was locked safely away where he could only hurt people like him? Do you really even have to think about it?
All your neighbors in Santa Barbara, your pals at the bar, your family, your co-workers, your classmates-and everyone else-deserves to be aware a violent sexual predator and potential murderer is on the loose in your midst and you should stay far away from him at all times-in fact, if you know of anything illegal he’s done you should report it immediately to the police who will act on the information.
You can see just how deranged Robert Catalfamo is in his own words here:
www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com
A VERY SMALL SAMPLING OF ROBERT CATALFAMO’S OWN WORDS-A VERY DANGEROUS AND EXTREMELY DEPRAVED INDIVIDUAL
THREATS LEADING UP TO STABBING LINUS
June 27 2008 7:22 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
DON’T YOU DARE STEP FOOT IN MY AREA
June 27 2008 8:52 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
GO EAT YOUR CUM 4 DINNER IT’S WHAT U DO ANYWAY AND CHEAPER THAN TAKING THE CUNT 2 EAT LET HER STARVE SPOLIED BRAT NEEDS 2 SUFFER A LITTLE
June 28 2008 12:48 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
TOLD YOU ASSHOLE NOT 2 COME 2 MY AREA AND AS USUAL U DIDN’T LISTEN SO NOW U HAVE TO SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES
June 28 2008 12:55 am
TAMAR
No was running around searching for Linus he said he had him n was going to cut him up and shove him down ur throat
IDENTIFYING ROBERT CATALFAMO FOR APRIL THIRD ASSAULT AND BATTERY, ROBBERY, CHOKING, ATTEMPTED MURDER
July 1 2008 10:30 pm
RODNEY
The person who threatens to break my fingers and cut me up on the tape (Detective) Cassidy has is Robert
FELONY DEATH THREATS
June 14 2008 2:43 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
Your dead peterfuckerson and you know why so don’t act dumb like you are pretending like you don’t know what hit you
July 1 11:30 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU WILL REGRET YOUR LAST WORDS SOON U WON’T B ABLE TO RUIN PEOPLES LIVES ON THE INTERNET WHILE SPENDING UR LIFE AT KINKYS UR FINGERS WILL B CUT OFF FIRST
July 2 2008 8:28 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
ULL SOON MEET UR MAKER
July 7 2008 2:00 am
SHE’S DEAD ASSWIPE
July 8 2008 3:30 pm
YOU AND TAMAR ARE DEFINITELY ABOUT 2 BE EXTERMINATED. FUCK YOUR CODE WORDS I CAN FIND BOTH OF U AND ELIMINATE U WITHIN THE HOUR IF I WANTED 2
July 8 2008 3:45 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
MY DAD WILL DO IT
July 9 2008 11:46 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOUR DEAD
July 9 2008 2:48 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Like I give a shit fact of the matter is you committed yet another felony when you stabbed Linus and it’s the end for you period
July 9 2008 3:13 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
SHOULD HAVE BEEN YOU
July 11 2008 2:09 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
DON’T WORRY YOULL BE GONE FOREVER 2 COCKSUCKER
July 13 2008 9:34 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
GOT THE BLENDER SET 2 PUREE BOTH OF YOU. U HAVE NO RIGHT CALLING CASA ESPERANZA YOUR GONNA PAY 4 A HOTEL ROOM 4 ME COCK SUCKER
ROBERT CATALFAMO
GUN MY ASS THEY DON’T LET INSANE ANAL LUBE CAT MURDERERS 2 CARRY GUNS IN THEIR BRIGGS N RILEY BUT I GOT A 1920S BILLY CLUB USED 2 KILL NIGGERS WE CAN GO PLAY W
RODNEY PETERSON
You’re the cat murderer and evil cocksucker who needs an axe to your skull and a baseball bat to your knee and elbow the next time you stalk tamar
July 14 2008 9:05 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I HAVE AN ALLEY 4 U WITH YOUR GUN AND MY BILLY CLUB LETS MEET
July 14 2008 1:15 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU DON’T SCARE ME ASSWIPE AND YOUR NOT SAFE AND I DON’T JUST MEAN DOG SHIT IN YOUR CRACKS
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU THINK U KNOW EVERYTHING YOU DON’T AND YOUR DAYS AND HOURS NUMBERED
July 14 2008 1:36 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Going to get an axe if you come anywhere near me I will chop you in the neck the same way you did Linus but you wont be breathing afterwards you disgusting butt ugly piece of shit
July 14 2008 6:00 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
They’re also causing me to lose my temper with you in addition to being a clear and dangerous threat to both of our lives
July 14 2008 6:43 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
ASSHOLE YOUR FINISHED
ROBERT CATALFAMO
TAMAR HATES YOUR GUTS AND YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED
July 14 2008 7:03 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Tamar it is YOUR goddamn fault you allowed this piece of shit into your life to stab Linus and choke me it is time for you to get off the fucking fence
July 14 2008 7:26 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Tamar you may not give a shit about your life which makes it harder to care but I care about my life and I’m filing felony charges
July 14 2008 8:12 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
I am really sorry for being so angry at you tamar but I can no longer just sit and let this piece of shit continually commit felonies and hurt both of us
July 14 2008 9:09 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I TOLD U THE CUNT HATES YOU BET U HOPE SHE KILLS HERSELF OTHERWISE WE CAN GET THAT AXE AND DO IT TOGETHER OK
RODNEY PETERSON
What are you going to do with that axe?
ROBERT CATALFAMO
HELP YOU U FUCKER YOU ARE SO LAME GUESS LIVING AT KINKOS IS MAKING YOU LOSE YOUR MEMORY OR YOUR AGE SHOULD START ASKING 4 A SENIOR DISCOUNT HA HA HA
July 14 2008 9:32 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU THINK YOUR ENTITLED 2 EVERYTHING THE ONLY THING THE PRESS CARE ABOUT IS YOUR DEATH AND SO WILL THE LAPD
July 14 2008 10:01 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
U THINK UR THE SHIT BUT YOUR NOT JUST TURD THAT NEEDS 2 BE EXTERMINATED
MENACING BY STALKING
July 2 2008 1:28 am
TAMAR
Robert by the way is so convinced that I’m hanging out with Michael it’s to the point of extreme jealousy
July 4 2008 7:00 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I’LL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE SO WISHFUL THINKING. U THINK YOU GOT OFF FREE BUT U DIDN’T
July 11 2008 5:37 am
TAMAR
Hope u can sleep. I cant cuz asshole keeps calling. Need 2 have phone on in case of emergency n cuz I worry that ur safe. Gonna lie down even if cant sleep
MENACING BY STALKING AND INTERNET CRIMES
July 6 2008 2:54 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOUR IPHONE WON’T BE SAFE FOREVER YOU WILL GET A SIGNATURE 2 AND YOU WON’T BE ABLE 2 CALL OUT AND YOUR TEXTS WILL DELETE 2. CAN’T WAIT TILL U BITE THE DUST
THREATS WITH INTENT TO COMMIT GREAT BODILY HARM
July 2 2008 6:43 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
U MAY NOT BE GOING 2 LOCK UP N IF NOT U WILL BE SITTING AT KINKYS WITH NO FINGERS WATCHING EVERYONE ELSE TYPE PLUS THE CUNTS PERMANENTLY HOMELESS
ADMITTING TO STABBING LINUS
July 6 2008 7:15 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
BET U WISH U WERE AS SMART AND THOUGHT OF STABBING THE PUSSY
July 13 2008 2:11 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
CAT MURDERER BET U USED ANAL LUBE 2 GREASE UP KNIFE U USED 2 STAB TAMARS PUSSY
PSYCHOTIC IDEATION AND MENACING BY STALKING
July 6 2008 5:23 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I WAS MUCH BETTER THAN SHE DESERVED SHE CHOSE 2 THROW ME AWAY
July 6 2008 7:01 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
BITCH HATES UR FUCKEN GUTS THAT’S WHO SHE’LL GO 2 THE COPS 4 BUT SHE’LL HOPEFULLY GET PUT AWAY 4 EVER YOU 2
July 7 2008 2:15 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
I smell a dirty rat at kinkys u will soon really suffer beyond everyones means
July 8 2008 5:30 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
HA HA HA ABOUT TIME THE BITCH FEELS SOME PAIN LIKES 2 DISH IT OUT BUT CANT TAKE IT DIE BITCH DIE
July 8 2008 5:55 pm
TAMAR
Youre so evil I know its u writing. Rodney wouldn’t text me such nasty words and you r blocking me from calling faggot
TAMAR
What a stupid ass I know very well that was not a cop calling me. U don’t disguise your voice well. Your dad is probably such an embarassment to lapd
July 8 2008 8:07 pm
TAMAR
Got my phone 4 few minutes cuz missed last phone break while sleeping. Don’t know if you’ll get this or asshole will. But if u do want u 2 know I appreciate what
TAMAR
U are doing 2 help me. Hopefully we can put an end to this nightmare 4 good. Been feeling so sick not sure why
ROBERT CATALFAMO
WHAT A PATHETIC COUPLE. GLAD SHE’S SUFFERING ITS ABOUT TIME AND YOUR NEXT.
ROBERT CATALFAMO
KNEW I COULD CONFUSE YOU 2 AND MAKE YOU HATE EACH OTHER IM THE MASTER
July 8 2008 8:30 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
DON’T WANT THAT BITCH ANYWAY SHE BETRAYED ME IN 2 MANY WAYS BUT THE LAST WAS GIVING OUT MY NUMBER AND TOLD INTIMATE DETAILS ABOUT ME BONDING WITH HER CAT
July 10 2008 6:37 am
TAMAR
Its me im leaving in a little while cuz asshole tracked me down. Guess giving each other clues isn’t safe either. Listened 2 voice mail just now n hes
TAMAR
Not gonna stop at anything. 22 threatening n vulgar msgs cant save them cuz my voice mail has very small capacity. Its getting worse n worse his harassment
TAMAR
Bunch of lame crap but basically is high even tho text from other day said hes sober. Has 2 b high leaving 22 deranged msgs throughout the nite. So gotta leave 2
TAMAR
Somewhere safe. Wish the clue thing worked but apparently were talking about a very sick piece of shot who will stop at nothing
July 10 2008 8:35 am
TAMAR
Becuz im not getting released 2 b free im going 2 another place. Hes after me and im not safe that’s y I hav 2 b careful about clues. Hes not after u like he is me
July 10 2008 8:45 am
TAMAR
Unless he gets the death penalty or life in prison I will always have 2 live in fear. Guess my texts are being intercepted as usual. Fuck you robert rot in hell
July 10 2008 11:24 am
TAMAR
Just got 2 my moms n trying 2 send u msg from comp but my whole address book is gone so im going to put in ur # again
July 10 2008 9:00 pm
RODNEY PETERSON
Tamar stop being afraid and prosecute this piece of shit police are going to be behind you time to step up and show some balls
July 13 2008 2:31 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
LOTSA GIRLS WANT ME I WAS JUST LAME AND AM SO GRATEFUL THE CUNT DIDN’T WANT ME SHE SURE HAD A CHANCE AND WONT FIND ANYONES DRADEL AS GOOD AS MINE NOT EVEN U
July 14 2008 9:48 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
U AND THE BITCH AND THE FAGGOT MCGEE R PROBABLY HAVING MASTURBATION PARTIES
HOMOSEXUAL ANAL RAPE OBSESSION AND ANAL LUBE OBSESSION
April 21 2008 9:44 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
Did some bird turd fall in ur anal lube while u slept by the tree. Should’ve closed the cap 2 the astro glide didn’t ur mama teach u about ur backdoor
April 30 2008 5:25 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
You’re going 2 pay with your ass 4 what you’ve done and won’t have time 2 lube it up you’ll have 2 take it raw and feel it rip
June 26 2008 2:36 am
ROBERT CATALFAMO
Theres no section 8 in the loony bin the most ull get is ward 8 or be sectioned off by 8 anal lube drippers who r eagerly waiting ur arrival cocksucker
June 26 2008 3:00 am
TAMAR
Ok this is bs go back 2 ur porn or crossdressing with clothes u find in the dumpster. Ur childish games r beyond sick
June 27 2008 8:18 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU WILL REGRET THAT DECISION I GUARANTEE COCKSUCKER. BET UR PLANNING ON HITTING SEX SHOP 2 LOAD UP ON ANAL LUBE. TOO BAD U CAN’T BRING IT 2 LOCK UP
June 29 2008 8:43 pm
TAMAR
Stop ringing my door pervert child molester and u r pretty lame 2 continue w ur obscene n vulgar texts. Pretty sick asking if I’m gonna rub lube on Linus.
July 8 2008 5:09 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
YOU LOVE TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF AND YOUR ANUS
July 8 2008 9:16 pm
ROBERT CATALFAMO
UR SO FINISHED. AT LEAST I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSEKF IN JAIL YOULL GET SO PUNISHED 4 CRYING 2 THE WARDEN OVER LAME THINGS. IVE ALERTED MY FRIENDS ABOUT YOU HA HA HA
OTHER CRIMES
July 8 2008 8:47 pm
TAMAR
hope this important text gets 2 u. forgot to tell u that place in sb gives him job its called labor ready. Even driving jobs they need 2 know he drives under
TAMAR
The influence. When they gave him job at Albertsons he stole a lot of stuff. Cant prove it 4 sure cuz he will deny telling me but they can verify dui cuz his
TAMAR
Last job at action roofing he was fired 4 that n using the company gas card. Im sure he wasn’t at the child support hearing he got served papers in april
TAMAR
Those papers were 2 determine he was the father once again. Lost count of how many kids deadbeat dad has and how many are trying 2 prove he is
TAMAR
All thru ventura county
TAMAR
No action roofing paid dmv cuz they needed him 2 drive. Assume if they knew what his history was theyd not have paid over $400 2 get his license reinstated
July 8 2008 9:01 pm
TAMAR
Also tried 2 kill u u said Cassidy has messages with his voice saying that. So not just threat 2 animals
Rodney Peterson
310-498-6394
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
laketahoe32@gmail.com
Thursday, January 24, 2008
AT LEAST ELEVEN THINGS THAT I HAVE IN COMMON WITH ACADEMY AWARD WINNING SCREENWRITER DIABLO CODY ( "JUNO" )
I have now posted the original E-Mail to Diablo Cody here. To clarify, however, at least one person with some type of apparent problem has posted comments to the effect I have some type of unhealthy obsession with Diablo Cody. This both angers and hurts me and is not the truth. I simply find it interesting and even amazing that I have so much in common with a writer who is a strong unique voice and certain to win an Oscar. I'm not even her type-whatever that may be-and I know it. But why would I not want to be friends with a unique, intelligent woman I have so much in common with and would be someone who would be pleasurable to know as a friend? The real love of my life is the girl who is the central character in this film who I met under extremely strange circumstances and fate has played a part in that relationship since most likely the day we were born. One very unusual thing that has happened among the many is something that probably won't be in the film but will be in the book-both this girl, Tamar, and I have had in very recent years EMERGENCY LIFE SAVING SURGERY on our BIRTHDAYS (separate incidents) at Cedars-Sinai. Both of our birthdays occur on the 22nd. The mathematical odds of this are 1 in 365 times 1 in 365. One of the events that happened and it's written about in the film treatment/film script part of this blog is the fact that completely unplanned a short time after I had met this girl I ended up moving next door to her childhood home-what is unusual about this is the fact that we met under very strange circumstances. (Okay here's the deal and I have tons of proof this wasn't planned-in fact maybe a hundred E-Mails to various people-I answered a Craigs List roommate ad I still have the reply to and followup E-Mail. I did not even believe the ad was real at first because of the horrible grammar. When I learned that in a city the size of Los Angeles and neighboring communities that I had ended up next door to the childhood home of a horribly abused girl that went straight to my SOUL on first sight I was SHOCKED-mathematically this is like winning the lottery.) In addition to that from the very second I saw this girl I was completely mesmerized-I couldn't even move or close my mouth. Add to that how many millions of housing units exist in Los Angeles County and Orange County and you have the beginnings of a very unique story. She did not have a happy childhood by any means and is a woman who is a true anolamy in that she grew up highly privileged in Beverly Hills AND her father makes a fortune treating the misery of other people. In fact, he owns not only a pricey private Malibu psychiatric residential clinic-$40,000 a month-cash only-but also two group homes in West Hollywood. An immediate family member of a very well respected and known entertainment personality who has been very supportive of the WGA during the strike digging very deep-to the tune of thousands and thousands of dollars-into his or her own well lined pockets to support the members during the strike lives at one of those group homes because that family member requires round the clock care. Obviously I'm not going to say who it is. What irks me is that as well as this girls father treats his patients and disabled residents the same is not true of his own family. Tamar and I are both basically homeless at the moment and I know she has had to collect cans just to get money to eat at times while her father has deep pockets and this really upsets me. Had Tamar not been horribly abused as a girl and not come into my life in a magical way there would be no Cutting Confessions film and book project. By the way, her childhood home happens to be less than a block from the WGA theater in Beverly Hills.
This is an E-Mail originally written January 19th and sent to Diablo Cody describing nine things I have in common with her. Please note that at the time I had just watched Juno and believed that the film was autobiographical-and it is, to some extent but I wrote this letter really thinking Juno had been based on her (and in some ways, she was.)
Hi Diablo/Brook
First off thanks for accepting my friend request. I really wanted to E-Mail you and that was the only way I could. I don’t know if you read my profile page or just accepted me as a matter of course but if you did or had it read “If this is Diablo Cody, please read the about me section.”
So if you’ve already heard any of this stuff before, I’m just repeating some of it to be safe.
The bottom line is that you and I have a lot in common which was a surprise to me. I became aware of you after watching Juno (had heard your name previous, of course) and realized after seeing your photo I saw you Monday on the picket lines at Warner Bros. I wanted to talk to you but you were with your friend most of the time and he talked to me and I gave him a business card. I was the guy with that stupid U.S. flag red white and blue novelty hat (more on that later.) We have so much in common it’s worth an E-Mail and I hope we can form a friendship. Here are some of the things I know so far we have in common:
1. I am from Minnesota (Brooklyn Park, which is walking distance from the Starbucks inside a Target store where you wrote Juno.)
2. My father is also in heating and air conditioning as is yours (assuming the character is based on your real life father. He worked most of his adult life for Constrom’s Heating and Air Conditioning which is based in St. Louis Park. He was/is a member of the sheet metal workers union and later in his career he worked for other union companies. It would not be surprising if our fathers know each other-at least through co workers (assuming your father worked in Minneapolis.)
3. I have worked in strip clubs as a Disc Jockey at times.
4. We have both written movies with strong, intelligent, unique female lead characters (in this case the girl is based on a real life Beverly Hills girl who grew up horribly abused. Starting at the age of 12 she started seriously attempting suicide and became a cutter. Fate has brought us together and the things that have happened between us from the moment we met are acts of God/Forces of The Universe and there are quite a lot of them. That’s why I started writing (more later.)
5. Both of our films feature a similar unique line that is set up in a unique way in each case. In your film Juno/Ellen says “The baby’s heart beats faster when I’m around you. It’s because my heart beats faster when I’m around you.” The similar line towards the very end of Cutting Confessions is the result of a conversation that takes place during a Las Vegas thunderstorm.
6. In Juno, the adoptive couple is from St. Cloud. As an adolescent, I was a resident of the St. Cloud Children’s Home. It’s pretty nice-they have a barn with horses, a hill that ices over for tobogganing down to the Mississippi River shore in the winter, a lake house outside town with a speedboat and water-skiing, in house psychologists, psychiatrists, schooling, part time jobs in the kitchen and so on. I’m telling you this because if you’ve ever wondered if your son or daughter (in the movie-son) ever ended up there he or she would have been well taken care of. I am NOT telling you this to make you feel bad about your choices and I can tell you more if you like.
7. Both Juno and Cutting Confessions end with music and the friends becoming lovers (to a degree in each film.) Both also end with uplifting songs-in the case of Cutting Confessions that song is used twice-both the original and the remake at the end (you’ll see why when you read the film treatment and portions of the script at my blog which I’ll give you the address to later.)
8. If your connection to Wyoming goes beyond the name Cody, I also spent time in Wyoming-as a radio disc jockey in Casper.
9. Juno/Ellen/you is a very smart and personable girl. This is also true of Tamar who like yourself is unique. To escape the horrendous abuse she received from her mother and father she began reading. She loves books and is a college student. She has also worked with autistic children.
What happened that set me on the path to being a writer was that the girl, Tamar and myself met under very unusual circumstances. There’s no way we should have ever met if you look at our respective timelines (also at my blog) and from the second I met her I was completely blown away-she chose that moment to cut herself to the point she needed 86 stitches to close the wounds on her arms. But I didn’t even notice because I couldn’t tear my eyes away from her face or even close my mouth. This happened in February 2006 in a locked ward in a Pasadena hospital when she walked into my room seconds after I arrived. When I left that hospital I began an apartment search that covered practically all of Southern California. I have tons of E-Mails to prove I was looking all over. But where I ended up was RIGHT NEXT DOOR to Tamar’s childhood home where her abusive mother still loves today. I had no idea where that home was and ending up there was the mathematical equivalent of winning the lottery considering how many millions of housing units are in this city.
Several other things have happened that are nearly impossible just like that and fate has always had a hand in keeping us together-although personal relationships are difficult for her as you can probably imagine.
One such occurrence that works well in a book but probably doesn’t translate well to film is that last summer I had emergency surgery at Cedars-Sinai-paltes and pins were inserted in my left elbow following a 2002 rollerblading accident that had become infected and had to be removed. As a result of that, both Tamar and I have had EMERGENCY LIFE SAVING SURGERY on our BIRTHDAYS at Cedars-Sinai in very recent years. Both of our birthdays occur on the 22nd. Tamar also had a scare with a possible bone infection from broken glass from a mirror shortly after I did.
About that hat-I wear that because I’m trying to move this project forward and I wear it with signs proclaiming so usually on the Sunset Strip (but haven’t done it for three weeks now due to a broken suitcase last week and broken shoes this week-I’m homeless (you saw me toting a suitcase and sleeping bag) because things Tamar told me led me to believe she had been the victim if attempted murder in her childhood and I reported this to the Beverly Hills Police. Reporting your next door neighbors for attempted murder is pretty weird and I always felt angry at her mother which made it difficult to live next door (the father doesn’t live there because they are now divorced.) The circumstances of the alleged crimes however work well in another future project (characters based on these characters but a different story with different names.)
I am very worried about Tamar who is basically homeless as I am and much of what I am doing I am doing for her. She’s the heroine of the film and book and I want to be able to jump start some really terrific career paths for her and would like to see her doing better. She needs a great deal of medical and psychological help but in the worst case of government incompetence I have ever seen she is mostly denied the things she needs including Medicare which limits her options in the health care department. Meanwhile the father makes a fortune operating group homes for the disabled (which the government pays for) and also owns a Promises type facility in Malibu that charges $40,000 per patient per month-cash only-but he barely helps his daughter at all. When she was growing up he ignored all the abuse she was getting (along with her older sisters) from their mother. I met him one morning outside Kinko’s in Beverly Hills (I didn’t remember him at first from the hospital) while we were waiting for them to open. He was driving a brand new two door light blue BMW I estimate to cost $90,000. I was really pissed off because I knew Tamar had had to collect cans just to eat at this time. That eventually led to me contacting the police. The attempted murder, etc. have been removed from the current script because there’s already enough drama and I’m positioning the story as a love story between two misfits who find each other by fate (in the vein of Leaving Las Vegas but with a happy ending-also similar in some ways to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest but the bottom line is that like Juno it is a true original.
The blog with the film treatment and portions of the script is here:
www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com
By the way one of the characters (and someone I met in real life) is an ex-stripper. There is a really memorable stripping scene in the film that is very dramatic (much more like Quentin Tarantino than Showgirls.) Also, I would be honored if you read it and liked it-there is one really fun scene (not the stripping scene) that it would be extremely cool to work with you on and polish.
The self promotion thing I am doing us similar to what Dennis Woodruff does in some ways. He’s the guy with the day glo painted cars that say “Hire me I’m an actor” all over you see driving around town. The differences are I’m not completely crazy, I try to be polite and personable while self promoting and I have a very specific project instead of being all over the place. I do NOT like wearing that hat and those signs, I do it because I HAVE to. But hopefully by meeting and making friends with people like you I’ll be able to move this forward and not have to do that.
I really have a lot of respect for what you did with Juno and I realize I’m watching in a little over 90 minutes what you really went through for nine months. The other thing our films have in common is that they’re meant to be uplifting-especially to girls. In your case for tons of women who have made the type of decision you did, and in my films case that there is always hope no matter how bad your childhood may have been and that happiness and love can be found.
I’m really glad I had the chance to write this letter and I hope you like Cutting Confessions and we can form the basis for a solid friendship based on our many similarities even though we are different in many ways (just as you and the Reitmans.)
Best Always
Rodney Peterson
Cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com
310-498-6394
Again, I wrote that thinking Juno was autobiographical and she really did have a child as a teenager. Since that time two more commonalities can be added to the list. The tenth is an easy one-we’re both screenwriters and the eleventh is that both Cutting Confessions and Diablo Cody’s next film Jennifer’s Body share a similar and very unusual major story element.
My sign today on the picket lines at NBC:
SIDE 1: "ASK ME ABOUT NINE THINGS I HAVE IN COMMON WITH DIABLO CODY"
SIDE 2: "IF IT'S MADE BY GE...AND IT'S NOT A MISSILE...IT'S A PIECE OF CRAP!!!
(The idea behind the signs and writing about these commonalities is not to say hey look at me I'm weird and I have a thing for this girl-are you kidding?-they're to use that commonality for positive promotion and to encourage a positive response from her and those around her.)
www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
310-498-6394
Another thing I'd like to address here is the fact that WGA Vice President David Weiss has promised to read my script for a possible agent referral. This is exciting in many ways and is something that boggles my mind a bit because many things that are dear to his heart are included in this story. Number one, our heroine is Jewish and David is a man with a deep history of religious conviction and study and very knowledgeable of Judaism. I'm not Jewish but I've been deeply and instantly attracted in a very strange way to a beautiful and terrific talented Jewish girl and that plays heavily in real life. David has written some very good films, including Shrek 2, and like that film this film has many moral elements-in fact the moral elements can be endless at times from my perception as the person living the male half of this story. It's almost as if I've been chosen for something very special-the unexplainable and instant attraction to Tamar, the deep religious undertones, the connection to a new and exciting Hollywood screenwriter, and a guy I met purely through my personal efforts of walking the picket lines every day by my own choice who is not only a labor leader but a family guy with deep religious convictions now apparently thrust right into the middle of a very symbolic story and the lives of two very unique people-one a Jewish girl and the other a non Jewish guy who loves the Jewish girl with every fabric of his being and is overwhelmed by all that has happened and is happening (Actually it appears as if David Weiss is a hypocrite-he has never contacted me and part of me believes it possible he along with other WGA board members could have taken bribes to settle the strike in a less than favorable fashion for the writers, paricularly with regards to favored nations clauses, because the excuse they use for failing in regards to that clause is suspicious.)
This is an E-Mail originally written January 19th and sent to Diablo Cody describing nine things I have in common with her. Please note that at the time I had just watched Juno and believed that the film was autobiographical-and it is, to some extent but I wrote this letter really thinking Juno had been based on her (and in some ways, she was.)
Hi Diablo/Brook
First off thanks for accepting my friend request. I really wanted to E-Mail you and that was the only way I could. I don’t know if you read my profile page or just accepted me as a matter of course but if you did or had it read “If this is Diablo Cody, please read the about me section.”
So if you’ve already heard any of this stuff before, I’m just repeating some of it to be safe.
The bottom line is that you and I have a lot in common which was a surprise to me. I became aware of you after watching Juno (had heard your name previous, of course) and realized after seeing your photo I saw you Monday on the picket lines at Warner Bros. I wanted to talk to you but you were with your friend most of the time and he talked to me and I gave him a business card. I was the guy with that stupid U.S. flag red white and blue novelty hat (more on that later.) We have so much in common it’s worth an E-Mail and I hope we can form a friendship. Here are some of the things I know so far we have in common:
1. I am from Minnesota (Brooklyn Park, which is walking distance from the Starbucks inside a Target store where you wrote Juno.)
2. My father is also in heating and air conditioning as is yours (assuming the character is based on your real life father. He worked most of his adult life for Constrom’s Heating and Air Conditioning which is based in St. Louis Park. He was/is a member of the sheet metal workers union and later in his career he worked for other union companies. It would not be surprising if our fathers know each other-at least through co workers (assuming your father worked in Minneapolis.)
3. I have worked in strip clubs as a Disc Jockey at times.
4. We have both written movies with strong, intelligent, unique female lead characters (in this case the girl is based on a real life Beverly Hills girl who grew up horribly abused. Starting at the age of 12 she started seriously attempting suicide and became a cutter. Fate has brought us together and the things that have happened between us from the moment we met are acts of God/Forces of The Universe and there are quite a lot of them. That’s why I started writing (more later.)
5. Both of our films feature a similar unique line that is set up in a unique way in each case. In your film Juno/Ellen says “The baby’s heart beats faster when I’m around you. It’s because my heart beats faster when I’m around you.” The similar line towards the very end of Cutting Confessions is the result of a conversation that takes place during a Las Vegas thunderstorm.
6. In Juno, the adoptive couple is from St. Cloud. As an adolescent, I was a resident of the St. Cloud Children’s Home. It’s pretty nice-they have a barn with horses, a hill that ices over for tobogganing down to the Mississippi River shore in the winter, a lake house outside town with a speedboat and water-skiing, in house psychologists, psychiatrists, schooling, part time jobs in the kitchen and so on. I’m telling you this because if you’ve ever wondered if your son or daughter (in the movie-son) ever ended up there he or she would have been well taken care of. I am NOT telling you this to make you feel bad about your choices and I can tell you more if you like.
7. Both Juno and Cutting Confessions end with music and the friends becoming lovers (to a degree in each film.) Both also end with uplifting songs-in the case of Cutting Confessions that song is used twice-both the original and the remake at the end (you’ll see why when you read the film treatment and portions of the script at my blog which I’ll give you the address to later.)
8. If your connection to Wyoming goes beyond the name Cody, I also spent time in Wyoming-as a radio disc jockey in Casper.
9. Juno/Ellen/you is a very smart and personable girl. This is also true of Tamar who like yourself is unique. To escape the horrendous abuse she received from her mother and father she began reading. She loves books and is a college student. She has also worked with autistic children.
What happened that set me on the path to being a writer was that the girl, Tamar and myself met under very unusual circumstances. There’s no way we should have ever met if you look at our respective timelines (also at my blog) and from the second I met her I was completely blown away-she chose that moment to cut herself to the point she needed 86 stitches to close the wounds on her arms. But I didn’t even notice because I couldn’t tear my eyes away from her face or even close my mouth. This happened in February 2006 in a locked ward in a Pasadena hospital when she walked into my room seconds after I arrived. When I left that hospital I began an apartment search that covered practically all of Southern California. I have tons of E-Mails to prove I was looking all over. But where I ended up was RIGHT NEXT DOOR to Tamar’s childhood home where her abusive mother still loves today. I had no idea where that home was and ending up there was the mathematical equivalent of winning the lottery considering how many millions of housing units are in this city.
Several other things have happened that are nearly impossible just like that and fate has always had a hand in keeping us together-although personal relationships are difficult for her as you can probably imagine.
One such occurrence that works well in a book but probably doesn’t translate well to film is that last summer I had emergency surgery at Cedars-Sinai-paltes and pins were inserted in my left elbow following a 2002 rollerblading accident that had become infected and had to be removed. As a result of that, both Tamar and I have had EMERGENCY LIFE SAVING SURGERY on our BIRTHDAYS at Cedars-Sinai in very recent years. Both of our birthdays occur on the 22nd. Tamar also had a scare with a possible bone infection from broken glass from a mirror shortly after I did.
About that hat-I wear that because I’m trying to move this project forward and I wear it with signs proclaiming so usually on the Sunset Strip (but haven’t done it for three weeks now due to a broken suitcase last week and broken shoes this week-I’m homeless (you saw me toting a suitcase and sleeping bag) because things Tamar told me led me to believe she had been the victim if attempted murder in her childhood and I reported this to the Beverly Hills Police. Reporting your next door neighbors for attempted murder is pretty weird and I always felt angry at her mother which made it difficult to live next door (the father doesn’t live there because they are now divorced.) The circumstances of the alleged crimes however work well in another future project (characters based on these characters but a different story with different names.)
I am very worried about Tamar who is basically homeless as I am and much of what I am doing I am doing for her. She’s the heroine of the film and book and I want to be able to jump start some really terrific career paths for her and would like to see her doing better. She needs a great deal of medical and psychological help but in the worst case of government incompetence I have ever seen she is mostly denied the things she needs including Medicare which limits her options in the health care department. Meanwhile the father makes a fortune operating group homes for the disabled (which the government pays for) and also owns a Promises type facility in Malibu that charges $40,000 per patient per month-cash only-but he barely helps his daughter at all. When she was growing up he ignored all the abuse she was getting (along with her older sisters) from their mother. I met him one morning outside Kinko’s in Beverly Hills (I didn’t remember him at first from the hospital) while we were waiting for them to open. He was driving a brand new two door light blue BMW I estimate to cost $90,000. I was really pissed off because I knew Tamar had had to collect cans just to eat at this time. That eventually led to me contacting the police. The attempted murder, etc. have been removed from the current script because there’s already enough drama and I’m positioning the story as a love story between two misfits who find each other by fate (in the vein of Leaving Las Vegas but with a happy ending-also similar in some ways to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest but the bottom line is that like Juno it is a true original.
The blog with the film treatment and portions of the script is here:
www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com
By the way one of the characters (and someone I met in real life) is an ex-stripper. There is a really memorable stripping scene in the film that is very dramatic (much more like Quentin Tarantino than Showgirls.) Also, I would be honored if you read it and liked it-there is one really fun scene (not the stripping scene) that it would be extremely cool to work with you on and polish.
The self promotion thing I am doing us similar to what Dennis Woodruff does in some ways. He’s the guy with the day glo painted cars that say “Hire me I’m an actor” all over you see driving around town. The differences are I’m not completely crazy, I try to be polite and personable while self promoting and I have a very specific project instead of being all over the place. I do NOT like wearing that hat and those signs, I do it because I HAVE to. But hopefully by meeting and making friends with people like you I’ll be able to move this forward and not have to do that.
I really have a lot of respect for what you did with Juno and I realize I’m watching in a little over 90 minutes what you really went through for nine months. The other thing our films have in common is that they’re meant to be uplifting-especially to girls. In your case for tons of women who have made the type of decision you did, and in my films case that there is always hope no matter how bad your childhood may have been and that happiness and love can be found.
I’m really glad I had the chance to write this letter and I hope you like Cutting Confessions and we can form the basis for a solid friendship based on our many similarities even though we are different in many ways (just as you and the Reitmans.)
Best Always
Rodney Peterson
Cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com
310-498-6394
Again, I wrote that thinking Juno was autobiographical and she really did have a child as a teenager. Since that time two more commonalities can be added to the list. The tenth is an easy one-we’re both screenwriters and the eleventh is that both Cutting Confessions and Diablo Cody’s next film Jennifer’s Body share a similar and very unusual major story element.
My sign today on the picket lines at NBC:
SIDE 1: "ASK ME ABOUT NINE THINGS I HAVE IN COMMON WITH DIABLO CODY"
SIDE 2: "IF IT'S MADE BY GE...AND IT'S NOT A MISSILE...IT'S A PIECE OF CRAP!!!
(The idea behind the signs and writing about these commonalities is not to say hey look at me I'm weird and I have a thing for this girl-are you kidding?-they're to use that commonality for positive promotion and to encourage a positive response from her and those around her.)
www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
310-498-6394
Another thing I'd like to address here is the fact that WGA Vice President David Weiss has promised to read my script for a possible agent referral. This is exciting in many ways and is something that boggles my mind a bit because many things that are dear to his heart are included in this story. Number one, our heroine is Jewish and David is a man with a deep history of religious conviction and study and very knowledgeable of Judaism. I'm not Jewish but I've been deeply and instantly attracted in a very strange way to a beautiful and terrific talented Jewish girl and that plays heavily in real life. David has written some very good films, including Shrek 2, and like that film this film has many moral elements-in fact the moral elements can be endless at times from my perception as the person living the male half of this story. It's almost as if I've been chosen for something very special-the unexplainable and instant attraction to Tamar, the deep religious undertones, the connection to a new and exciting Hollywood screenwriter, and a guy I met purely through my personal efforts of walking the picket lines every day by my own choice who is not only a labor leader but a family guy with deep religious convictions now apparently thrust right into the middle of a very symbolic story and the lives of two very unique people-one a Jewish girl and the other a non Jewish guy who loves the Jewish girl with every fabric of his being and is overwhelmed by all that has happened and is happening (Actually it appears as if David Weiss is a hypocrite-he has never contacted me and part of me believes it possible he along with other WGA board members could have taken bribes to settle the strike in a less than favorable fashion for the writers, paricularly with regards to favored nations clauses, because the excuse they use for failing in regards to that clause is suspicious.)
Monday, December 17, 2007
ON THE WGA PICKET LINE OUTSIDE FOX STUDIOS
WGA STRIKER CRITIQUED BY AWARD WINNING WRITER/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR
JAMES L. BROOKS ON PICKET LINES OUTSIDE FOX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA December 17, 2007
First time writer and WGA picketer Rodney Peterson had his work critiqued on the picket line in front of Fox Studios Monday afternoon by legendary writer/producer/director James L. Brooks of Terms Of Endearment, Broadcast News, The Simpsons, Mary Tyler Moore, etc. fame. The work was a picket sign Peterson had written earlier in the day. Crossing the street in front of the Motor Avenue gate, Peterson saw his chance to introduce himself to Brooks. “With a guy as famous and successful as James L. Brooks, millions of people are approaching him and I didn’t feel comfortable just walking up to him while he was picketing himself or talking with other writers on the picket line, but I did want to meet him and talk to him-thankfully I had the chance to make that a memorable meeting.” Peterson introduced himself to Brooks then asked him to critique his picket sign, which Peterson had written to look like a script. It read EXT.-DAY OUTSIDE FOX STUDIOS HUNDREDS OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS ARE ENGAGED IN AN IMPORTANT STRIKE DECIDING HOLLYWOOD’S FUTURE. SUDDENLY THE ENTIRE PICKET LINE BEGINS TO “WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN”. STUDIO CHIEF: “LOOK, IT’S THE CURSE OF RAMSES!” LACKEY: “I SUGGEST YOU GIVE IN TO THEIR DEMANDS, SIR!” STUDIO CHIEF: “WE BETTER. MAGIC SCARES ME.” “He (Brooks) couldn’t have been more friendly and gracious”, Peterson stated, then added “He smiled and grinned as he was reading the sign and I could tell he liked it which was very cool. And then he said “That’s great, man!” I also told him I was writing a unique script entitled Cutting Confessions and now wasn’t the time but that I hoped to talk with him about it at another time.”
Peterson has been a fixture at the Fox picket lines for several weeks now and always pickets wearing a highly recognizable red white and blue U.S. flag felt hat that is nearly a foot tall. “Some people assume I’m very patriotic”, Peterson stated, then added “But the truth is it’s part of a promotional ensemble I wear around town along with some other (non picketing) signs I’ve written to attract attention to my script which has some of the elements of the 1975 Best Picture Winner One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest but it’s also a very different kind of love story based on real life events between a very unusual and talented Beverly Hills girl and myself. It’s the reason I became a writer.”
“Then I realized that the WGA strike was about me as a future writer and member of the WGA as well as the current talent pool of writers, actors, directors and Hollywood professionals. So I decided to start picketing with my fellow writers and I’ve really been impressed by the resolve of all the writers. I’m confident we can win this strike and I’ve learned a lot about why this strike is so important. It’s a privilege to be out here with the WGA.”
Peterson has posted the WGA registered film treatment along with portions of the WGA registered script for Cutting Confessions online and they can be found at www.cuttingconfessionsfilm.blogspot.com along with his personal thoughts as he walks the picket lines with the WGA.
Rodney Peterson
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
310-498-6394
Thursday, December 13, 2007
CUTTING CONFESSIONS FILM TREATMENT AND SCRIPT
CUTTING CONFESSIONS
WRITER: RODNEY PETERSON
WGA REGISTRATION: 1218345
CONTENTS OF THIS FILM TREATMENT AND SYNOPSIS
Brief Film Synopsis
2 E-Mails sent to Producers and other Interested Parties with
Project Details and Goals
The Original Film Synopsis Including Character Descriptions of
Some of the Key Characters
The Original Film Trailer Script
The Short Version of the Film Opening
The Complete Visually and Emotionally Stunning Scripted Film
Ending
CUTTING CONFESSIONS
LOGLINE:
A Beverly Hills girl, seemingly born into a life of wealth and privilege, is anything but. Her father, despite making a fortune treating the misery of others, both causes and ignores untold misery of his very own daughter as she is beaten for years by her psychotic and socially well regarded mother. At age 12 the girls deep pain entices her to take up both razor blades and repeated serious suicide attempts. Despite all the misery in her life, she becomes a brilliant college student, an artist of tremendous talent, and a very funny and caring beautiful woman. When she is hospitalized yet again following another serious suicide attempt fate steps in and literally sends a man through time and space to save her life. This is proven by nearly impossible acts of fate that repeatedly occur between the two, starting from the moment they meet. Throughout Pasadena, Beverly Hills and Las Vegas the two develop a tumultuous-and ultimately caring and lifelong significant bond-two misfits who find hope and destiny in each other.
BRIEF FILM SYNOPSIS
We open on Tamar as she does art as only she can (chalks, oils, paintings-she’s excellent at all. (NOTE: To get an idea of Tamar‘s artistic talent and style, take a look at the cover of the Moody Blues album/CD Days Of Future Passed.) We will quickly establish the chaos in her life that stands in sharp contrast to her talent. Cutting to my character we’ll illustrate how our two characters-miles and miles apart to begin with-are on a cosmic collision course straight for each other by establishing the timelines of each.
Tamar’s timeline includes the following events (we don’t need to show all of them, and not all of these are in order (but most are): arrest for shoplifting with a friend, arrest for DUI and driving under influence of crystal meth, cutting herself on her birthday while driving home from a Los Angeles casino, overdosing on 500 Tylenol PM tablets and stumbling around an art store before somehow driving herself to Las Encinas (the Pasadena psychiatric hospital where we met), immediately taken in an ambulance from Las Encinas to a hospital ICU for a week, being readmitted to Las Encinas and facing a competency hearing which she loses, then breaks away from the hospital attendant and runs away, eventually winding up in South Los Angeles where she once again cuts herself after locking herself in a Taco Bell restroom. She is then taken to a South Los Angeles hospital before being taken back to Las Encinas in time to meet me.
My character’s timeline includes leaving Minnesota via Amtrak, arriving in Los Angeles and attempting to check into Las Encinas but no beds are available and I am sent to a Orange County hospital, am discharged from there, sent to a really awful hospital, act up, get arrested and sent to another awful hospital. After leaving that hospital, I wind up in a Van Nuys hospital, leave there and once again attempt to check into Las Encinas but no beds are available and I must go to county hospital or the better option, my idea, to wait in a nearby hotel for an available bed. Four days later, a bed finally becomes available at Las Encinas, I check in which takes hours and arrive on the Cherokee unit where Tamar will walk into my room seconds after I arrive on the unit. That will be the almost impossible first meeting where Tamar cuts herself in the century old cottage like locked Cherokee unit but I’m so enthralled by her presence at first sight that I can’t tear my eyes away from her face or even close my mouth or stop my eyes from gazing wide open in wonder as frozen in time I know instantly that she is significant in my life beyond anything I can imagine. And there she is, practically bleeding to death in front of me from self inflicted razor cuts to her arms, but all I can see is her face.
When Tamar returns from the Emergency Room back to our hospital unit the next day, we build a chemistry filled relationship full of wit and energy and sometimes finish each other’s sentences or get into quick exchanges of witty banter (usually won by the girl.) We will see our two main characters interact with other characters both patients and staff-all highly memorable. The head nurse on the unit is personable, funny and interacts with the patients in creative and entertaining ways. But she isn’t what she always seems to be and is one of several characters we follow along in bits and pieces as the story works best as an ensemble piece ala Pulp Fiction with several parallel plots depicting the lives of supporting characters.
Tamar will discharge and I will remain a while longer but call her every day to establish a relationship to which she is initially reluctant. We will show me both getting into serious trouble and having fun in the hospital after the girl leaves (there is a comedic scene based on a real event which occurred in the hospital that has never been filmed before and is both highly imitable like Meg Ryan’s fake orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally and done correctly just as comically memorable as the eating beans around the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles but it is NOTHING like either activity.) Once I am released from the hospital, fate will keep stepping in to make sure Tamar and I never lose each other, even though she is now even more reluctant and rather freaked out. Tamar is constantly getting into trouble and my character is always there to more or less save her from herself.
Still Tamar fights her feelings any way she can yet allows Rodney to help her artistic career. My character introduces her to another artist and she develops a relationship. But all along her heart is unsure and can’t forget my character and the bizarre way he has come into her life. Meanwhile, other characters from the hospital, including the nurse, struggle with their own issues-sometimes life threatening.
Tamar realizes at almost the point it is too late that my character was her true love all along and she runs through rain and Las Vegas casino crowds to tell him her true feelings-if she’s not too late.
The following is an E-Mail sent to a producer about Cutting Confessions and contains further information regarding this film project:
Thank you for giving me the chance to introduce my unique film project. My vision and goal with this film has been for the film to approach both the storyline and technical quality of Goodfellas since day one, and it is very possible. Far from being just the writer or one of the writers, this story is deeply touching me and the idea is to make it as good as it can possibly be-and I am talking about Academy Award potential quality. Although I have never written or produced anything before (it is only real life events that are driving me to do so now as I am well aware of the ridiculous odds of what I am trying to accomplish and wouldn't even attempt it if I didn't have a great story) I see being involved as a key producer (but not the only one) in every phase of pre-production, production, editing, the dailies, post production and everything else right down to key decisions about the DVD/BluRay/HD-DVD extras and all of the marketing throughout (I think this is the type of film that works best with wide distribution and certainly has the potential to accrue a heavy international box office total and be the type of film that years from now many, many people will be purchasing the DVD’s, digital downloads and other forms of intellectual property and have conversations about films with each other and in groups and say “Cutting Confessions?” Now that's a good movie. It's one of my all time favorites." That may sound like a lofty ambition, but I believe a great deal in this story and it is doable. This is definitely an R Rated film. There are scenes of intense physical self harm as well as raunchy over the top comedy that can not be edited in such a way to take this film into PG-13 territory without significantly worsening the storyline and the overall concept. To put this into all time classics territory, it needs to hold on to it's raw edge-and trust me, it is raw edge. But in the end it will be highly entertaining, highly memorable and highly profitable.
Attached is an E-Mail sent to another interested party that explains this a bit more in detail.
I am very much looking forward to talking to you further about this project.
Rodney Peterson
310-498-6394
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
Another E-Mail sent to another potential producer:
Rodney Peterson writing you and first of all I'd like to thank you for giving me your card yesterday and for your initial interest in my film project.
What has happened is that I have been thrust into a very unique situation which is not only a terrific initial story, but has possibilities for multiple side projects as well both fiction and non fiction all stemming from the very unusual and touching main project.
It all concerns my involvement in the life of a girl who is a true anomaly in that she grew up highly privileged in Beverly Hills as the adorable Jewish daughter of fairly wealthy parents and rather unbelievably a father who makes his fortune in the mental health care field-yet ignored the cries of his own daughter as she was beaten for years by her mother. At the age of just 12, she started both repeatedly cutting herself and seriously attempting suicide over and over. Her life became an endless series of drama and setbacks, yet she still developed high intelligence through reading and a caring and magnetic personality as well as becoming quite an artist and a very funny woman. Even today as an adult, she stands just 4'11" and weighs all of 95 pounds. You can see right here what a terrific and rich character and character history I have to work with.
In February 2006, we met at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena and that meeting was so magnetic that all I could do was just stare at her face dumbfounded, unable to move or even close my mouth as she walked into my room seconds after I arrived on the locked Cherokee unit. I didn't even notice she had chosen that moment in time to cut herself-in a locked unit in a hospital, no less-to the point she required 86 stitches to close the wounds on her arms.
There's no way we should ever have met in the first place were it not for someone or something guiding us and there is where just one element of a terrific story exists. The real life events of the girl preceding that meeting are HIGHLY dramatic and my own timeline is as well, although not nearly as much.
Since that moment we met we have developed this incredible very rocky relationship of basically two misfits even though they are brilliant people being thrown together and things have continued to happen that are nearly mathematically impossible and appear to be further evidence of being thrown together by fate for either the purpose of a relationship or enriching each others lives to develop nurturing relationships with others. As I said, there's a lot of material here for several projects and a ton of unique and memorable characters that have the potential of making an everlasting impression with a wide audience. Evidence of this can be seen in that although films that deal with psychiatric hospitals are not common (in Las Encinas we have one of the worlds finest and most beautiful as well) but they are frequently hits and highly artistic and even award winners, as in the case of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and a later film also highly memorable while not an award winner itself Girl Interrupted. In addition, there is clear public demand for this type of subject matter as we are coming off one of the most acclaimed series of television history-HBO's The Sopranos-and psychiatry was heavily featured in that program.
How this relates on a storytelling level and why this film and story should be made and told is that it is basically real life magic and practically every female alive wishes from the time of being a little girl that magic and romance will somehow combine into their life. Here, it really has and into the lives of two very ordinary-and yet at the same time extraordinary people-a sort of match of misfits that has the potential of being one of the best mixes of chemistry ever to appear on film and make a ton of money for everyone, as well as be historic on film and pivotal in the lives of countless people as what kind of potential life can hold even if you don't always think so in that our characters end up being happy on screen (in the official version and behave in all kinds of different ways with different story angles and endings using other characters developed for other projects but based on our two initial characters, the girl and myself, but of course with no official connection as all the projects will be designed to be stories independent of each other. (Please note: although our subject matter is serious there is a ton of comedy in this film and my vision is best achieved with a happy ending. Our characters don't end up perfect but they do end up happy and hugely benefiting from each other. This is a huge difference from another film about two misfits, Leaving Las Vegas (or even Midnight Cowboy.) While both are excellent films, it is NOT where I want to take our characters. The audience should come away loving our characters, optimistic about their futures as well as optimistic about their (the audiences) own personal lives, wherever they may be in life. That will help get us into the category of classic film and one of everybody's favorite films. There will be enough high drama that doesn't end happily in some of our key supporting characters and that, too, will get us into Goodfellas territory.)
I'm very enthused about this project and I see writing and being involved with film making as something I will be doing for the rest of my life, although it is only these real life events that have motivated me in that direction and was never any kind of previous plan as I was a Disc Jockey and held various other positions for quite some time.
Again, thanks for your interest and I look forward to speaking with you further.
Rodney Peterson
310-498-6394
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
AN EARLIER FILM SYNOPSIS AND CHARACTER DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS:
THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
CUTE AND ADORABLE BEVERLY HILLS GIRL GROWS UP HORRIBLY ABUSED. AT AGE 12 SHE BECOMES A CUTTER AND A CHRONIC SUICIDE ATTEMPTER. 20 YEARS LATER FATE SENDS A MAN TO CHANGE HER LIFE FOR THE BETTER.
KEYWORDS
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Girl Interrupted
The Unexplainable
Fate
Psycho Romance
Drama
Comedy
Rich Characters
THIS FILM WILL FEATURE A SCENE NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN CINEMA THAT WILL BECOME WIDELY IMITATED BY THE GENERAL PUBLIC (as in Meg Ryan’s restaurant orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally-complete details later in this synopsis.)
KEY CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS (More key characters are being added as the project develops and different storylines for these characters are being added. There are an almost limitless number of highly memorable characters all at least partially based on real life people. Quite honestly, there is enough going on in this story to justify not only a terrific film but also an excellent long running HBO series.)
FEMALE LEAD-TAMAR Late 20’s-Early 30’s. Cute. Adorable. Jewish. Short. Petite. Wears jeans that are just a tad too big and t-shirts. Wears Snoopy underwear. Smart beyond words, can express emotion flawlessly with her eyes and face. Has been through more hell than most people can imagine, yet has emerged with a terrific personality. Can be happy one moment, instantly turn sad, angry. Cries incessantly. Pouts. Very vocal when she wants something. An absolute joy to be around for our male lead. Cute beyond words-think a slightly more nerdy Jewish version of Drew Barrymore from 50 First Dates.
THIS IS ADDITIONAL CHARACTER DESCRIPTION INFORMATION FOR OUR FEMALE LEAD. THIS IS EXCERPTED FROM AN E-MAIL SENT TO BOTH TOM HANKS AND PATRICK WARBURTON (David Puddy, Elaine’s boyfriend on Seinfeld.)
The role of the girl is going to be hard to cast. She must display a wide range of emotions and physical activity. She must be able to deliver lightning fast humorous exchanges, laugh, and be personable and talkative. She must also be able to turn instantly sad and angry, jump off from the couch in a second flat, run down a small hallway, cry incessantly, pout, hang up the pay phone in anger and basically act like a 30 year old woman who has been emotionally arrested as a 12 year old because she has been so abused and unfairly treated by her parents. And she must be able to do all this on a set that will probably be less than 1,000 square feet and resemble the actual century old cottage like Cherokee unit at Las Encinas. To say nothing of being able to cut herself under extreme emotional duress. And like me, the audience must see her as completely adorable, beautiful, intelligent and personable. She is a very easy person to love, even though she is not a classic beauty or model type. She must also fit the basic physical characteristics-short, petite, possibly Jewish. This is very likely going to be an Academy Award winning role.
(I should mention what happened since it's been awhile since I wrote this and new people are now looking at it. Tom Hanks did in fact receive my E-Mails and sent one in return promising to take a look at what then was the early stages of this project. But the #&@!*!#@ MySpace powers that be deleted my page-they do this often as they have one set of rules for Tila Tequila and other questionable personalities who must have teams working to add friends to her list around the clock and another for people like me. So I never heard from Tom Hanks again and finding him again at MySpace would take a tremendous amount of work, just like it did the first time. I never heard from Patrick Warburton and am not sure if he runs that as a fan page or what. At one time, I was interested in Patrick playing a certain key role and I think he could still do it if he were interested but the role is nothing like David Puddy (Elaine's boyfriend on Seinfeld) or his animated character in Bee Movie.)
MALE LEAD-RODNEY Mid 30’s. Not good looking, not ugly. Highly intelligent, a match for intelligence with our female lead. A bit eccentric, but not a total oddball. Can rattle off useless or useful information on any subject effortlessly and endlessly. Extremely picky eater. Wears sandals almost everywhere. Friendly, personable, usually cheerful. Helpful, caring. Smart ass at times. Smitten with our female lead mentally and emotionally, yet is willing to give her as much space as she thinks she needs at any given moment. When it comes to our female lead, can’t do enough to try to please her although such efforts are often fruitless.
NURSE-Could be anywhere from 33-45, sort of an ageless appearance. Earth mother type, yet beautiful. Reddish, brownish long hair, medium build. The type of person everybody loves. Will bring in her David Bowie CD’s to play for the patients. Interacts with the patients in innovative and cheerful ways. Smokes. Always cheerful and friendly, never superficial. In control of herself and others at all times. But yet is not always who she appears to be. Would like this role to be played by Marcia Cross of Desperate Housewives.
PSYCHIATRIST-Late 40’s-Early 50’s. Very fat, not obese. Walks like a duck. Arrogant and uncaring to a degree. Rather humorless. Educated, but not exceedingly bright. Sometimes talks normally, sometimes a little slow, but is almost always more distant than friendly. Can be condescending.
PSYCHO GUY-Walks around sprouting obvious nonsense only he believes. Is obsessed with hell and has probably read every book ever written on the subject. 30’s, average looking, slim to medium build, tries very hard to be friendly.
SCHIZOPHRENIC GUY-40’s. Talks to himself and others in mumbling utter nonsense, but is sometimes coherent. Secretly brilliant, he is an Oxford graduate. Always wears old brown stocking caps, long straggly red beard, never shaves, bathes rarely. Often stands in the corner just looking at others and/or half laughing for no reason. Friend of Paul McCartney.
FEMALE LINEBACKER-40’s. Could be a charter member of the Ugly Ladies of Wrestling. Throws temper tantrums if not allowed to watch her channel or listen to her horrible music (particularly Sinead O’Connor.) Physically built like an ox. Gets angry and does things like breaks television sets by throwing them around. Throws chairs. Heavy duty drug addict, both street and prescription with a deep faith in God. Exceedingly stupid and belligerent.
EX CRACK ADDICT TURNED BUSINESSMAN-Late 30’s-Early 40’s. Genuinely nice and intelligent guy, today he has a successful internet business. Almost a body builder type. Has completely turned his life around, is married to a great woman and has a child. Often keeps to himself and just silently observes the surrounding madness. Not really a psychiatric patient, but is lucky and clever enough to substitute a short stay in a psychiatric hospital as prison for a serious offense.
There will be many other character types added as the project develops further of all types of personalities, ages and body types so feel free to submit at any time.
THIS HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BE AN AMAZING PROJECT.
When you get to the part about me moving next door to the girls mother, please understand that my housing search stretched from Malibu to Pasadena. From a mathematical and statistical point of view landing next door to this girls mother is like winning the lottery. After all, there are millions of housing units in Southern California. My relationship with this girl is filled with the improbable and nearly impossible. Too many examples to list here and what is here are elements of the storyline we need to make known to the general public for the purposes of preproduction and prerelease publicity. In the actual film you will see other examples of the forces of the universe guiding this chain of events.
THIS PROJECT IS EXTREMELY UNIQUE, WORTHY OF STAR TREATMENT, A HUGE BUDGET AND ALL THE MARKETING SKILLS OF HOLLYWOOD’S FINEST STUDIOS AND PRODUCTION COMPANIES KEY PERSONNEL.
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING IS TRUE.
HERE IS THE REASON YOU ARE EVEN READING THIS.
I met a girl (Late 20’s-Early 30’s, cute, adorable, short, petite, Jewish) in a Pasadena hospital on February 17, 2006. Like two galaxies on a head on collision course, neither one of us were aware of the others presence-and yet it was both of our entire lives were building to.
HERE ARE THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THAT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE MEETING IN OUTLINE FORM:
TIMELINE-LEAD FEMALE CHARACTER-TAMAR-JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2006
Girl after a series of setbacks and depressive events overdoses on 500 Tylenol PM tablets, to which she is allergic, in a serious suicide attempt.
Stumbles around an art store feeling the effects of the Tylenol PM.
Somehow manages to drive herself to a psychiatric hospital.
Once there her condition is noted and she is immediately transported to a medical hospital where she spends nearly a week in the ICU.
She is released to the psychiatric hospital and an out of hospital competency hearing is scheduled. She loses the hearing. Running away from the hospital attendant, she boards a city bus and rides it to the end of the line, somewhere in one of the worst neighborhoods of South Los Angeles. She has four dollars to her name, no credit cards and no ID. She buys a pack of razor blades, locks herself inside a fast food restaurant restroom and severely cuts herself. She’s found and taken to a South Los Angeles hospital where she is treated medically and psychologically. Somehow after a few days she talks her way back to the original Pasadena psychiatric hospital.
TIMELINE-MALE LEAD CHARACTER (REAL LIFE-RODNEY PETERSON) FEBRUARY 2006
On February 1, after being away from Los Angeles for about four years, I board an Amtrak train from Minneapolis which is eventually headed for Union Station. My intent is to check into the Pasadena hospital I will eventually meet the female in. Instead, I am sent to a hospital in Tustin for a few days before being sent to a really awful hospital in Orange County where I act up, am arrested, and sent to another almost as equally awful one. I talk my way out of there and am sent to a hospital in Van Nuys where I spend several days and it’s not pleasant at all. Finally, I discharge from there and attempt to go back to the Pasadena hospital. There are no beds available, so I have the option of going to county hospital or my idea, which is to wait in a nearby hotel on Colorado Boulevard. I call every day for an available bed in one of the hospitals several locked units. Four days later, a bed finally becomes available and I begin the hours long process of actually checking in.
THE CHARACTERS MEET FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME
Male character walks into six bed cottage like building that serves as a locked unit on the hospitals wooded grounds. The mental health attendant introduces him briefly to the other patients, including the female character who he immediately takes special notice of as she sits on the couch.
Moments later the female enters the males assigned room and the male is completely transfixed and awestruck. Crouching on the floor by his just opened suitcase, he instantly realizes that not only is the woman a beautiful creature to him, but that also she is significant beyond words in his life. The female is bleeding from self inflicted razor cuts on her arms and neck, but the male is so awestruck he doesn’t even notice. He can’t stop looking directly at her face, mouth frozen wide open in wonder, eyes amazed wide open and not a muscle moving, maybe not even blinking eyes. This continues for the longest time until finally the mental health attendant, who has been going through the males belongings, notices the female bleeding. He immediately leaves with the girl to tend to her wounds and call an ambulance.
The next time the male sees the female she has her backside to him and is being lifted off the floor by paramedics. She is not wearing any underwear and her ass shows as her jeans fall halfway to the floor as she resists efforts to be picked up by the paramedics.
The female is transported to a medical hospital emergency room where she receives nearly one hundred stitches to her arms and is treated for less serious cuts to her throat.
That is just the beginning. The middle of the story is rich with events that will make an incredible story, but here’s what happens next:
RODNEY and TAMAR, together in a six bed unit in the psychiatric hospital for a month begin a friendship that soon turns into more than just a friendship. They share life stories together, laugh, talk and have lightning fast exchanges of witty banter. Rodney sees Tamar at her best and worst day in and day out as Tamar, uncertain of her future, is given to frequent crying fits and emotional outbursts.
After Tamar is discharged, Rodney remains in the hospital and forms relationships both extremely positive and extremely negative with other patients. He discovers by accident he has a mutual interest with another girl, DORI, in an activity not considered exactly normal and has a contest with her that continues for three solid hours while each are laughing their butts off. He witnesses other extremely funny events and exceedingly strange behavior exhibited by the other patients of all kinds. He keeps his relationship with Tamar alive by calling her every day and making an effort to be funny, creative and kind to the girl he absolutely adores who has so much pain in her life.
Once discharged, Rodney pursues a relationship with Tamar but she is resistant out of the hospital as abuse is all she knows and Rodney goes out of his way to be kind. September 1, 2006 turns out to be a very important day in the calendar of Rodney Peterson as fate once again steps in when Rodney searches all over Southern California for a new apartment and ends up right next door to Tamar’s childhood home, where her extremely abusive mother still lives today through no effort of his own. This after answering a Craigs List ad the previous day he almost didn’t answer and didn’t even believe was real because the ads grammar was terrible. Without a car, Rodney has enlisted the help of Tamar in the move and both are shocked to see his new home. Tamar is angry as this seems like a sick joke to her, and Rodney has no idea what she is angry about. Instant chaos ensues as neither one knows what’s going on. Rodney is shocked for days and Tamar probably doesn’t believe Rodney didn’t plan the whole thing. But Rodney has proof that he didn’t plan it and what happened was the hand of the universe stepping in to keep the relationship between the two alive and more mysterious than ever before.
NOTE: For those of you wondering why I obviously no longer live at that address, the primary reason is that things Tamar had said in the hospital led me to believe with good reason she had been the victim of attempted murder years ago at the hands of her parents. No statute of limitations exists on this crime and consequently I presented it to the Beverly Hills Police as a real life case of attempted murder. Since that meant I had in fact accused my next door neighbors of attempted murder, it wasn't the best idea or the most comfortable situation to stay at that address (also the roommate situation, while not bad in any hugely significant way, was however far less than ideal but that was very secondary to the feelings I had about living next door to people I had just reported for attempted murder.)
Copyright 2006 Rodney Peterson
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Although a lot of the events we have discussed thus far are very serious, the truth is there will be tons of laughter in this film as well. The film abounds with humor and both Tamar and I have tremendously funny, wicked, quick senses of humor-in fact we often had lightning fire humorous exchanges, which she usually won by coming up with the most creative answer or statement. And there are too many funny events involving other characters to even make it to the final edit without sacrificing some really great stuff. We have another One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest on our hands, but different with both a relationship storyline and more than just a touch of the supernatural.
A SCENE NEVER BEFORE SEEN IN THE CINEMA
A secret only a few key actors, key personnel and I will know about will be a scene never before seen in the theater.
Here are some hints to get you intrigued:
It will be widely imitated by the general public, as Meg Ryan’s restaurant orgasm scene is in When Harry Met Sally.
In real life, it went on for three solid hours between a girl (DORI) and I and Dori happens to be BY FAR the most talented person I’ve ever met regarding this particular activity.
Both Dori and I laughed ourselves silly nearly the entire three hours-we simply could not stop laughing.
It happened in a public area (the TV room.)
It was witnessed by staff and patients alike.
No one objected or said nary a word-they just left the room.
It is NOT sexual in nature.
It does NOT involve a bodily function.
Are you intrigued? That secret will be a large part of the prerelease publicity that is unique to this film alone. This film has the type of potential to generate preproduction/prerelease publicity that will set the ears and mouths of America abuzz.
We have a true life story and a never before filmed scene that warrant national attention as a feature news item (and now headline news as well) (this part refers to this story being referred to the Beverly Hills Police as a real life case of attempted murder for good reason-however, real evidence is lacking. There is however enough material from that case to create a second unrelated film project using characters based on some of the characters in this story (but they will be different.)
Personally, I wish to present all my story, publicity and marketing ideas at this point to an agent I would like to sign with at a top agency. For the film, I envision all the resources of one of Hollywood’s finest production companies and best studios. It is my wish to work with a top notch creative team and create a creative, financial and critical winner. It wasn’t my intention to be touched by the Forces of the Universe and have a story to tell and a film to make upon returning to Southern California-it just happened.
Rodney Peterson
310-498-6394
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
Copyright 2006 Rodney Peterson
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PLEASE NOTE: The following first written theatrical trailer script below contains elements of the original Cutting Confessions script which included the real life Beverly Hills attempted murder case. It is included in this treatment as an illustration of just how many angles the story contains and possibilities for related stories. All story elements of Cutting Confessions and all related projects are copyright Rodney Peterson.
CUTTING CONFESSIONS THE FIRST THEATRICAL TRAILER
OPENS WITH
STUDIO LOGO/PRODUCTION COMPANY LOGOS
INT.-NIGHT-LAS ENCINAS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL
ALBERT
(Unpacking Rodney’s suitcase) Rollerblades? So you’re an excellent rollerblader?
RODNEY
(Almost embarrassingly grinning and smiling as he says this) No, in fact I broke my…
RODNEY’s sentence is stopped midstream as TAMAR enters the room, standing. RODNEY is completely transfixed and mesmerized by TAMAR and sits crouched on the floor just staring directly at her face for a few seconds.
ALBERT
Oh, hey Tamar. What’s that on your neck? Blood?
CUT TO
VOICEOVER AND SUPERIMPOSED ACROSS THE SCREEN IN HUGE LETTERS THE FOLLOWING:
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF GOD TOLD YOU TO SAVE THE LIFE OF THE WOMAN YOU LOVE
(remains on screen for a few seconds)
NEXT SERIES OF SUPERIMPOSED HUGE LETTERS AND NEXT VOICEOVER WORDS:
BUT TO DO SO YOU HAD TO DESTROY THE ONLY FAMILY SHE’S EVER KNOWN
CUT TO
INT.-DAY-BEVERLY HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT DETECTIVES DIVISION
DETECTIVE ELWELL sits at his desk. Behind him is a HUGE SIGN. It is the LOGO for the BEVERLY HILLS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
DETECTIVE ELWELL
Attempted murder?
RODNEY
Attempted murder.
CUT TO
VOICEOVER AND SUPERIMPOSED ACROSS THE SCREEN IN HUGE LETTERS THE FOLLOWING:
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR CRIMES CAUGHT UP WITH YOU 20 YEARS LATER
CUT TO
EXT.-DAY-OUTSIDE BEVERLY HILLS KINKO’S
(MALE VILLAIN (FATHER) CHARACTER NAME) sits in drivers seat of black BMW sedan addressing WIFE (MOTHER) in the passengers seat.
MALE VILLAIN (FATHER)
(Shakes his finger or makes other hand gestures as appropriate for effect) You want him to figure out what we really did? You get in there and delete those files!
CUT TO
INT.-DAY-BEVERLY HILLS APARTMENT
RODNEY addresses his ex-roommate ASHWANNI. ASHWANNI is dressed in Hindu ceremonial garb and face paint, kneeling on the floor by his personal altar where RODNEY kneels beside him.
RODNEY
It’s not an accident I was sent here, is it?
ASHWANNI
(Still kneeling, points to sky): No, it was all because of Him.
CUT TO
EXT.-DAY-THE BEAUTIFUL HOSPITAL GROUNDS AT LAS ENCINAS
ROBIN and RODNEY are sitting outdoors on a bench at the hospital, framed by beautiful flowers, palm trees and other trees and bushes.)
ROBIN
Are you sure you’re doing the right thing?
RODNEY
God, I hope so.
CUT TO
VOICEOVER AND SUPERIMPOSED IN HUGE LETTERS ACROSS THE SCREEN THE FOLLOWING:
A TRUE STORY
CUT TO
EXT.-DAY-SANTA MONICA THIRD STREET PROMENADE
RODNEY is holding a crudely written colorful sign over his head on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade. It reads: ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL IN BEVERLY HILLS.
RODNEY
(Yelling to Passersby) DATELINE BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA! MEDIA CIRCUS FORTHCOMING! ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL! I AM THE KEY WITNESS!
PASSERSBY either ignore RODNEY or stare at him as if he is crazy.
A MAN ON A BICYCLE rides by and nearly clips RODNEY.
MAN ON BICYCLE
GET OUT OF THE STREET, YOU MORON!
CUT TO
EXT.-DAY-SANTA MONICA THIRD STREET PROMENADE-A PRETTY BLONDE NEWS REPORTER is trying to get rid of RODNEY
PRETTY BLONDE NEWS REPORTER
Sir, NO ONE is going to cover your story until those charges are filed! Now quit wasting my time!
CUT TO
VOICEOVER AND SUPERIMPOSED ACROSS THE SCREEN IN HUGE LETTERS THE FOLLOWING:
SOMETIMES GOD’S JUSTICE TAKES 20 YEARS
CUT TO
INT.-DAY-SHERMAN OAKS APARTMENT
A DRUG DEALER addresses a frightened and confused TAMAR as she sits on a couch in her friend MICHELLE’S apartment.
DRUG DEALER
That entire bag of cocaine is missing! Where is it, Tamar? (pulls gun from his jacket.)
TAMAR looks frightened and confused.
CUT TO
EXT.-DAY-SHERMAN OAKS TREE LINED STREET
SEMI-CLOSE UP of RODNEY
RODNEY
(Yelling, Looks as if he has been running or is otherwise nearly out of breath) TAMAR!!!
DRAMATIC CHORDS STRIKE
VOICEOVER AND SUPERIMPOSED IN HUGE LETTERS THE FOLLOWING:
CUTTING CONFESSIONS
Cutting Confessions in huge letters with logo that will include some letters shaped as razor blades and/or scissors. Another idea for the film logo is to make the word CUTTING appear hard with razor blades, scissors, etc. and the word CONFESSIONS appear soft.
CUT TO
INT.-NIGHT-LOS ANGELES
RODNEY and TAMAR sitting in upscale coffee shop or restaurant, for example The Standard on Sunset Boulevard, across from each other.
TAMAR
(Happily and Excitedly) Let’s do it! Let’s go to Las Vegas!
CUT TO
VOICEOVER AND SUPERIMPOSED ACROSS THE SCREEN IN HUGE LETTERS THE FOLLOWING:
CHRISTMAS
END TRAILER 1
COPYRIGHT 2007 RODNEY PETERSON
310-498-6394
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
CUTTING CONFESSIONS THE OFFICIAL SCRIPTED FILM OPENING
STUDIO LOGOS
MAJOR CREDITS APPEAR SILENTLY AND QUICKLY WITHOUT FANFARE
NO MUSIC
CAMERA FOCUSES ON A BEAUTIFUL WORK OF ART FROM BIRD’S EYE VIEW AND SLOWLY PANS ACROSS ARTWORK. WE SEE A YOUNG, BEAUTIFUL PAIR OF FEMALE ARTIST HANDS AT WORK WITH OIL PENCILS CONTINUING TO CREATE THE ASTOUNDING WORK OF ART. THE HANDS ARE FLAWLESS, PERFECTLY MANICURED AND NOT A DROP OF NAIL POLISH OUT OF PLACE. THE CAMERA SLOWLY PANS UP THE GIRL’S ARM WHICH REVEALS A MYRIAD OF DEEP AND UGLY SCARS THAT NEVER SEEM TO END. AFTER ABOUT TEN SECONDS THE WORDS CUTTING CONFESSIONS APPEAR ON SCREEN. THE CAMERA CONTINUES TO PAN UP THE ARM UNTIL IT’S POINT OF VIEW SLOWLY REACHES HER FACE AND WE SEE A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG GIRL WITH INTENSE EYES CONCENTRATING ON HER ART.
(There is much more action after that initial opening as the camera pans around the apartment and we see this beautiful, creative, talented artist is clearly living in disarray and from there we go into the actions which prove this-it’s shortened here for the purpose of this synopsis as the first part is the most visually stunning and emotionally a roller coaster (that’s why no music is needed.) Also this could be the weekly opening of a HBO series.
COPYRIGHT RODNEY PETERSON
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
310-498-6394
Below is the visually and emotionally spectacular film ending which came to me within seconds as the girl was telling me something and I imagined this as a result. Whatever else this girl is, she is a real life muse to me in addition to everything else.
NEW EMOTIONALLY AND VISUALLY SPECTACULAR FILM ENDING
INT.-NIGHT-THE VENETIAN CASINO LAS VEGAS OUTSIDE AN ART GALLERY
RODNEY has done himself in by doing his job too well. He’s got TAMAR well on the way to being a sought after artist, but along the way she has fallen in love with one of the artists he introduced her to and she seems to have found her true destiny with that man.
Inside THE VENETIAN, TAMAR and RODNEY are saying their goodbyes. TAMAR will be leaving for Italy in the morning with her new artist friend and RODNEY must be back in his Los Angeles office by at least the next afternoon.
RODNEY
I’m going to miss you terribly but I am so happy that you have finally found the happiness you deserve. I have never felt so happy as the feeling I have knowing you are finally happy.
TAMAR
It’s been a wild ride but thanks to you I have finally learned what love is. At least I think I know what love is, and I can finally be happy with someone. I know you wish it was you and I’m sorry.
RODNEY
It’s your happiness that matters most of all.
RODNEY bends down and kisses TAMAR on the cheek, wiping away a small tear from her face. TAMAR smiles, they hug briefly. TAMAR turns and slowly walks away. The camera focuses on RODNEY’s face as she goes further away and he’s smiling and looking confident as if he is watching a dear friend or a sister leave he knows he won’t be seeing for a long time.
Then RODNEY’s face grows sad for a brief moment.
RODNEY
(Almost a mutter but loud enough to be clearly audible) Fuck.
CUT TO
INT.-NIGHT-TREASURE ISLAND CASINO LAS VEGAS
TAMAR is in her wedding dress as she and her boyfriend are walking through the TREASURE ISLAND CASINO and the boyfriend is all smiles and TAMAR has a smile on, too, but not as wide a grin as her boyfriend.
TAMAR’S BOYFRIEND
Roulette! Let’s play!
TAMAR agrees and they sit down as the ball from the current game bounces around then falls in the hole.
ROULETTE DEALER
Eleven! Winner, Odd!
TAMAR’S BOYFRIEND
Yo, Eleven! Lucky Eleven! Craps! That’s my game! I’ve got a feeling about this! I got to get in on this.
(To Roulette Dealer) Buying in! $5,000 straight up on seventeen!
(To Tamar) My sisters birthday and my lucky number.
ROULETTE DEALER
$5,000 buy in on seventeen! Good luck, Sir!
The ROULETTE DEALER goes through the motions of watching the other players line up their bets, all business, as the PIT BOSS, standing behind the Roulette Dealer, can’t help but look a bit nervous at the sight of $5,000 riding on a single spin of the wheel. He’s seen it a million times before but he knows what it means-a $175,000 payout if seventeen hits.
The other players place their bets and the ROULETTE DEALER spins the wheel. TAMAR’s BOYFRIEND and TAMAR watch with an excited look on their faces.
The ball bounces around before bouncing into it’s chosen number slot.
ROULETTE DEALER
Seventeen, Odd! Winner! House pays out!
(He then turns to TAMAR’s BOYFRIEND and TAMAR) Congratulations, Sir and Miss! Well played!
The PIT BOSS looks just a little sick, almost sighs, then regains his composure.
We see the camera follow TAMAR’s point of view as she looks at the lit up display board which is showing the sequence of winning numbers. The camera briefly focuses on eleven, then seventeen and we cut back to TAMAR sitting at the roulette table staring at the board and obviously thinking about something.
TAMAR
(Talking to herself) Eleven…Seventeen. Eleven…Seventeen.
A single tear rolls down TAMAR’s face. Suddenly TAMAR jumps up from the table and breaks into a run, her wedding dress awkwardly flailing around as the little Jewish girl breaks into a stride.
TAMAR’S BOYFRIEND
(Shocked) TAMAR, WE WON $175,000! TAMAR, COME BACK! COME BACK! TAMAR!
Behind the Roulette Table a brief shot of the PIT BOSS mouth wide open, looking shocked. He’s NEVER seen anything like this.
ROULETTE DEALER
(Shouts after her) MISS, YOUR PURSE!
The camera follows TAMAR as she runs across the crowded casino floor, sometimes having to fight for room as her 95 pound frame encounters people bigger than her and she must push them aside with all her might. TAMAR bumps into a waitress, who then spills a tray of drinks all over her wedding dress. For TAMAR it’s like water off a ducks back-she hardly notices-but keeps running across the casino floor as fast as she can to where the TRAM STATION is that goes to THE MIRAGE, where RODNEY will shortly be checking out.
When she reaches the TRAM STATION, she fights for space as she did in the casino but now she’s outdoors trying to get on the TRAM. Now things really get messy with her hair and the wedding dress. It’s a rare Las Vegas evening and a THUNDERSTORM is in full bloom along with MODERATE RAIN. The THUNDER occasionally crackles and LIGHTNING lights up the sky as she fights her way into the TRAM. By the second, her wedding dress and hair are becoming more and more soggy. Finally, she enters THE TRAM and the crowded TRAM begins it’s short journey to THE MIRAGE.
As the TRAM travels, TAMAR is clearly nervous and almost slightly jumping around. Her eyes are intense and as the camera gazes into her face a MONTAGE of SHORT SHOTS of TAMAR and RODNEY appear. She is clearly deep in thought and the camera cuts back and forth to her worried and hopeful face between each short flashback shot as the SHORT SHOTS appear on screen: The first time they met when TAMAR walked into RODNEY’s room, TAMAR and RODNEY playing Scattergories and laughing, the very first time RODNEY said Well…I love you…you’re a very easy person to love (as he says this in flashback, the words are clearly visible by reading RODNEY’s lips, but there is no audio of the words), etc., etc. We will figure out exactly what shots to place here in addition to those already listed as we do the real post production and editing that needs to be done here.
Finally THE TRAM pulls into THE MIRAGE TRAM STATION and once again TAMAR breaks into a run in a sort of repeat of what happened at TREASURE ISLAND until she reaches the ELEVATOR.
Sopping wet, TAMAR enters the CROWDED ELEVATOR and once again the little Jewish girl in her soaking wet wedding dress and wet hair looks out of place and some of the other elevator passengers stare. She pushes a floor number. We don’t see what number it is. (We don’t want to overdo this plot device by putting RODNEY in Room 1117, but we want the audience to wonder where his room is, knowing some of them will be thinking 1117.)
The ELEVATOR opens and TAMAR, sopping wet hair and wedding dress, runs down the hall to where RODNEY’s room is. She knocks frantically on the door, rings the buzzer repeatedly and nervously repeats this for about 30-35 seconds. There is no answer. TAMAR slowly stops jumping up and down and a look of sadness comes over her face. She starts to cry uncontrollably as she slowly walks down the hall.
After about 10 seconds of this, the door finally opens and RODNEY is standing in a MIRAGE bathrobe. TAMAR runs to him and with her hair and wedding dress sopping wet and makeup (slightly, we want her to look a bit disheveled, but still attractive) running she gazes up into his eyes, just inches away from RODNEY.
TAMAR
(Gazing up into RODNEY’s EYES) Don’t say a word, just hold me.
RODNEY pulls TAMAR to his chest, holds her tight and slowly strokes her sopping wet hair.
This continues for a few seconds and RODNEY leads TAMAR by the hand and they slowly enter his suite where we see RODNEY’s suitcase almost packed and ready to leave the suite.
TAMAR
I have so much to tell you. I’ve always loved you, but I could never admit it to myself. I wanted to so much, but I just couldn’t.
TAMAR cries for a few seconds, then regains her composure as RODNEY looks lovingly into her eyes.
TAMAR
My parents didn’t abuse me as badly as you thought. They just could never bring themselves to tell you, with you being angry with them for what they did to me and all. A lot of it was me. I never felt safe. Never. Not for a minute. I mean, they did abuse me but so much of it was me. Never safe. Never. So I started cutting myself because somehow the feeling of the razor and the warm blood as it began to flow made me feel satisfied. And I could be less afraid. And the more I did it, the more it felt right. And I couldn’t stop. I only felt safe if I was cutting myself or maybe trying to kill myself. I mean, it’s weird, but it’s true.
TAMAR stops for a brief second, wipes a tear away from her face.
TAMAR
But then I met you. And I didn’t really feel anything for you at first. I just kind of tolerated you because I could tell you liked me and at least you would never hit me or yell at me or kick me or anything. Then things got really weird and I didn’t know what to do. I started to feel safe around you and I couldn’t understand it. Me. Safe. Without cutting myself or trying to kill myself. It scared me silly, so I wanted to shut you out. That shouldn’t be happening. I didn’t deserve that kind of love. Or to feel safe. But it couldn’t be denied, and all I could do was just keep shutting you out and hope you would get the message and go away. But you never did. You stayed with me through everything, no matter if I was wonderful or a total bitch. Now I really felt scared and I just wanted to find someone-anyone-anyone but you so I would never have to deal with those feelings. But tonight, I finally realized it when it was almost too late. It was you. I loved you too almost from the second we met but I was lying to myself always.
A VERY LOUD CLAP OF THUNDER IS HEARD, LIGHTNING LIGHTS UP THE SUITE AND EVERYTHING IS AGLOW IN LIGHTNING FOR A FEW SECONDS.
RODNEY
Hear that? It can’t compare to the sound of my heart beating when I’m with you.
TAMAR smiles and looks up into RODNEY’s EYES. She smiles again.
TAMAR
(Slowly, softly and sensuously) Ditto.
TAMAR AND RODNEY HUG AND KISS, RODNEY STROKING TAMAR’s HAIR AS THE CAMERA SLOWLY PANS AWAY FROM THE COUPLE AND TOWARD THE OPEN BALCONY WINDOW, WHERE THE LIGHTS OF LAS VEGAS SHINE ALL AGLOW AND THUNDER AND LIGHTNING (Not constant, we don’t want to overdo it so we need to be somewhat sparing regarding the thunder and lightning in this sequence) COMBINE WITH THE LIGHTS OF LAS VEGAS IN A VISUALLY STUNNING LONG CAMERA SHOT AS THE CAMERA SLOWLY PANS THE LAS VEGAS SKYLINE.
JOHN LENNON STARTS TO SING LEAD ON THE 1967 BEATLES CLASSIC “ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE”
“All you need is love/Love/Love is all you need” etc. etc. as long as we need to get to the next shot in our night time pan of the Las Vegas Lights, both natural (Lightning) and manmade (Neon)
THE CAMERA EVENTUALLY GETS TO THE LARGE NEON SIGN THAT IS THE PRIMARY OUTDOOR ADVERTISING SIGN FOR THE CIRQUE DE SOLEIL/BEATLES SHOW “LOVE” AND STAYS WITH THAT SIGN ABOUT FIVE SECONDS.
WE WILL NEED A TOP NOTCH AUDIO ENGINEER FOR THIS NEXT BRIEF AUDIO SEQUENCE AS THE MAJOR PART OF THE FILM ENDS: WE WILL SOMEHOW USE THE SOUND OF THUNDER TO VERY SEAMLESSLY AND VERY, VERY WAY COOL TRANSITION FROM THE BEATLES “ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE” TO THE SONG THAT WILL RUN OVER THE FINAL CREDITS.
FINAL CREDITS SONG: A NEWLY RECORDED FULL LENGTH VERSION OF “ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE” BY JAMES BLUNT.
END CUTTING CONFESSIONS
COPYRIGHT 2007 RODNEY PETERSON
Rodney Peterson
310-498-6394
cuttingconfessionsfilm@gmail.com
ALL STORY ELEMENTS, SCRIPTED SCENES AND OTHER ASSOCIATED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF CUTTING CONFESSIONS AND RELATED PROJECTS ARE COPYRIGHT RODNEY PETERSON AND ARE REGISTERED WITH THE WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA.
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