As an academic, Dr. Tomasulo has published two scholarly film books, written over 100 peer-reviewed academic articles, and delivered more than 200 conference papers and guest lectures around the globe.
As an academic, Dr. Tomasulo has published two scholarly film books, written over 100 peer-reviewed academic articles, and delivered more than 200 conference papers and guest lectures around the globe. His writing has earned major awards from the Society for Cinema Studies and the University Film & Video Association, among other such distinctions. The former Editor of both Journal of Film & Video and Cinema Journal, Dr. T has also won numerous teaching awards from universities and professional organizations.
Along the way, he has also written several screenplays and teleplays for movies and episodic TV shows, and currently provides services as a Screenplay Consultant, aka “Script Doctor.”
He is most proud of the accomplishments of his hundreds of students who have gone on to highly successful and rewarding careers in the motion picture and television fields, including several who were nominated for – or won! – Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and many other honors and professional accomplishments.
This short scene is the beginning of a feature-length courtroom dramedy whose unique premise is that the defendant in a capital case refuses to hire an attorney simply because she is innocent - and trusts that the justice system would not convict an innocent person. She also does not want to spend her life savings on a lawyer!
This scene follows recent genius college grad Frank Ricci into a low-life pool room, where he goes to observe the low-life denizens of that den of iniquity AND earn a living as a poll hustler until someone values his magna cum laude Philosophy B.A. enough to hire him. The scene is filled with comic characters and situations, including one hustler whose checks are "better than his cash."
This scene introduces the protagonist, Frank Ricci, a genius college grad who has managed to escape the death trap of Bensonhurst, but returns periodically to hang out on the stoop with his old neighborhood buddies (and one gal). They engage in fun badinage as they drink beer and smoke weed.
In the late 1960s, a bunch of twenty-somethings find themselves trapped in the Jewish-Italian neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
They hang out on stoops, drinking beer and smoking weed, while engaging in witty badinage to pass the dull time away.
One of them, an aspiring novelist, collects material for his autobiographical book by hanging out at the local pool hall, a den of iniquity and low-class characters that provide numerous examples of absurd behavior and jokes.
A comic satire of the legal system in which a woman chooses to defend herself on a murder charge because she is not guilty and trusts that the court would not convict someone who is completely innocent.
She also does not want to spend her life savings on an attorney!
A beloved professor has fun with his final class session of the academic year, especially given that most of the class is composed of graduating seniors.
GPA: 3.9
Overall GPA: 3.8. Minor in Art History. Minor in Chemistry.
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