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  <detail>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On one hand, I was taking night classes in screenwriting and never quite fitting my scripts into the plot-point-on-page-25 structure. On the other hand, I kept getting email on how to make $694,031 on the Internet in 30 days by giving products away. And I wasn&amp;rsquo;t getting any sleep. So I decided to make my own movies and show Hollywood how it&amp;rsquo;s done. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Having big stars, big explosions and plot points in the right places wasn&amp;#39;t keeping the studios afloat the way it used to. So I turned to making boring movies, as is my natural inclination, only more so. For my first movie, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI1hePBC1bs&quot;&gt;WebcamMurder.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, about life casters who live in front of webcams 24/7, I kept telling the actors, &amp;ldquo;Take longer pauses&amp;hellip;no, longer.&amp;rdquo; For my second movie, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Z38Eo31sU&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt; Sublime Crime: A Subliminal Mystery&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I did away with that pesky plot thing and made the whole thing subliminal, leaving it to the audience to fill in the action with their dreams. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am very proud to have invented my own genre, &lt;em&gt;Film Sleepy&lt;/em&gt;, which takes up where classics like &lt;strong&gt;Gigli&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Heaven&amp;rsquo;s Gate&lt;/strong&gt; left off. Today&amp;rsquo;s world is too stressful for conflict, suspense or thrills. What we really need is more sleep, and my products provide it. Not that audiences realize it yet. I&amp;rsquo;m going to keep making film sleepies till they do&amp;hellip;and I&amp;rsquo;m keeping my subscriptions to Quick Internet Riches emails just in case. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</detail>
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