Barry Bowe's Blog, page 87
August 24, 2017
Meet Detective Lawson
Hello. My name’s Reggie Lawson. I’m a detective with the Philadelphia Police Department, Twelfth District. Six years on the force, two years as a detective. I was Lew Kaminski’s last resort. He got shot down at the Nineteenth District, and he got shot down with the F.B.I. Yes, his daughter’s missing. But there’s no evidence […]
August 23, 2017
Black Detective
The next role I’m trying to fill is the black detective. A member of Philly P.D., 12th District. Here’s the way the black detective makes his first appearance, late in Episode 1 – Where’s Beth? And there’s Lew sitting across the desk from a black man, dark-skinned. Detective Reggie Lawson, twenty-eight. Six years on the […]
Meet Stan Kovac
Hello. My name’s Stan Kovac. You met my wife Pearl the other day. She calls me Old Man, and she’s right. I’m seventy years old. I am an old man, which means I don’t give a fuck about a lot of things that used to bother me. But more about that later. We have a […]
Tough Decision
Casting Stan Kovac not easy. Tough decision. First, narrowed my field to four: Jerry Stiller Eugene Levy Peter Boyle Charles Grodin Even considered Carroll O’Connor – but he immediately comes across as Archie Bunker and would contaminate the story. Love Jerry Stiller & Eugene Levy, but they’re too Jewish for the part. Stan Kovac is […]
August 21, 2017
Meet Pearl Kovac
Hello. My name’s Pearl Kovac. I’m Izabel’s mother, Which makes me her husband’s mother-in-law, but more about that later. I’m also Beth’s grandmother. You haven’t met Beth yet and, hate to say it, but you may never meet her. She’s missing. I believe she ran away from home – and it’s all his fault. His […]
August 18, 2017
Meet Billy Cain
My name’s Billy. I’m twenty-two, and I belong to a motorcycle club. The Overlords, but more about them later. Come from a good Catholic family, mass every Sunday. Catholic school from first grade to twelfth. Pretty smart, if I say so myself. Never got in trouble. Not at school, not at home. Never even got […]
Meet Izabel Kaminski
Hello. My name is Izabel Kaminski. You met my husband Lewis yesterday. We’ve been married for twenty-two years, still very much in love. But we don’t always agree about everything. More about that later. We returned home from a long-delayed honeymoon. But we had difficulty entering the house. Lewis had to ram his shoulder against […]
August 17, 2017
Meet Lew Kaminski
Hey. My name’s Lew Kaminski, but my wife calls me Charlie Bronson. Not in a complimentary way, but more about that later. We returned home from a trip to Puerto Rico. A honeymoon really. Because we never got to take a honeymoon when we got married. That was back in 1948. You see, I got […]
August 14, 2017
Purple Wings
Got a text message from an outlaw biker late Sunday night. Just finished reading “Blue Wings” & told me I made a mistake. He was correct. So I went back & made wholesale corrections: Changed title Changed cover Updated text Republished My apologies to everyone who purchased “Blue Wings” – Episode 2 is now “Purple […]
