A Pig Is A Pig…Why Expect Changes?

Alan J. Schwarz
6 min readJun 4, 2021

There were a lot of rumours circulating about Derrick James. It was said that he had been to counseling to help with his anger and racism issues. He had disappeared from public view for months and then reappeared as a supposedly changed man.

Jake Weintraub was nervous about the meeting at his agent’s office. Marty Shmeitz had always been upfront and straight and the fact he needed to meet with him immediately (his exact words were ‘’drop everything and get to my fuckin’ office fast) meant something was going on.

When Jake arrived he was immediately escorted into a boardroom. Sitting there was Marty and two women he didn’t recognize. Marty stood up and closed the door. ‘’Jake, I want to introduce you to Susan Rice and Wendy Moody, they are the President and Executive Producers at Win Win Studios. The studio is a subsidiary of the LOMEIKEN Group. They have optioned the script you wrote ‘’Toronto LockDown’’

Jake had never heard of Win Win Studios, but was delighted that his script had been sold. Marty was pacing around ‘’The thing is the studio wants to have Derrick James play the lead. The thing is nobody wants to do media with the guy. Even if he has seen the light and reformed. That being said, as the writer of the script, Susan and Wendy want you to join with Derrik to promote the movie.’’

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Alan J. Schwarz

Alan Schwarz loves life. He is the founder of JAMS Productions, a television production company based in Toronto . His passion is writing.