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| Max Miller was Britain’s top comedian from the 1930’s through the 1950’s. Known as “the Cheeky Chappy” he sang bawdy songs and performed stand-up comedy to delighted, drunken Brits. After his death in 1963 he spent his childhood in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. where he developed a deep connection to the post-punk music scene and anti-corporate community movements. He left high school after tenth grade to enter Simon’s Rock College in western Massachusetts where he was taught the skills that transformed him from an obnoxious adolescent into a downright dangerous adult. He moved to Los Angeles in 1994 to pursue a screenwriting career and eventually own a dog. Mr. Miller at first optioned several of his feature screenplays to people who thought they were producers. Through that process he learned that saying "I love it" is free and real love means someone is willing to risk something for the material. In 2003 he was hired to write the urban actioner "GAME OVER". Sure, it's no Citizen Kane, but it was a good experience in low budget, independent filmmaking. Some of his scripts have made it pretty far along in screenplay competitions, but writing for competition and writing for a sale are two different things entirely. He's done writer-for-hire work, treatments for unproduced work, and original spec material. He now has two dogs: DeSoto and Zilla. When not working on new screenplay material, Max can be found training for triathlon, writing about his triathlon training, helping others train for triathlon, looking for parking, or changing his outgoing phone message. His writing and his life share the theme of antiestablishmentarianism: rebelling against authority that seeks conformity. Mr. Miller and his wife currently live in Culver City where the memorial site of Harold Lloyd's studio is marked by a car dealership. |
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| Mr. Miller is an alumni of Simon's Rock College of Bard (now called Bard College at Simon's Rock) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Goldsmith's College, London, United Kingdom; and the Communication Arts Program in Montgomery County, Maryland. |
