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    Coyote In A Graveyard: The 1984 Screenplay
    Coyote In A Graveyard: The 1984 Screenplay
    Coyote In A Graveyard: The 1984 Screenplay
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    Coyote In A Graveyard: The 1984 Screenplay

    By The Hippy Coyote

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    Thumper is a very unique patient of a mental hospital. He's not a criminal, and not violent, but very disruptive as he attempts to make the world a better place -- in his own bizarre ways.

    Written to take place in the sixties or early seventies when "free love" and drugs were a way of life, Elaine becomes a runaway when her parents try to curb her drug use and her boyfriend invites other women into his bedroom. As a teenage runaway she is scooped up by a hospital that is profiting from government subsidies per each additional patient.

    Thumper and Elaine develop a romantic relationship in the hospital but the love affair becomes complicated when Elaine and the Head Nurse have a romantic lesbian love affair.

    Thumper is kept under control with experimental dream therapy drugs to keep him away from Elaine, by the Head Nurse, similar to Nurse Cratchet of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

    Without drugs, Thumper hallucinates for self-defense. What makes his visions exciting, is that other people can see them also as they are transformed into the character's of Thumper's visions.

    This music movie ROCK OPERA was originally a series of music videos that were performed on many Los Angeles stages and various nightclubs like Madame Wong's from 1985 to 1989. Michael J. Fox and director Steven Spielberg gave compliments to the script and showed interest in the rock opera that was rewritten into the Coyote In A Graveyard feature film screenplay for New World Pictures. Although Michael J. Fox asked for the starring role, the movie has yet to be produced.

    This ebook is the FINAL 3rd DRAFT of 1985 made for New World Pictures, but halted in preproduction when they ceased movie production that year to specialize in television dramas only.

    The soundtrack for the movie was recorded by the original cast musicians: The Coyote on bass, guitars, and vocals (now known as The Hippy Coyote of American Zen), Bruce Candelaria on drums, and Scott Hitchings on keyboards. Lori Aguilar sung the parts of Elaine's mother.

    Enjoy the screenplay destined to be a feature film rock opera music movie... someday.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Del Connor
    Release dateFeb 18, 2012
    ISBN9781575513300
    Coyote In A Graveyard: The 1984 Screenplay
    Author

    The Hippy Coyote

    During the 1980s while performing the rock opera, COYOTE IN A GRAVEYARD, Richard Del Connor become nicknamed by the newspapers, and other performing rock bands such as The Cult and Michael J. Fox as, "The Coyote.""The Coyote" became the rock'n'roll name of Richard Connor until 2007 when he upgraded to "The Hippy Coyote" of American Zen, America's First Buddhist Rock BandTM.From 1990 to 2008, Coyote performed and worked and recorded albums under several names including Rory G, Tom Calder, Steve Hixon, and as a recording engineer, Don DelaVega. Those album, book and movie credits can all be attributed to Richard Del Connor.In 2007, The Coyote has decided to simplify his life and only operate under only three names:THE HIPPY COYOTE:bassist, drummer, guitarist (acoustic, slide, and electric), flutist, singer, songwriter, composer, lyricist, poet, screenplay writer, and performer of American Zen, or performing solo as "The Hippy Coyote," T.H.C. (sometimes billed in newspapers as, "THC Live...").RICHARD DEL CONNOR:record producer, movie producer, script and screenplay writer, poet, editor, publisher, founder CEO of Tai Chi Youth, president of Shaolin Records, music publisher of Shaolin Music, owner of Shaolin Pictures, and American philosopher.BUDDHA ZHEN:Zhen Shen-Lang (last name first) "Spirit Wolf of Truth," pipa, percussion, Chinese drumming, flutist, Kung Fu Shifu and Tai Chi Master, author of Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi, and Zen Buddhist manuals, lecturer, poet, calligrapher, composer, life coach, and Zen Master.When Richard Del Connor is The Hippy Coyote, he enjoys the freedoms and independence of not being a businessman, wearing a tie or being school teacher. Fans have been posting music videos from his live performances in Los Angeles in 2009 and 2010.

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      Coyote In A Graveyard - The Hippy Coyote

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      Coyote In A Graveyard

      Rock Opera Screenplay

      by

      Richard Del Connor

      The Hippy Coyote

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      COYOTE IN A GRAVEYARD

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      Coyote In A Graveyard

      The 1984 Screenplay

      A rock opera

      love story

      in a mental hospital

      and adjacent cemetery.

      Written by

      Richard Del Connor

      The Hippy Coyote

      Revised Final Draft

      September 24, 2011

      Shaolin Pictures

      www.ShaolinPictures.com

      818-723-2769

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      Raves for Richard Del Connor's

      Coyote In A Graveyard

      "I had a bunch of compliments back in the 80's. I'll try to get some fresh ones.

      --- Coyote

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      ALSO BY RICHARD DEL CONNOR

      4 DECADES OF LOVE

      THE ANTICHRIST

      AUTUMN FLAVOURS

      BUDDHA KUNG FU STUDENT MANUAL

      COMBAT TAIJI

      CONNOR BLACK HOLE BUBBLE THEORY

      HISTORY OF ZEN FROM A TO Z

      HUMAN VALUES FOR SUCCESS IN FAMILY AND BUSINESS

      KUNG FU COWBOY ORIGINAL DRAFT

      LOVE, ALWAYS & FOREVER!

      MASONIC KUNG FU - BOOK 1

      THE POTATOE VALENTINE & OTHER LOVE POEMS

      RAINBOW IN THE SHADE

      SEASON OF FOURS

      SHAOLIN GONGFU INITIATE

      SHAOLIN KUNG FU BEGINNER

      SHAOLIN KUNG FU INTERMEDIATE

      SHAOLIN KUNG FU STAFF BASICS

      SID'S PLACE

      SPRING FEVERS

      SUMMER FOREVERS

      TAI CHI BEGINNER

      TAI CHI INTERMEDIATE

      TAO OF TAOISM

      UTAH - PHASE 1

      WINTER FLOWERS

      ZEN SPIRIT BOOK

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      Coyote In A Graveyard

      The 1984 Screenplay

      A musical story

      performed as a rock opera

      by The Rich

      1985-1989

      Written and Composed

      by

      The Hippy Coyote

      by Richard Del Connor, The Coyote (2007 became The Hippy Coyote)

      (American Poet-Photographer-Podcaster)

      Founder, The Hippy Coyote, of The Rich and American Zen rock bands.

      Author of Season Of Fours, Sid's Place, and Masonic Kung Fu Book 1

      ShaolinCommunications.com

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      Copyright Page

      Coyote In A Graveyard - The 1984 Screenplay

      by Richard Del Connor, The Hippy Coyote

      Published by Shaolin Communications

      818-723-2769

      publisher@shaolinCOMMUNICATIONS.com

      © Copyright 2012 shaolinMUSIC.com All rights reserved. ASCAP

      This book, or parts of this book, may not be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, Shaolin Communications.

      Edited and typeset by Richard Del Connor.

      First edition released June 12, 2012, based upon Final Script Sep. 24, 2011.

      Smashwords Edition

      This SCREENPLAY was first released in 1984 to dozens of Hollywood producers and production companies.

      THIS screenplay release in 2012, is FIRST public release of COYOTE IN A GRAVEYARD.

      Author: Richard Del Connor

      Musician name: 1984 - 2006 = The Coyote; 2007 - 2010 = The Hippy Coyote

      Richard D. Connor graduated the UCLA Motion Picture Program June 12, 1988. The feature film, Coyote In A Graveyard, was in preproduction when Coyote moved to Utah, November 1991

      The complete soundtrack, Coyote In A Graveyard, was recorded in 1989.

      The cassingle single, It's Your Shadow, from the soundtrack was released in 1989 by Shaolin Records to college radios nationwide in the U.S.A.

      SCREENPLAY / POETRY: Lyrics

      First Edition Release June 2012

      8 7 6 5 4 3 2

      Smashwords ebook ISBN: 978-1-57551-330-0

      For updates about our movies and videos visit:

      ShaolinPictures.com

      Table of Contents

      Front Cover

      Screenplay Title

      Title Page

      Raves

      Also by Richard Del Connor, The Hipy Coyote

      Inside Cover

      Copyright Page

      Table of Contents

      Dedication

      About the Author

      Preface

      Script Formatting

      Songs of Coyote In A Graveyard

      Screenplay PAGE 1

      Screenplay PAGE 10

      Screenplat PAGE 20

      Screenplay PAGE 30

      Screenplay PAGE 40

      Screenplay PAGE 50

      Screenplay PAGE 60

      Screenplay PAGE 70

      Screenplay PAGE 80

      Screenplay PAGE 90

      Screenplay PAGE 100

      Screenplay PAGE 110

      Cassette Single (1989 cassingle) It's Your Shadow

      Original 1985 Screenplay for New World Pictures

      Kung Fu Cowboy

      Back Cover

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      Dedicated

      to my wonderful years in the UCLA Extension

      Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences program,

      and to all the friends I made there (teachers and students).

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      About the Author:

      Richard Del Connor has been publishing his stories, poetry, and photography since elementary school.

      Richard worked in the Hollywood movie business from 1985 to 1991 in various capacities including key grip, electrician, lighting director, cinematographer, and assistant art director.

      Richard has been composing rock operas since 1975's Underground rock opera. The next rock opera, In Violence, combined together to become the 1984 novel, Sid's Place, released in 2008.

      Currently, Coyote is completing the 2nd album of his LEVEL 4 albums with the Buddhist rock band, American Zen. Coyote is about to record flute solos to finish this album titled, LEVEL 4 = Kung Fu Cowboy PART 2: 3rd Degree Master Mason.

      In 1984 Richard founded Shaolin Records

      www.ShaolinRECORDS.com

      In 1985 Richard began UCLA Motion Picture Certificate Program

      www.ShaolinCOMMUNICATIONS.com

      In 1988 Richard graduated the UCLA Motion Picture Program

      www.ShaolinPICTURES.com

      In 2008 Richard moves to Montrose, California teaching Kung Fu, Tai Chi and guitar

      www.HippyCoyote.com

      In 2009 Richard becomes 3rd Degree Master Mason and discovers Masonic Kung Fu

      www.RichardDelConnor.com

      In 2010 Richard releases American Zen album, LEVEL 4 = King Solomon's Temple

      www.LEVEL4KungFuCowboy.com

      In 2011 Richard writes first epic poems, Rainbow In The Shade and The AntiChrist

      www.CoyotePoetry.com

      In 2012 Richard releases 2nd novel, Masonic Kung Fu, and Tai Chi Beginner

      www.ZenPup.com

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      Preface

      I just re-graduated UCLA this week. I am applying for government grants with National Institute of Health. They have lots of grants that involve interns, graduates, professors, and students. I thought I'd call UCLA and made sure they had my name spelt correctly. In the 1980s and 1990s I used the name, Richard O'Connor.

      It turned out they had me registered as a student of UCLA. But not listed me as graduated.

      The next week I got some very friendly phone calls. They were arranging for a new Certificate to be sent to me with official sealed transcripts of my school records.

      My certificate was from the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Program of 1988. Now, the program has a different name. Back then you had to choose between the Television or Motion Picture degree. I chose Motion Pictures. I was an amateur photographer. I wanted to make movies...

      I shot rock concerts for magazines and newspapers during 1980s. UCLA improved my photography as I became a professional cinematographer. I wanted to be a director, but all my fellow students wanted me for their photographer. I worked a couple semesters for UCLA Extension as a hired cameraman for the Master Acting and Master Director courses. These classes require a video cameraman to shoot the scenes, then they'd review and improve. Jiri Weiss said I was the best handheld cameraman he'd ever worked with. I knew it was because of my Shaolin Kung Fu. I'd been studying for six years and my legs were already very strong and solid.

      I'd like to write more screenplays and television scripts. I have lessons to teach and stories to tell. This story represents several important themes:

      1. Family Life: Teenager rebels and runs away

      2. Homelessness: Runaways, alcoholics, teenagers

      3. Mental Hospitals: Need funding, prisons

      4. Love: Romantic love triangle with Head Nurse

      5. Drugs: Are drugs helping or harming the patient

      6. Freedom of Mind: Who is sane? and who needs to change their mind

      7. Imagination: To share a wild imagination is a wild experience

      8. Magic: This movie crosses into fantasy for the fun of it

      I and Blaine Beveridge worked very hard on this production. We did all the script breakdowns and almost secured enough financing to produce it ourselves under my Shaolin Pictures banner.

      Enjoy my romantic rock opera from the early 1980s. It was inspired by a serious heartbreak with Lori Wilhelm, then living out of my van on Santa Monica beach for a year was really nice. I have lonely but fond memories of that beautiful period, with my cat, Celise.

      The coyote in the title was from watching a coyote in the Veteran's Cemetery, in West L.A. Each sundown, he'd be out there catching mice between the headstones. Then one day--he was gone.

      My romantic heartbreak, coupled with the loss of this wild friend I shared many sunsets with--deepened my sorrow into the song, Coyote In A Graveyard. The other songs of the rock opera were being written already, based upon my life experiences. Although I was living out of my van, I had a Union Carpenter Job at LAX for over a

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