J. Gabriel Ware
School
Wayne County Community College District (Detroit), Western Michigan University.
Expertise
Movies, TV, Theater, All Things NBA, WWE Attitude Era
- J. Gabriel's first feature screenplay, "Jakayla," won Third Prize in the CineStory Feature Retreat and Fellowship Contest (2021).
- "Jakayla also placed in the Austin Film Festival (2021) and as a finalist in the Screencraft Fellowship (2021).
- His pilot, "Close To Home," became an official selection in the "Best of Stage 32" LookBook (2022).
Experience
J. Gabriel Ware is a journalist-screenwriter who worked for ABC News where he worked on the news assignment desk, wrote articles for Abcnews.go.com and field produced for Good Morning America and World News Tonight with David Muir. His writing has also appeared in YES! Magazine and Theatermania.
Education
J. Gabriel minored in criminal justice and majored in journalism at Western Michigan University. He earned a master's in communication from the same university and focused on mass communication and media effects.
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Stories By J. Gabriel Ware
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Even though the best Jackie Chan movies are the action-comedy ones, his earlier films were much different.
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Amy Madigan plays the loyal, if impatient, girlfriend Chanice Kobolowski in the John Hughes comedy Uncle Buck.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger was risked life and limb for his action movies, and had a brush with death on the set of The 6th Day.
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Mike Nichols' Working Girl is one of the most emblematic films of the 1980s, but due to a real life Wall Street scandal, it almost didn't get made.
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The late, great Sidney Lumet directed Find Me Guilty, a comedy-drama in which Vin Diesel plays real-life gangster Giacomo "Jackie" DiNorscio.
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Jet Li is one of the finest martial artist stars to ever live. 2006's Fearless was meant to be his final film, but an on set injury almost took him out sooner.
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'I got beat to s**t on that movie.'
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Be Water bridges the disconnect between who Bruce Lee was and how he was perceived, especially by Hollywood.
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Was Jenny in Forrest Gump a tragic figure? Robin Wright doesn't think so.
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In recent years, the actor has become a crusader for mental health.
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Al Pacino wanted Mykelti Williamson to play Sergeant Bobby Drucker in Heat thanks to one of the actor's previous — not Academy acknowledged — performances.
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Men in Black took a neuralyzer to the original drafts of the film.
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Thankfully it seems the only related Boo was a character in the movie.
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The cast in Predator really knew their way around the jungle, thanks to some real-life military training.
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If the director could go back in time, he'd change three things about the sequel.
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It's hard to imagine Men in Black without Will Smith in the role of Agent Jay — but the part almost went to another '90s up-and-comer.
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Spontaneity on set led to a high-risk environment.
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Jean-Claude Van Damme was originally cast to play the alien in 1987's Predator — but alas, it was not meant to be.
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Tarantino offered a nudge.
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Chuck Norris was told to put on some weight, and he went about it in a rather cheesy way.
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Samuel L. Jackson will do what Samuel L. Jackson wants to do.
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'That's how you're gonna beat 'em, Butch.'
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Thankfully he ended up seizing the day.
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Samuel L. Jackson and Quentin Tarantino are old friends, but there's one subject they've disagreed on more than once: hair.
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The beloved actor was game to help the child actors on set.
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Robin Williams accidentally broke Robert De Niro's nose while filming Awakenings — but the injury was a blessing in disguise.
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Watching your mom and dad act out kinky scenes on the big screen is one of the perils of being a Hollywood child.