Mike Langworthy
The Forecaster
Denver, CO, United States
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Past articles by Mike:
The View From Away: Characters, and character, make Maine hard to leave
By the time you read this, Carol, Elizabeth, our dogs Ruby and Blackie, and I will be well on the road to our new home in Denver, Colorado. We are leaving almost six years to the day since we trekked from Los Angeles to Portland, so, sadly, this will be my last regular column. I hope to ch... → Read More
The View From Away: West Coast West Side story
A talented screenwriter I know, a native Mainer, is gearing up to move to Los Angeles. It makes sense. She has done as much as she can in Maine. Her films have been nominated for awards. She has begun to acquire cult status as a blogger about her favorite shows. Now she wants to take her career t... → Read More
The View From Away: Absence from L.A. makes the heart grow colder
I am halfway through my most recent stint of TV consulting (“Instant Mom,” Thursdays on Nick At Nite; tell your friends). The part I thought would be hard has been easy, and the part I thought would be easy has been hard. The big worry, being back in a writers’ room, has gone sm... → Read More
The View From Away: Flying the friendly skies isn't what it used to be
Not too long ago I found myself watching a Poverty Row movie from the 1940s, the kind where a microphone occasionally strays into the shot, and the actors just roll their eyes and keep talking, knowing there won’t be a second take. But it took place on a long plane flight. For all it... → Read More
The View From Away: USM is open for business (poets need not apply)
Administrators at the University of Southern Maine have proposed deep budget cuts skewed heavily toward the arts and humanities, and announced their vision for rebranding USM as a “metropolitan university.” This is an emerging paradigm in which a school develops programs for an... → Read More
The View From Away: There's famous, and then there's ...
An old friend emailed me recently to say she had found the following on an Internet search engine: “Mike Langworthy is a famous person.” That was the entire entry. She thought it would be a great title for a performance piece. Apparently she thinks I’m with the Joffrey Ba... → Read More
The View From Away: Here's what I hate about winter
I grew up in a cold-weather state, so I can take the cold of winter. Unless it gets down around zero for a couple of weeks, and then it’s, “You know what’s nice, Carol? Ecuador.” “No.” “Let me finish. 'Equator' is right in the name, practica... → Read More
The View From Away: It's always warm at the national coffee emporium chain
First, let me apologize for the recent weather. I am pretty sure I caused it by running off to California for three weeks. You know the old saying, “Leave Maine in December, winter will remember.” It’s like “Fatal Instinct.” Winter is Glenn Close, and I’... → Read More
The View From Away: There's a vacancy at the 'Hotel California'
After several weeks of consulting on a couple of television series in California, it's good to be back in Maine for Christmas. The consulting itself was tremendous. One of television’s best-known directors, Jamie Widdoes (you may remember him as Hoover, the fraternity president in &l... → Read More