Rex Bromfield
Biography
I write serious comedy about things that aren't normally considered to be funny. Before I started writing short stories and novels, I worked in the film industry as a writer/director. My very first feature film, a dark comedy called LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, was Dan Aykroyd's first film. It was invited to FILMEX in Los Angeles in 1977 by The American Film Institute and released in the U.S. by Atlantic Releasing and Paramount Home Video.
I directed some other movies, too, including MELANIE starring Glynnis O'Connor, Don Johnson and Paul Sorvino, and CAFE ROMEO starring Jonathan Crombie and Catherine Mary Stewart. I also wrote and directed a black comedy called HOME IS WHERE THE HART IS starring Leslie Nielsen, Martin Mull and Valri Bromfield (sister).
In the 90s I ran a software company. We won the Newmedia Invision Award, Newsweek’s Editor’s Choice Award and Parenting Magazine’s Magic Software Award for our musical painting app for preschoolers called "Paint ‘N’ Play".
I directed many episodes of television for children. Now I tell seriously strange and funny stories for adults because I think we need them.
During my years in the movie business I learned that you cannot put out good ideas, using millions of dollars of someone else's money without protracted, and largely absurd, struggles. I think it was Stanley Kubrick who once said "Making movies is like trying to produce fine music in a furniture factory." I finally walked away from that life of glitter and glamour: getting up at 3:00 AM to shoot my own screenplay in some filthy freezing warehouse under the absentee supervision of a self-medicating executive producer. I elected, instead, to lock myself up to rearrange electrons in such a way that my ideas could go out into the universe where they may be of some more immediate use to real people.
Here's my official quote: "I don't think we're going to solve some of the problems of society until we can laugh and are no longer frightened by them." Here's another one: "Hate is fear. Fear is ignorance. Stupidity is insisting on one's own ignorance."
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Books
Interloper Part III
by Rex Bromfield
Price: Free! 5810 words.
Published on January 7, 2012. Fiction.
Delia Ma had made the most important discovery in any field of science—ever. Problem was, how does a fifteen-year-old high school student, stuck way out on a moon of Saturn, get word of what she has found to the important researchers on Earth, over a billion kilometers away?
Phony Collateral
by Rex Bromfield
Price: Free! 23490 words.
Published on December 27, 2011. Screenplays.
Phoney Collateral is a poignant and darkly funny tale of family values and a close-knit rural community in conflict with a local small-time crime figure. Drawn together to combat the common threat, the family and towns folk are forced to ridiculous extremes to restore their way of life. This is a movie that I could never get made because, in hard times, investors don't like to
take chances.
Interloper part II
by Rex Bromfield
Price: Free! 5210 words.
Published on November 12, 2011. Fiction.
Faster than light neutrinos, a wild experiment to test a theory of time travel and the solution to a long forgotten mystery.
Interloper part 1
by Rex Bromfield
Price: Free! 4540 words.
Published on November 5, 2011. Fiction.
You've heard of Bathroom Humor. Well this is Bathroom, Sci Fi, Mystery.
The Great Song
by Rex Bromfield
Price: Free! 5030 words.
Published on October 22, 2011. Fiction.
A sweet, little, epic story of intergalactic war.
Paid in Plates
by Rex Bromfield
Price: Free! 8810 words.
Published on October 15, 2011. Nonfiction.
A short autobiographical story about me and the mob.
Paolo was a wanted man in hiding. He was wanted by mafia families in at least two American cities. He was running for his life. What I couldn't figure out was why he wanted me to write a movie script about it.
Fat Pat
by Rex Bromfield
Price: Free! 4320 words.
Published on February 13, 2011. Fiction.
School starts tomorrow so my big sister Patricia has locked herself in her room and isn’t coming out because she says she’s fat.
Nora-9
by Rex Bromfield
Price: $2.99 USD. 125000 words.
Published on April 30, 2009. Fiction.
A young man's diary, received mysteriously, from a desperate future, tells of a reckless quest to find a strange and beautiful young woman, wielding bizarre and deadly powers--a woman who may be capable of saving or destroying humankind.
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- Looking for Mr. Right
on Oct. 31, 2011
First porn I've gotten through without getting bored. Funny as hell too. Nice work.
Rex Bromfield