Tax forms and Cannes research

 Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

Today was a full and fulfilling day, I was happy to be busy from start to end.  I came in early to help with a musical segment, and the band was rehearsing when I arrived.  The lead singer was Rita Wilson (Tom Hank's wife), and she was accompanied by two guitarists, a bassist, drummer, pianist (who was working two keyboards simultaneously) and another singer.  My job was to have them fill out some tax forms before they performed.  I recognized a few forms because my buddy back in Cincinnati had worked at Jackson Hewitt, but learning what to have them fill out wasn't the hard part as it turned out; making sure each form was complete was the bigger problem.  After three attempts at turning the forms in, only to find out some parts were missing or we had the wrong type of form, we were able to get everything in order.

I also finished up doing some research for the 2012 Cannes film festival.  We had a fact sheet from 2010 which included general info about Cannes and the festival, and info about that festival.  I needed to update the outdated info, and add any other interesting facts and figures to the sheet.  To me, one of the more interesting facts I found was that the city of Cannes spends 600,000+ Euros a year to reclaim 25,000 square meters worth of sand from the sea, which makes sense considering how tourism is integral to the city's economy.

Otherwise, I finished up outlining the scenes for Act II of my spec script, and I planned to finish the rest of the scenes tomorrow.