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    Always Another Mountain, Living With Cystic Fibrosis
    Always Another Mountain, Living With Cystic Fibrosis
    Always Another Mountain, Living With Cystic Fibrosis
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    Always Another Mountain, Living With Cystic Fibrosis

    By Benjamin Easterday, Sharidan Williams-Sotelo, Randy Jon Morgan and

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    David Foster learned at a young age he was different and when the medical world was ready to throw him away he found salvation and love of his life in climbing the Sierra Nevada Mountain trails in California. Packed with light humor and easy conversations that entertain; Always Another Mountain is a Dedication and Last Wish project of David's whimsical and entertaining life. The book is set up with many of the Scene Descriptions capitalization of key words, objects and actions we use in film, to help you the reader hold the image of the scene as you read the dialog around it. An amazing story for its feats and loo into a life lived to the fullest. Thank you for your support of the fight against CYSTIC FIBROSIS.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 3, 2018
    ISBN9781387717019
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      Always Another Mountain, Living With Cystic Fibrosis - Benjamin Easterday

      Always Another Mountain, Living With Cystic Fibrosis

      Always Another Mountain Living with Cystic Fibrosis

      Adapted to book by

      Benjamin Easterday

      Written by

      Randy Jon Morgan, Rick Tuber,

      Sharidan Williams-Sotelo, David Foster

      camera-EV-DiscEd

      April 2018

      Copyright © 2018 by EV PRODUCTIONS INC

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      First Printing: 2018

      ISBN #: 978-1-387-71701-9

      EV Productions INC

      West Hollywood CA 90069

      alwaysanothermountain

      Dedication

      There is never enough attention available for the debilitating situations our friends and family’s struggle with every day.  Cystic Fibrosis is one of those diseases.   Davids last wish was to share his story.  My pledge is taking this, the Original Script and publishing it as a readable experience.  CF found its way into my own family as well and November 29, 1991 we lost Eric Turner; he was 16 ½. 

      This publication side of the production is our pledge to Davids wishes as well Eric and too all that are afflicted with CF.  Along with the writers, we hope this story gives you strength to challenge yourself.  Through the good and the bad days; like any challenge, there will Always be Another Mountain.

      Benjamin Easterday

      EV PRODUCTIONS INC

      On behalf of David Foster and the AAM project, thank you.  $1 from the sale of this purchase goes to CYSTIC FIBROSIS the remainder is for the development of the Motion Picture Production.

      ABOUT

      David Foster, afflicted with the debilitating lung disorder Cystic Fibrosis, had a passion for life and a love of the outdoors, which transcended his physical limitations. He worked as an Assistant Film Editor for Spelling Productions, where he met Randy Jon Morgan and Rick Tuber. Foster wanted to leave this world better than he found it, and wanted his life to serve as an inspiration not only for those suffering from CF, but for all of us.

      Shortly before his deteriorating condition forced him to leave the film industry and move to Tucson, Arizona, Foster invited Randy Jon Morgan to collaborate with him on a bio-script.  At the same time, Rick Tuber also thought that David’s mountain-climbing triumphs and battle with the crippling disease would make a good film.  Master storyteller Sharidan Williams-Sotelo was asked to join in the writing and help bring it all together as they began collaborating on the screenplay.  The process began with conducting taped interviews with David, his mother, Ona, Uncle Jack (his favorite hiking companion), and David’s brother Kevin; also a victim of the same disease. Also included in the interview series were several members of the medical community at the University of Tucson Medical Center Cystic Fibrosis Unit, where David was such a regular patient.

      CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

      DAVID AND FAMILY

      DAVID FOSTER Male, 20’s, 30’s, though there are elements from various stages of his life.  Scraggly, long blond hair, scruffy beard.  Kinda Jesus, kinda Zonker, with a gentel, yet intense look in his blue eyes.  He is based on the real-life person of the same name, saddled with the debilitating disease of the lungs, Cystic Fibrosis.  A skilled guitar player, he is a hopeless romantic, a rock and roller, a practical joker, and demonstratively chivalrous with the ladies.  Light-hearted and optimistic, despite his illness.   His main passion is climbing mountains and experiencing nature in all its majestic grandeur, despite the severe strain on his devastated body.  Determined to not allow his physical limitations keep him from living life to the fullest.  His other great interest is photography, and he loves taking nature photos, posing for self-photos, and poking his lens into the faces of friends and family.  He will be the third successful double lung transplant recipient in the history of the state of Arizona.

      UNCLE JACK Male, 50’s, 60’s.  Friendly round face, a full head of silver hair.  Slightly paunchy, but strong and hardy.  David’s best friend and most avid supporter.  He is the one who introduced young David to the wilderness and photography.  He is David’s main hiking partner, and is as determined as David to help him make the most of whatever time David has in this world.

      LESA FOSTER Female, 50’s-60’s.  David’s mother.  Blond, though graying, yet still reflecting the striking natural beauty of her younger years.  Nervous and careworn from the heavy burden of raising two sons with the terrible affliction of Cystic Fibrosis, despite have serious health problems of her own with bipolar disorder, giving vent to broad and sudden mood swings, from near euphoric highs to the deepest depths of depression.

      GENE FOSTER Male, 50’s.  David’s father.  An accomplished flamenco and classical guitarist, as well as a talented film editor.  Driven to an early death from alcoholism, brought on by a deep sense of personal guilt and depression over the terrible illness he has bequeathed to his sons.

      KEVIN FOSTER Male, a few years younger than David, though he looks considerably older -- emaciated, unkempt and tattooed.  A free spirit in his own right, he has found his refuge from the ravages of his illness in the world of hard living, drug abuse and alcohol. 

      UNIVERSITY OF TUCSON CYSTIC FIBROSIS WARD

      DOCTOR DOUG MANNERS Male, 30’s.  Good looking; serious about his chosen career working with cystic fibrosis patients.  Loves and even admires David, though David’s stubborn nature and wild activities in defiance of his illness are a thorn in Manners’ side.

      DOCTOR STEPHEN COPELAND Male, 50’s, silver hair.  Dignified and highly intelligent.  Chief surgeon at University of Tucson Medical Center, takes a fatherly interest in the patients under his care. 

      NURSE GLENDA Female, 40’s.  Sort of the CF Ward ‘mom’, she keeps a close eye on her patients, taking care of them with a firm, but loving, gentle hand.

      NURSE-AID CINDY Female, 20’s.  Sexy young Nurses Aid, with whom David likes to playfully flirt, though she is more than his match in their battle of wits.

      PEDRO Male, 30’s.  An orderly on the CF Ward, he is a friend to all the patients under his care.

      IRENE Female, mid-twenties.  CF patient, and David’s main love interest.  Attractive Pat Benatar type; sexy, in spite of her terrible illness.  Though she is too weak to be an active participant in David’s wild adventures, they share a spiritual bond and hope that transcends their illness.  Like David, she is also a dreamer.  Irene is also an artist, expressing herself in elaborate collages that serve as an inspiration and comfort to her fellow patients.  With a bit of a mischievous bent of her own, she engages in ‘practical joke wars’ with David up in the Tucson Medical Center CF Ward.

      KAYLA Female, late 20’s.  Pretty, though pale and sickly.  David has a deep attraction to her -- if she weren’t already married with children.

      RUSTY MACDONALD Male, 20’s.  A big, jovial, red-headed Irishman.  One of David’s fellow CF patients, he is the first double-lung transplant recipient in the history of Arizona.

      CHRIS CONZIONE Male, early 20’s.  Handsome Italian-American with wavy black hair, charming personality.

      TOM POLAND Male, late teens.  Canadian.  Tall, blond, blue eyes, with boy-next-door good looks and boyish charm.  He will be the second successful double-lung transplant patient in Arizona.

      JOSPEH RIGARD Male, 7 years old.  Intelligent, introspective

      ‘old soul’, African American CF patient.

      THE AARON SPELLING COMPANY, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

      MARK Male, 30’s.  A kindly, Neil Young look-alike.  Frenzied department head of Spelling Post Production where David works in his years in Hollywood, California.

      TIM Male, 20’s.  An apprentice editor in the Spelling operation, with a David Schwimmer from Friends haircut and an attitude.

      SUE Female, 20’s.  Attractive blond assistant in the Spelling company.  Has an eye for David, and defends and genuinely cares for him.

      WENDY Female, 30’s.  Cute, friendly and vivacious and impish film librarian for Spelling.

      RICK Male, 30’s.  Assistant editor at Spelling.  Flirty, generally quiet observer.  Baseball player and fan.  Ambitious, would like to write a book about David and his inspirational life and fight to overcome cystic fibrosis.

      INTRODUCTION

      David has since departed from this world, leaving behind the memories and joy he shared. His story is full of ambition and will of life. David was born in Los Angeles in 1967 and raised there by his parents till just before his teenage years; his mother having lived with the stress of the disease and constant guilt sought medical help and turned her children over to her parents to help care for them while she found herself.  David’s father had a stroke early on in Davids life.  His grandfather would often take David out on short hikes and short trips to Arizona to see his Uncle Jack, also an

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