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The screenplay, CATHEDRAL CITY is written by an Englishman who immigrated to the US at age 23 to attend UCLA film school which he never applied to, but just showed up to the first day of classes. He picked the courses taught by those from whom he wished to learn thus creating his own non-matriculating curriculum. The professors appreciated his chutzpah and happily obliged him.

Paul soon found himself writing pilots for TV shows and spec scripts for such shows as “The Larry Sanders Show” and “Mad About You”. He briefly returned to London when an old colleague needed help on some scripts for a British comedy revue that was a showcase for a TV series.

Returning to the US, Paul went to work for Rick Newman the founder of the world famous Catch a Rising Star comedy clubs where he met his wife and partner, Diana.

Having not written in almost ten years, one night at a party Paul met famed Phoenix investigative journalist, Mike Watkiss. To Paul's amazement he then heard of Mike's cause-celebre; his relentless pursuit of the renegade FLDS sect in Colorado City.

He told of how the young girls and also the boys were relentlessly abused by a lifestyle not of their choosing where underage girls were forced into marriages so that each new wife elevated the status of the much older husband. He told of how young boys were routinely run out of town, as the Church elders feared that the new generation would replace them. And how the local police were even part of the whole sordid culture and did nothing to help the women and kids who cried out for help as the Church amassed millions of dollars in fraudulent activities and
racketeering.

Paul was aghast that something such as this could go on in the richest and supposedly!most liberated!country in the world. It sounded like something out of the feudal Middle East. But the most burning question remained: Why did the authorities, who knew all about what was going on, do nothing to stop it, decade after decade, even after reporters such as Mike put it in front of their faces again and again

Shocked, Paul decided that night to write about this abomination but from the point of view of a possible explanation as to why these children were allowed to suffer for generations by those sworn to protect them at the very same time as our young men and women in uniform were losing their lives in not one but two other countries, trying to liberate those citizens so far away from our own 20 backyard.

It is a story of political corruption, racketeering, a booming state and the systematic abuse of the innocent. The story is "Cathedral City".