Read Former Utah Jazz Center Mark Eaton's Screenplay: Riding the Bench

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Read Former Utah Jazz Center Mark Eaton’s Screenplay: Riding the Bench


Everyone believes they have a screenplay in them. Your mom, your unemployed uncle, and anyone else who has ever watched a movie. Including 7'4 former Utah Jazz Center Mark Eaton. But most of these screenplays never see the light of day, which is fortunate. Not so with the first eight pages of Eaton's opus, Riding the Bench. You need to read this script, it will change your life.

Here's an excerpt from the first page:

Appearing from nowhere Boswell walks up to Mark.

Boswell: Nice job out there.
Mark: Thanks.
Boswell: I don't think we've formally met. I'm Coach Boswell, the athletic director here at Westminster. Can I talk to you for a second?
Mark: About what?

Mark stands revealing his towering 6'11 frame.

Boswell: Basketball.

Oscar-winning Mark Eaton?


Riding the Bench screenplay
[Mark Eaton's screeplay]
Mark Eaton's personal website [7 foot 4.com]
The ten man rotation starring Mark Eaton's movie script [Yahoo]

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