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Dec.10.2012
The 58-key upright piano, actor and vocalist Dooley Wilson used to play As Time Goes By in Casablanca, is up for auction at Sothebys this weekend. It’s estimated worth is $1.2 million. That figure is expected rise once it become available.
The movie prop was used in key...
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Oct.22.2012
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced HITCHCOCK, starring Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, Helen Mirren as his wife Alma, Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh, Jessica Biel as Vera Miles, and James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins, will have its world premiere on Thursday, November 1st....
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Sep.21.2012
On the eve of its nationwide release on November 9th, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln will close the LA: The AFI Film Fest. Starring Daniel Day Lewis as our 16th President, this will give the festival audience a jump on the Oscar season. For the 4th consecutive year, AFI FEST will continue to...
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Sep.17.2012
The most ambitious Classic Film Festival will begin today in Upstate New York. Over the next two years, Proctors on State Street in Schenectady is proud to present FILM 100: The American Film Institute Essentials, a thorough countdown from the AFI lists of the TOP 100 films. Each Monday screenings...
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Apr.05.2012
President Barack Obama has taped a brief introduction for a special television screening of To Kill a Mockingbird on the USA Network. A restored version of this iconic motion picture will air this Saturday evening as part of a 50th anniversary celebration of the creation of this...
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Mar.22.2012
One of the latest phenomenons in the writing world is the book trailer. These trailers are meant to do what movie previews do– alert an audience to an upcoming project and inspire them to see (or, in this case, read) it.
Five books into my career, I’d never had a trailer for any of my books....
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Oct.11.2011
A pair of legendary creative entertainers will receive career honors.
Shirley MacLaine has been selected by the American Film Institute to receive a 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, four years after her younger brother Warren Beatty was recognized. She will be their 40th...
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Jun.07.2011
Writing is a solitary ritual. We think of rituals as something stemming from religion But the truth is that anything can be a ritual: dancing, playing music, working out, meditation, yoga, praying, taking holy communion, paying bills, cooking, getting ready for bed at night. Even funerals are...
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Nov.14.2010
AFI Part 2 – Substance Issues
As I tell my students, you can learn a lot from stories that don’t work well. I was reminded of that in two of three other films I saw at the AFI Fest film festival. So many elements go into a well-told narrative that it can feel impossible to get it right when writing...
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Nov.11.2010
Stories can be as important as brain surgery. To write them well can make an author a brain surgeon. I don’t say this lightly. When I see lines curl out the door of a bookstore for a reading by an author, or lines most recently outside theatres on Hollywood Boulevard for AFI Fest, it’s clear people...
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