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Dec.09.2008
After Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel was published I asked Al what he thought about it. It was awkward for both of us. Usually when one writes a book about someone, one isn't having lunch with that person every Sunday, as I do with Al when he's in Los Angeles. I often wonder what...
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Oct.29.2008
Batman: The Dark Knight!
Watch out Robert Mugabe they are coming after you. You don’t seem to behave cordially with western folks these days! Eh? Are you too big for your shoes? Have you heard about a dark knight? He is coming after you.Iran, stop enriching uranium! You folks are a real menace to...
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Sep.15.2008
So you want to know about screenwriting?
First, a brief background (and of course you can read more in depth at my website, AlexandraSokoloff.com).
Before I sold my first novel, THE HARROWING, I worked steadily as a screenwriter for ten years. I had a pretty typical screenwriting career, actually...
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Aug.08.2008
Beverly Hills, 90210
[I have my daughter Hannah Sward's permission to run this brief excerpt from her work in progress, Diary of a Non-Starlet]
On the Set of Beverly Hills, 90210”
Author’s note: Chloe is an L.A.-based, aspiring 22 year old actress with a Master of Dramatic Arts degree working as a...
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Jul.30.2008
In honor of that convention that is in the process of strangling itself with its own success, I want to say a few words about the comics and their influence on modern art and literature. I am not a snob who looks down on graphic novels and says "pictures? Ewww..." I read The Watchmen...
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Jul.28.2008
Dear red room readers: here's a bit from my regular blog, www.waxword.net, where I talk about Hollywood, the world of entertainment and media and, occasionally, the world of stolen antiquities. sw.
Programming: Reliable Sources on Sunday
Tune in to Howard Kurtz's "Reliable Sources" on...
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Jul.06.2008
I've just posted chapter 5 of Million Dollar Ideas on my author page. It's Hollywood in 1946 and Ed and Johnny, our screenwriting heroes, are bringing their peculiarly anachronistic ideas to bear on reviving Universal Studios' classic monster movie franchise. In the process, they learn some things...
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Jun.26.2008
WHAT: Esotouric debuts "Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits' Los Angeles" bus tour, followed by a group reading and signing of host David Smay's new book "Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones" (Continuum's 33 1/3 series) WHEN: Bus tour is Saturday August 30, noon-4pm, reading follows at...
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Jun.18.2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif, June 18...
The fault is not in ourselves, but in our stars, says Efraim Durg.
Reeling from a huge loss, Durg, the founder of Durgometrics, a hedge fund that specializes in sports betting, blamed "bad celebrity vibes" for the L.A. Lakers humiliating loss in the...
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Jun.12.2008
I'm in the mood to let the great issues of American politics take care of themselves today and think instead about one of those cultural contributions of ours that flourish despite all political and economic vicissitudes. The movies, specifically. A video artist named Philip Scott Johnson has made...
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