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Sep.30.2011
I shudder thinking of this.I'm probably wrong and I'm definitely guilty of prejudice but I shudder.
A favorite book, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close", Foer, is being made into a movie. Great but it's starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock. Say what? I just don't see them as right...
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Sep.30.2011
...yesterday morning, I thought of the movie version of "In the Woods". My wife and I often game movie casting after seeing it, recasting it sometimes with people with think are better suited. So thinking of "In The Woods", I initially cast Clive Owen or Colin Farel. Well, Clive is too old in...
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Sep.22.2011
Oxford University launches furniture range to raise cashOxford University was accused of cheapening its image last night after the launch of a "vulgar" branded furniture collection.
By Tom Rowley and Lizzie Porter
The institution has put its name to a range of sofas, dining...
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Sep.07.2011
John le Carré is unchallenged as the master of his trade, as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy hits the big screenA new film version of the George Smiley spy classic confirms the thriller's genius.Old hand: John le Carré won't allow his work to be entered for literary awards Photo: Adrian...
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Aug.26.2011
The Trial
Toward the end of 1968, when I first met Orson Welles, he was so remarkably disarming that I had the nerve to tell him the one film of his I didn’t really like (at that time) was his 1962 adaptation of Franz Kafka’s famous, surrealistically inclined novel, THE TRIAL (...
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Aug.17.2011
Tonight, 8:00 PM EST. the cast and crew tell the "Inside Story of Dances With Wolves" on BIO Channel. Kevin Costner encouraged Michael Blake to turn his screenplay into a book which led to the movie and history. Blake's handwritten manuscript is now with The University of New Mexico. I got to hold...
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Aug.10.2011
Finishing up from the previous blog, I offer some more differences between writing screenplays and novels.
Very few people will read your script. After friends and partners, you have your agent, manager, executives, producers. Maybe 50-60 people. If it gets produced, then actors, casting agents...
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Aug.07.2011
Ah, this foolishness about whether Shakespeare actually wrote his own plays and poems (and maybe his own will, for all I know) keeps cropping up. "A plague o' both your houses!" sayeth The Bard. The Bard being Wm. Shakespeare Esq. Still, I will admit, it looks like a pretty good movie...
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Jun.15.2011
In the age of globalization, there’s a caveat that often rings true: “You know your culture is a big hit when somebody else is trying to sell it back to you!” Nowhere is this more obvious than the example of the run away box office smash, Kung Fu Panda, and its sequel. A wildly successful animation...
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Jun.02.2011
All this talk of an Apocalypse last month was crazy.
If you hadn’t heard, this old coot named Harold Camping, a Christian evangelist, declared May 21, 2011, to be Judgment Day. Supposedly, thousands of people around the globe believed him. On that Saturday, Harold and his kooky cohorts were...
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