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Jun.20.2012
(Originally posted at Huffington Post Entertainment.)
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but that is completely wrong. Adaptation is the sincerest form of flattery.
One of the great joys of my career was getting to know Ray Bradbury, who recently passed away at 91. The first time...
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Dec.29.2011
1. Senna (dir. Asif Kapadia) Thanks to more than 15,000 hours of archival footage, expertly edited, this thrilling and complex doc on three-time Formula One driving champion Ayrton Senna has the narrative drive of a scripted feature. A legend in his native Brazil, we see how Senna's religious...
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Dec.27.2011
It's with great pleasure that I announce the winners of the 2011 Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and Nonfiction:
1st Place, “The Artist Formerly Known” © Christopher Hivner, Dallastown, PA
A small town newspaper story on a bizarre visual artist named Chablis who turns local life upside...
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Nov.10.2011
Win $500. Entry fee: Still just a paltry, laughable $5 per entry (since 2000).
You're funny. And I don't mean funny looking. Writers of comedic essays, articles, short stories, poetry, shopping lists, ransom notes and other forms are invited to submit.
Don't say nuthin' bad about my mama! ...
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Dec.31.2010
It's my great pleasure to announce the three winners of this year's Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and Nonfiction.
1st Place ($500): "A Little Toilet Drama" by Sharon Rina de Villiers, Durban, South Africa
A woman's desperate letter to her husband-to-be, locked in a...
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Nov.17.2010
What is the significance of the Beatles' studio catalog finally, after years of waiting, being available on iTunes?
Is it about Apple making boatloads of money? Is it the conclusion of an internecine and bitter litigation between Apple, Beatles management and the Beatles record label, EMI? Is it a...
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Sep.19.2010
Gina Misiroglu of RedRoom.com has enabled me to post my second original essay about my book, co-authored with Steve Roby, Becoming Jimi Hendrix. This time, my AOL piece, rather than concentrating on Jimi's racial identity in the early 60s, explores his phenomenal scope of musical genres, which ran...
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Sep.01.2010
It was forty years ago, September 18, that arguably the greatest electric guitarist to ever live, Jimi Hendrix, passed away. His legacy as an innovative genius is not in question. But when Hendrix archivist-author Steven Roby offered me the chance to co-write a biography of Jimi's developmental...
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Aug.14.2010
After a year of researching, writing, finding rare photos for licensing and agonizing over being completely honest about the life of the greatest electric guitarist who ever lived, I'm pleased to tell you that on August 31, Da Capo/Perseus releases in stores in the US and UK the early years...
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Apr.27.2010
The largest book festival in the US, the recently concluded L.A. Times Festival of Books, on the UCLA campus, is one of the few times one can savor excessive traffic. The 130,000 plus attendees wandered the campus, attending panels and presentations among more than 400 authors.
It was this...
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Jul.01.2009
The 2009 version of the Palm Springs International ShortFest and Short Film Market is concluded and, as the largest festival of its kind in North America, press more easily can navigate the 315 films via not only the programs at the Camelot Theatres multiplex but their film library, abuzz each day...
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Jun.25.2008
The real shock and awe has worn off a little, that of George Carlin, as he might say, “going away.” I am able to better assemble some thoughts about, for me, the most important comedian we had.
“Going away,” George said about humanity. The planet is staying right here. But we, polluting little...
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Jun.11.2008
You can learn about a person by what that person does and what that person says. But you can also learn a lot about a journalist by the company he keeps.
One of the great rewards in writing arts journalism, it seems, is to praise those who you admire with complimentary analysis. When the...
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If you shake the Universe hard enough, change will fall out of its pockets.”
—--Brad
About Brad
BRAD SCHREIBER has worked as a writer in all media. Schreiber was nominated for the Kingman Films Screenwriting Award for his script The Couch and has won awards and fellowships from the Edward Albee Foundation, the National Press Foundation, the National...
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Wellstone Action! (Sen. Paul Wellstone, MN)
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