Script Writer News--4.22.12

Script writer ... Shia LaBeouf The Sun The actor has started writing and drawing his own comics. Shia shocked visitors at the Chicago Comic And Entertainment Expo when he turned up and bought his own table to show off his work. A visitor said: "He was selling his own books and was more than ... See all stories on this topic » The Sun

Indie Focus: 'Goodbye First Love' hits close to home for writer-director Los Angeles Times After finishing her first film, "All Is Forgiven," in 2007, Hansen-Løve had completed two scripts, one that became her second film, 2009's "Father of My Children," but also another that would eventually become "Goodbye First Love. See all stories on this topic » Los Angeles Times

CASABLANCA at Seventy: Theatres host reprise showing of 1942 classic NorthcentralPa.com By Joseph W. Smith III Writer Julius Epstein claimed that it had "more corn than the states of Kansas and Iowa combined. But when corn works, there's nothing better." He was talking about his screenplay for an unassuming little wartime romance back in ... See all stories on this topic » NorthcentralPa.com

Stalin-era Russian writer penned part of his own death sentence in Japan The Japan Times ... weeks flying through central and northern Russia, producing a book, "Russia in Flight"; and he lived and drove around the United States for six months, even tossing in a stint in Hollywood where he was hired, temporarily, by MGM as a scriptwriter. See all stories on this topic »

Harmonica ace Charlie Musselwhite plays Cambridge, Fall River Wicked Local The singer and harmonica ace has a biography that reads like it was concocted by a Hollywood scriptwriter, he's widely believed to have been the inspiration for Dan Aykroyd's Blues Brother character, and his long recording career has earned six Grammy ... See all stories on this topic »

Ravi Teja to play a Casanova? Times of India Writer Kona Venkat who wrote the script did not give out any details though. "It's too early to talk about the film. All I can say is that this movie is going to be a complete mass entertainer. The character is tailor made for Ravi Teja and the movie ... See all stories on this topic »