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| Alan Bennett's 'Smut' is more witty than smutty USA TODAY Alan Bennett, the versatile British playwright, screenwriter and actor best known for The History Boys and The Madness of King George, finds sex inherently funny, especially when it involves appearances that are deceiving. He has packaged two short ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ask Mick LaSalle: Madonna's multi-untalented San Francisco Chronicle She has had this extraordinary career - as an author, screenwriter, singer, dancer and actress - not by being multi-talented, but by being multi-untalented. Hello Mick: Why couldn't the academy choose a worthy 10th movie to put in its best picture ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Death was a tale fit for film Winston-Salem Journal Screenwriter George Zuckerman took Robert Wilder's story, shifted the location from North Carolina to Texas, made the source of the family wealth oil instead of tobacco and changed all the names of the characters. "I saw Written on the Wind when I was ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Five suggestions for making the Oscars a lot more fun Montreal Gazette Anyone who remembers to thank the screenwriter gets an extra 10 seconds. - Death to the death montage. The In Memoriam segment brings the show down and slows the pace to a grinding halt. And it's crass beyond words when some of the departed get more ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Independent Spirit Awards: Awarding indies and echoing Oscar Washington Post (blog) After a brief search, it became clear that "50/50" producer Evan Goldberg and others at their table had intentionally hidden it from the award-winning screenwriter as a joke. (Hide the trophy from the cancer survivor — nice move, guys.) ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Shore's Robert Legato is special-effects wizard behind 'Hugo' Asbury Park Press The screenwriter for "Hugo," John Logan, also has roots in New Jersey. There will be other Jersey connections at the awards show, including a nomination for Meryl Streep, who grew up in Bernardsville. Legato said he will attend tonight's Academy Award ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Reindeer Games (Director's Cut) DVD Talk Penned by a screenwriter whose credits include Scream 3 and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I guess it kinda goes without saying that the dialogue has a double-digit IQ wit and is pretty painful all around. Frankenheimer finds some intriguing ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Oscar by the numbers East Valley Tribune In "Midnight in Paris," Owen Wilson plays a hack screenwriter who dreams of better, more literate things, and the documentary short "God Is the Bigger Elvis" is about starlet Dolores Hart, who traded Hollywood for life as a Benedictine nun. 8. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Adam Sandler Leads The 32nd Annual Razzie Race With Most Nominations Ever Pedestrian TV Not surprisingly, Adam Sandler leads the charge with a record for the most RAZZIE nominations in a single year, racking up a swagger of shameful 'Worst In Film' nods for his work as an actor, producer and screenwriter, doubling up on Eddie Murphy's old ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 3/2-31: Arizona Broadway Theatre's 'Sunset Boulevard' AZ Central.com It opens Friday, March 2, with Cassandra starring as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-movie star who enlists a struggling young screenwriter to help her engineer a Hollywood comeback. (For those who don't know what "noir" means, things do not go as ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Hot: Christine Penney and Brian Chamberlain heat up stage in 'Burn This' Seacoastonline.com Burton is a wealthy screenwriter, who lives in his head and is Anna's staid boyfriend, explains Stephens. "With Andy I know I'm going to get the gravitas needed. He's going to make it authentic," he says. "Not to mention he's just as big as Brian, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| 'My films create a show, not reality' Bangalore Mirror Jean-Claude Grumberg, the screenwriter and playwright, had told me a story on how one day, while he was talking to a producer about a silent movie actor who had been wiped out by the arrival of the talkies, the producer had replied, 'That's wonderful, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Silent and French Times of Malta ... Moneyball and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy also vying for the prize. My money is on the latter, and Peter Straughan will collect the Oscar on his and his co-screenwriter's behalf – his wife Bridget O'Connor who sadly passed away in 2010. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| FICTION: "Red Plenty," by Francis Spufford Minneapolis Star Tribune I persuade the wheels to go round"), while "Stormy Applause" is Spufford's portrayal of real-life songwriter/screenwriter/playwright/poet Sasha Galich and his reactions to the changing limits of artistic freedom. Between the fact, fiction, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Reg Henry: 'Downton Abbey' a bloody-good upper-crust soap opera Cherokee Tribune Into the mouths of the many characters, the screenwriter Julian Fellowes puts many a witticism and telling phrase. To those who like a few bon mots — and, as I always say, if you are going to say a "mot," it's best to make it "bon" — "Downton Abbey ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Terry Gilliam's On-Off Quixote Movie Is On Again Bleeding Cool News The latest info we have comes from an interview with the film's co-screenwriter, Tony Grisoni "interviewed by email in February 2012″ at the blog Money Into Light. Us survivors of Don Q are a strange kind of dysfunctional family. See all stories on this topic » |
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