From Beholder.com: An interesting attempt to make The Movie Hollywood is Afraid to Make (and a good example of how Flash animation can be used to sell a script or project).

 

From The Mercury News: Put down your Syd Fields! Never shell out bucks for a screenwriting seminar again! Here it is: the recipe for the perfect movie.

Thursday, May 22, 2003

 

From The New York Times: The best playwriting course out there: award-winning Adam Rapp tends bar at his own plays.

 

From WGA.org: When TV writers Diane English, Norman Lear, Grant Tinker, Larry Gelbart, David W. Rintels et al. get together to say something, listen up.

 

From The Olympian (Olympia, Washington): After his publisher turned sour on his novel, the musically-named Thom Jones took it to Hollywood and struck paydirt. But is success worth all those two hour phone calls with Bruce Willis?

Tuesday, May 20, 2003

 

From The Village Voice: There are a lot of great plays and playwrights out there. So how come so few of them are getting to New York?

 

From The Guardian (London): What can you do but laugh? Deserted by his mother at nine and his father at eleven, laid low by a nervous breakdown at fifteen, and married and divorced by age twenty, British screenwriter/producer Paul (Reckless, Cracker) Abbott mines comedy from his early years in the TV series Shameless.

Monday, May 19, 2003

 

From The Seattle Times: Playwright August Wilson makes the leap from page to stage (literally) by starring in his own, autobiographical one man show.

 

From The Times of India: Copyright law is finally catching up with Bollywood, but some Indian screenwriters hope that means more original stories will make it to the screen.

 

From Script Magazine: We're not sure why Neil LaBute has a reputation as a misanthrope: showing people acting badly doesn't mean you hate mankind, it just means you're awake. And in this interview about his new movie The Shape of Things (based on his stage play), he's positively paternal towards his characters.

Sunday, May 18, 2003

 

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