From Viewaskew.com: Kevin Smith weighs in on how Gigli's spectacular belly-flop might affect his own upcoming Ben and J-Lo starrer, Jersey Girl.

Monday, August 04, 2003

 

From The Boston Globe: Australian screenwriter and director Gregor Jordan didn't think he'd created a political hot-potato with his new film, Buffalo Soldiers. Then along came 9/11.

 

From The Globe and Mail: You've heard of Neil Simon and you've heard of Alan Ayckbourn, but there's a very good chance you've never heard of Norm Foster. And yet his middlebrow comedies receive over 100 productions in North America every year. Who the heck is this guy?

 

From Scr(i)pt Magazine: Screenwriter and story analyst Kathryn McCullough dispels some myths about "readers" (no, they don't hate you personally), and offers some common-sense advice on what impresses them.

 

From L.A. Weekly: Playwright Sarah Schulman takes time out from The La Jolla Playhouse's Page to Stage workshops to pummel the white men she says run American theatre (and won't allow her lesbian characters on stage): "There’s absolutely no interest in diversity at all in the theater world."