From The Treatment (KCRW Santa Monica): In this radio interview, William Mastrosimone talks about creating the bible for Steven Spielberg's mini-series Into the West, and the dream that landed him the job. (Audio file -- RealPlayer required)

 

From American Theatre Magazine: With all due respect to William Mastrosimone (see above), we wonder what might have happened if William S. Yellow Robe Jr. had been hired to write Into the West. Here, the Assiniboine playwright talks about opening doors for Native artists, "grandchildren-come-latelies," and how Indians come in many colors.

 

From MSN: R.I.P. Ernest Lehman, author of The Sweet Smell of Success, as well as the screenplays of North by Northwest, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Sound of Music, and more.

 

From the Anniston Star: A lovely appreciation of the playwright Christopher Fry, who died June 30th at the age of 97. "I was introduced to Fry by a girlfriend . . . . We would both thrill when, in an especially exciting passage, he would reach back and just fling the language into the sky, where it would sail like a bird planing on the currents."

Monday, July 04, 2005

 

From AlterNet: My Brother Nikhil is India's first film to address both HIV and homosexuality. But, says director and co-writer Onir, it's really a film about family.

 

From Playbill.com: After five years and $100,000 worth of development (thanks to a National Theatre Artist Residency Grant), Octavia Solis's Gibraltar opens at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.