From AskMen.com

It's a bit old school -- the screenwriters cited here are either graybeards, or dead -- but this list of the Top 10 Screenwriters of All Time is persuasively argued.

 

From IndieWire

It looks like John Cameron Mitchell's real-sex-on-screen comedy Shortbus won't have to be independently distributed after all; ThinkFilm has picked up the rights because "It chooses to go someplace that a lot of movies don't go." For his part, Mitchell wonders why sex is usually served up so solemnly on film: "It's often the funniest thing anyone can think of, but it's rarely presented with much humor."

 

From The London Free Press

It took screenwriter/director Deepa Mehta five years to complete her acclaimed film Water, in part because of death threats and Hindu fundamentalists who trashed the sets. Still, receiving an honorary doctorate of laws (go figure), she describes it as "my best cinematic experience." And now her once-estranged daughter has written Shooting Water, a personal account of working on the film with her mother, and closing the distance between them.

 

From The Toronto Star

When your upcoming projects include scripts for Clint Eastwood and the next James Bond flick, you know you're on the A-list. But, even as he accepts the Banff Television Festival's Award of Distinction, Paul (Crash) Haggis describes himself as a guy who "failed his way to the top."

 

From The Houston Chronicle

He created the movie Cooley High, which was for African-American kids in the '70s what The Breakfast Club was for white, suburban kids in the '80s. He also invented George Jefferson and a raft of other indelible TV characters. But for the last five years, writer Eric Monte has been living on the streets and in the shelters of East Los Angeles.

 

From Mehr News (Tehran)

Grand Theft Uranium? Screenwriter Fereydun Farhudi suggests Iran needs its own, homegrown computer games, based on, say, "the Iran-Iraq war and even the nuclear energy case."

 

From The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Good news for Luddite writers. A new report unveiled at the Banff Television Festival insists the Internet won't kill off traditional television programming after all. Mind you, you're reading this on the Web, so whadda they know?