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A story in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine focuses largely on Jared Cohen, who at 28 is the youngest member of the State Department’s policy planning staff. He and […]
What is the future of the workplace? Is new technology making the traditional office more efficient or is it making it extinct? Which innovations provide real solutions? These are some […]
While Old Spice's "Smells Like a Man, Man" viral marketing campaign is an enormous success—the Old Spice Channel on YouTube has received 6,589,665 views and gained 94,580 subscribers—the ad campaign […]
Yesterday, President Obama traveled to Holland, Michigan, a city on the western shore of the state’s Lower Peninsula, to attend the groundbreaking for a factory that will manufacture high-grade lithium-ion […]
A single gene has been found to be shared in nearly all living animals—"including sea anemones, worms, insects, marine invertebrates, fish and humans."
The Israeli parliament may soon offer a legal definition of who is actually Jew, giving the country's Orthodox rabbis control of all conversions in Israel.
While mobile technology was supposed to liberate us from our desks, Rebecca Traister writes that they now make us feel like we never have any free time.
"France has no interest in becoming a multicultural society—or, to put it traditionally, a mosaic society or a tapestry of loosely bound communities," writes Jane Kramer. "It is not the Ottoman empire."
The Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill gives regulators the power to break up too-big-to-fail banks. The first time this is done it will send a powerful message, says Simon Johnson.
British gerontologist Aubrey de Grey and nine other co-authors are urging the United States and other nations to "set up a Project Apollo-scale initiative to avert the coming 'global aging crisis.'"
Wall Street II features a hedge fund manager. What will he be like? N+1 editor Keith Gessen has published a book,Diary of a Very Bad Year: Confessions of an Anonymous […]
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The biggest mistake young screenwriters make is "over-reliance on dialogue" when, in fact, a screenplay is really about setting up the visual scene.
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The tendency seems to be toward telling the same old stories with a new kind of "visual panache." The screenwriter wants to see "more movies of substance."
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Screenwriting is like creating Frankenstein’s monster; assembling body parts is easy, but giving them life is "almost impossible."
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At first, the critical consensus was that "Groundhog Day" was merely "cute." But over time it developed a mass following of viewers and critics alike.
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The screenwriter had 50 meetings with different producers when he was trying to sell his script. The most common reaction: "I loved 'Groundhog Day.' Of course, we can’t make it."
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Rubin's 1993 comedic cult classic is actually an examination of whether one lifetime is enough for some men to fully outgrow adolescence
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A conversation with the "Groundhog Day" screenwriter.
Shares of private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, concluding a multi-year plan to take public a firm that helms billions of dollars […]
Financial regulatory reform will soon be a reality, almost two years after the devastating financial crash of 2008. A 2,300 page bill was passed by the Senate in a 60-38 […]