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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.
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The ADL National Director says judgment is still out on whether the positives promised by religion are outweighed by the negatives.
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We’re seeing a policy that distances the United States from Israel in order to reach out to the Arab Muslim world.
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If criticism of Israel’s policies demeans or degrades the country—or questions its legitimacy—then it’s anti-Semitic.
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Sacha Baron Cohen as “Borat” wasn’t funny, says Foxman. Neither was Archie Bunker in “All in the Family.”
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Anti-Semitism can be based on everything from religion to ignorance to wealth to capitalism.
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A conversation with the National Director of the Anti-Defamation League.
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If growers of food paid the full cost of soil erosion, water pollution, adverse health affects on farm workers, organic food would cost half the price of traditional food.
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“How many more spills do we need? How many more earthquakes do we need, or volcanoes, or hurricanes? … The earth, in a sense, is telling us, ‘You can’t keep […]
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The car company was running ads about the Prius and their commitment to the environment while secretly lobbying in California against increased gas mileage standards.
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A conversation with co-founder and CEO of Seventh Generation
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The developer behind Winamp and the gnutella network thinks that we shouldn’t be able to patent something that is essentially just math. Software, like DNA, is so abstract that it […]