Nina Foch made the girls cry, and occasionally the boys too. And they were never tears of joy. Trust me…
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"Rosebud!" The famous, first murmured word from Orson Welles' 1941 cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane, is a plant, only to be…
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Years ago I was in therapy, whining through misdirected diatribes of what happened yesterday, the day before, or last week.…
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“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” This line, brilliantly delivered by Mandy Patinkin as…
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Give a master carpenter a truckload of tools and a bunch of wood; he’ll build something. But hand him structural…
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Okay, so incorporating a writing schedule isn’t rocket science, but being true to the basics is often the hardest thing…
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Seven out of ten movies lose money, and that’s after worldwide box office, DVD sales, internet downloads, and cable &…
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I talk a lot about the importance of endings and beginnings. In fact, I’d argue that the first thing to…
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Thanks to the mastermind behind Avatar, James Cameron, 3-D is here to stay... at least for a while, that is…
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