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The Six-Word Screenplay
Posted in screenwriting, tagged Blasie Pascal, Eric Roth, Ernest Hemingway, Forrest Gumo, Not Quite What I Was Planning, Raymond Chandler, screenwriting, Six-word memoirs, six-word story, Smith Magazine, The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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How to Watch a DVD
Posted in screenwriting, tagged A Place in the Sun, AFI Greatest Films, Annie Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Big, Charles Van Doren, Dustin Hoffman, DVD commentaries, Elizabeth Taylors, entertainment, filmmaking, Finding Nemo, Frank Darabont, George Stevens, How to Read a Book, Mike Nichols, Mortimer J. Adler, movies, Oscars, Rain Man, Rembrand, Ron Bass, screenwriting, Shelly Winters, Steven Spielberg, The Graduate, The Shawshank Redemption, Tom Cruise, Van Gogh on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Years ago, philosophers Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren wrote a serious book called How to Read a Book. In it, they mentioned that unless you’d read a book three times, you really handn’t read the book. That is, you hadn’t digested the book. I wonder how many of the estimated 1.7 billion DVDs [...]
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