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Before screenwriter James L. White wrote the film Ray, which stars Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, he had a long journey. According to an article by Nancy Hendrickson White moved to L.A. in the late ’70s to pursue his writing dreams, but he didn’t get his first writing assignment  until 1995. Ray was produced in 2004 [...]

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Nicholas Kazan has had 15 films made from his scripts including the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune which earned him an Oscar nomination.
“My life as a writer began in the theater. The first time I wrote a real play, I was in college, eating breakfast, and heard a single line of dialogue echoing over and [...]

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Sometimes I think about the only way
That I’ll ever see life beyond L.A. is dying
                                                  Ambrosia 
                                   [...]

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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing [...]

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When Henry Miller died in 1980 at the age of 88 he had over 40 books published. On Wikipedia it was written that Miller “was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of ‘novel’ that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, [...]

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“The United States is the only country with a known birthday.”  
                                           James G. Blaine
July 4th not only marks the birthday of the United States of America (and the signing of the Declaration of Independence [...]

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“Making it up as I go along. I write with a ballpoint pen and scratch out lines and paragraphs, revising them as I make my way into the story, the characters letting me know what comes next. Once I’ve handwritten a page until I like it, I put in on the IBM Wheelwriter 1000. If [...]

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But, somewhere back there in the dust,
That same small town that’s in each of us.
                                    The End of the Innocence 
                                    Don Henely 
Got nothing [...]

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“I’m one of those coaches who believes it’s my responsibility to be there for my players—my students—any way I can.”
                                               Ed Thomas 
 
That kind of thing isn’t supposed to happen in a place like [...]

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It is a small world after all when tonight begins the first ever Disneyland verses Disney World NBA championship when the L.A. Lakers face the Orlando Magic. 
And while this is the first championship showdown between these two teams, they made their big screen debut in the 1991 Lawrence Kasden film Grand Canyon. The film opens [...]

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