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		<title>Screenwriting Quote of the Day #113 (Straczynski)</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/screenwriting-quote-of-the-day-113-straczynski/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before J. Michael Straczynski created  Babylon 5 or wrote the feature Changeling he wrote The Complete Book of Screenwriting back in the 80s. In 1996 he updated the the book. Straczynski didn&#8217;t attend film school but received degrees in psychology and sociology. He seemed to take the dream big, start small approach, &#8220;I cut [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&blog=2579752&post=6767&subd=screenwritingfromiowa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screenwriting Quote of the Day #112 (Karl Iglesias)</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/screenwriting-quote-of-the-day-112-karl-iglesias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Alfred Hitchcock, the undisputed master of suspense drama once said, &#8216;There is no terror in a bang only in the anticipation of it.&#8217;  Anticipation is one of the  most important emotions scriptwriters can feel as they look forward to something that will happen in the future, whether it’s positive, like winning  a big prize, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&blog=2579752&post=6760&subd=screenwritingfromiowa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;North by Northwest&#8221; Turns 50</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been 50 years since the release of the great Alfred Hitchcock film North by Northwest and Warner Bros. just released a Blue-ray 50th Annivesary Edition of the film. Here&#8217;s part of one review of the new release.
&#8220;During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Hitchcock went on one of the greatest winning streaks in cinema [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&blog=2579752&post=6749&subd=screenwritingfromiowa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Berlin Wall, Poker &amp; Doritos</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/the-berlin-wall-poker-doritos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable we&#8217;ve been able to do something so big, so fast.&#8221;
Joe  Herber
Million dollar Doritos commercial winner in 2009
A lot has happened in the last 20 hours. Yesterday the world celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall. Where were you in 1989? Do you even recognize the world from 20 years ago? Even if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&blog=2579752&post=6735&subd=screenwritingfromiowa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off Screen Quote #15 (Itzhak Perlman)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great classical musican and conductor Itzhak Perlman was in Cedar Falls, Iowa last night to perform a fundraising concert for polio research. (He himself contracted polio as a child and uses crutches or a scooter to get around.) The violinist has played around the world and on many film scores including his work as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&blog=2579752&post=6731&subd=screenwritingfromiowa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Filmmaking Quote of the Day #5 (Robert McKee)</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/filmmaking-quote-of-the-day-5-robert-mckee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was driving to a shoot and listening to an old Robert McKee CD on screenwriting based on his book Story and I stumbled upon this little passage that made me stop and repeat it three times:
&#8220;Success in the Art Film genre usually results in instant, though often temporary, recognition as an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&blog=2579752&post=6727&subd=screenwritingfromiowa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Filmmaking Quote of the Day #4 (Will Smith)</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/filmmaking-quote-of-the-day-4-will-smith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Pursuit if Happyness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve never viewed myself as particularly talented. I&#8217;ve viewed myself as&#8230;slightly  above average in talent&#8230;Where I excel is with (a) ridiculous, sickening work ethic. While the other guy&#8217;s sleeping , I&#8217;m working. While the other guy&#8217;s eating, I&#8217;m working.&#8221;
Will Smith
Producer, writer, &#38; two-time Academy Award nominated actor
(The Pursuit if Happyness, Ali)
60 Minutes Interview
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		<title>Screenwriting Quote of the Day #111 (Ernest Lehman)</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/screenwriting-quote-of-the-day-110-ernest-lehman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that before screenwriter Ernest Lehman wrote North by Northwest that he actually went to South Dakota to research climbing Mount Rushmore? It all started with a suggestion by Alfred Hitchcock who told him,  &#8221;I always wanted to do a chase across the faces of Mount Rushmore.&#8221;
So Lehman took a train to Rapid City [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&blog=2579752&post=6708&subd=screenwritingfromiowa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Filmmaking Quote of the Day #3 (Edger J. Scherick)</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/filmmaking-quote-of-the-day-3-edger-j-scherick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edger J. Scherick (1924-2002) is listed on IMDB as producing over 75 movies and documentaries including the &#8216;74 version of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and the documentary He Makes Me Feel Like Dancing for which he won a Primetime Emmy in 1983.
&#8220;Audiences respond to, are touched by yarns spun around men and women [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&blog=2579752&post=6697&subd=screenwritingfromiowa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screenwriting Quote of the Day #110 (Paul Haggis)</title>
		<link>http://screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/screenwriting-quote-of-the-day-110-paul-haggis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott W. Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2006 the first person in more than 50 years to win back to back Oscar Awards in screenwriting was Paul Haggis. He then followed his award-winning scripts Million Dollar Baby and Crash with another Academy Award nomination in 2007 for his screenplay Letters from Iwo Jima.
Haggis had a background in theater and construction before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=screenwritingfromiowa.wordpress.com&blog=2579752&post=6678&subd=screenwritingfromiowa&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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