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Home The Brainwashing of My Dad doc! What happened to the filmmaker’s dad when he was exposed long-term to Fox News. Take a peek at the trailer.
Read moreaperfectpalindrome: thecoppercow: mattgoldey: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams oh. I remember seeing one of those “if you could go back in time to meet one person, who would you meet?” debates that flit through the internet every so often. One person’s response: “I would go back to 1999 or 2000 to meet…
Read moreFairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. Neil Gaiman, Coraline (via booksquoteslove)
Read moreTerry’s Picks: Loving Lifetime, Fox’s Failure, Congrats Katharina
nywift: Loving Lifetime: Check out this great read on Buzzfeed about the evolution of Lifetime from “guiltily pleasure” to “groundbreaking television.” Women wrote or directed 73% of the network’s original films from 1994 to 2016, and its new initiative called the “Fempire” will draw together linear, digital, social and community partnerships with the goal of…
Read moreGood Notes
brianparis: I got some good notes on a TV Pilot that I just wrote. The theme of the notes was to be more creative (and interesting) when translating from the outline to the draft. My current draft hits a lot of the ideas in the most straightforward way. I need to work on not only…
Read morestuffmomnevertoldyou: The plot of 9 to 5 feels nothing short of radical, even (and perhaps especially) today. Mr. Hart spends his days harassing Doralee by telling her she’s much more to him than “just a dumb secretary.” He lies about sleeping with her, and purposefully knocks pencils on the floor so she’ll lean over and…
Read morethefilmstage: Francis Ford Coppola’s cameo in Apocalypse Now. He reflects on the making of the film. “Cinema is in its infancy.” – FFC
Read moreDo you have any tips about writing the exposition?
referenceforwriters: Ah, yes. The exposition. Come with me. The thing with exposition is that you can very easily lose your readers in it. I know I have found myself skipping (consciously or not) paragraphs or even pages if I don’t find the information in them engaging enough as they delve into explaining things, whether it…
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