“Smallfoot satisfyingly operates on multiple levels and is much deeper than it appears to be.” Adam Graham, The Detriot News Smallfoot opens in theater today and so today as well I’m going to start Part 1 of an interview I did with Clare Sara who wrote the screenplay along with the director Karey Kirkpatrick. Of the […]
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“Trint is the best all-around automatic transcription tool for journalists.” Ren Laforme, Poynter Institute Tomorrow I’ll start a run of posts based on an interview I did with screenwriter Clare Sera—one of the credited writers on Smallfoot, which opens in theaters tomorrow. Before today I’m going to share with you a new piece of AI […]
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“If you’re gonna throw your life away, he’d better have a motorcycle.” The concerned mother (Lauren Graham) to her teenage daughter (Alexis Bledel) in the pilot for Gilmore Girls One of the fringe benefits to the success of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel winning seven Emmy Awards is its given new recognition to the Gilmore Girls. Amy Sherman-Palladino, the […]
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”We wanted this journey, even though it was 1958, to feel energized and vibrant and for an 18-year-old to look at it and go, ‘I get that. And that is my story, too.’” Amy Sherman-Palladino Variety After The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel won seven Emmy Awards on Sunday on Sunday (including Outstanding Comedy Series) I decided […]
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I thought the most dynamic scene in the movie Steve Jobs (2015) was the confrontation between Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak before the launch of the iMac. It’s a confrontation that didn’t literally happen, but one in which Wozniak told Tech Insider that it was the “sentiment” and “feelings” that others had and that those […]
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“You had me at hello.“ Dorothy Boyd (Rene Zellweger) in Jerry Maguire Most of the time, me writing looks—to the untrained eye—like someone watching ESPN. The truth is if you did a pie chart of the writing process, most of the time is spent thinking. When you’re loaded up and ready to go—when you’ve got […]
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When comedian, actor, and game show host Drew Carey was starting out he tried doing standup “as a goof” while in college and it didn’t go well. After a few failed attempts, he was glad he gave it a shot and get it out of his system. After he dropped out of college, he joined […]
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“I was Number One at the box office five years in a row, which I don’t think anybody has done since. In 1978, I had four movies at once playing nationwide. If I met you then, I’m sorry.” Actor/director Burt Reynolds (reflecting on his unchecked ego) It wasn’t a fair fight. Star Wars vs. Smokey & the […]
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It wasn’t a fair fight. Star Wars vs. Smokey & the Bandit that is. When both of those movies opened during the same week in May 1977, who do you think won coming out of the gate? The one featuring a black Trans Am or the one featuring an X-Wing Starfighter? Keep in mind that […]
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“Andy Hertzfeld’s reaction to the movie [Steve Jobs] was probably the most accurate—‘My god, none of that happened, but it’s all true.’” Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin This post is three years behind the times since the movie Steve Jobs came out in 2015, so I’m going to begin at the end. So if you haven’t seen […]
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