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...once he had solved Kushner's concerns about formatting a screenplay ("I said, 'Well, there's a program called Scriptor--put it on your laptop and you don't have to worry about that again'"), Kushner said he would try a few scenes. They became a 300-page first draft, written largely on spec, after which he and Spielberg happily collaborated for a little more than a year to complete the script. "You speak the words, and I'll provide the pictures," Spielberg remembers saying. "It was a lot of e-mails and arguments on the phone," Kushner says...
...court historically has granted extra deference to the military. And according to Polsby, the stipulations of the Solomon Amendment are far less onerous than, say, the military draft...
...search committee—composed of 14 select faculty members, administrators, and representatives of undergraduate student organizations—has already met twice to draft the job proposal and to discuss selection criteria...
...junior year and I said ‘Trust me on this, we have a special player at quarterback. The guy’s got an incredible work ethic,’” Murphy said. “John did call me about a week before the draft and said, ‘Hey, you’re right, we love this guy. We have him down as in the low second round or into the third round.’ But he said ‘We have so many pressing needs and quarterback isn?...
...gone.”So, am I just doing some kind of Calvinist delayed-gratification guilt-trip principle by going to these things? Why am I still compelled, despite your rational logic? What sort of beast am I? Henry: Beasts of burden. That’s right, draft animals, kosher hunks of meat with cloven hooves and mouthfuls of cud. Together we are herded underground, into dark, crowded bars, to await the slaughter of the opening act, dreaming of DMB popping out and doing a 50-minute jam on “Tripping Billies...