Word: fictions
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...hardest things to portray in fiction is the creative process; it's more interesting to watch, say, Jackson Pollack empty a whiskey bottle than a tube of paint. But somehow, this gimmicky, bitchy, wonderful reality show pulled it off, by challenging a set of aspiring fashion designers to do things like make a garment out of products from a grocery store (the corn-husk dress won). Unlike so many reality game shows, Runway actually cast intelligent, interesting creative people interested in doing good work in their field rather than media whores out to become future Style channel hosts...
...Books: Five fiction and five non-fiction greats...
...FICTION...
...WORTH A TRY. Everything's worth a try. I didn't make this movie to make money, and I don't know if I've made a commercial movie at all. But I certainly feel that if filmmakers have the courage to talk about these issues--whether they're fictional representations of real events or are pure fiction or pure documentaries--as long as we're willing to talk about the real tough, hard subjects unsparingly, I think it's a good thing to get out in the ether. It's not a bad thing. And there's a project...
...text, to more free-ranging storytelling. "There are guys who can spend an hour just talking about one verse, and that happens to be my favorite form of preaching," he says. "But there is a marketplace of ideas. People now have access to iPods and TV and movies." Christian fiction is booming, and "if you go to a good, big, Evangelical church now, you'll hear a guy weaving a story...