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After consulting a few how-to books on screenwriting, Khouri, a music-video producer who had made videos for Robert Cray, Alice Cooper and the Commodores, started writing. Nine months later, Thelma & Louise found its way to director Ridley Scott and, through him, to MGM/UA. During the shooting, Scott added much of the phallic imagery -- the huge trucks, the giant cacti and a chemical-spewing plane -- that has riled some of the film's detractors. He also cut scenes that portrayed the close friendship between the two title characters, including one in which each confides what she fears most...
...youngest of the new generation of black directors who, inspired by Spike Lee's in-your-face style of moviemaking, are turning out impassioned films about life on today's mean streets. Belying their age, most of these filmmakers have devoted years to developing their craft. Rich started reading how-to books on film when he was 10. "I didn't know what a right angle was, what a barnyard door was, but they had pictures, and I'd read something once, twice, three times, until I understood it," he recalls...
Inventors and companies too small to hire big-time attorneys can find advice in a growing number of how-to books and videos. Accounting firms hold seminars and give private counseling. Insurance companies, such as HLPM in Louisville, are even beginning to carry policies to protect intellectual property from infringers and legal challenges by insuring a patent for up to $1 million...
...instruction. And though there is good protective gear available, a majority of bladers prefer to breeze along unpadded. The most feared injuries are to the head, yet few bladers will deign to don helmets. "They're hot inside and mess up your hair," says Neil Feineman, author of a how-to book for skaters entitled Wheel Excitement. Although he always wears a helmet in street traffic, Feineman adds, "They're hard on the Walkmans...
...stories have been more eye-opening, like an article reporting on the campaign by a younger generation of gay militants to label themselves "queers." Says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Gannett Foundation Media Center: "The Times has been ahead of the pack recently in bringing more soft news and how-to stories, plus adding a touch of tabloid sensationalism." Other newspeople are more judgmental. Says a Washington bureau chief: "The front page isn't the gauge of important news that it used...