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...professional writer, a crucial part of my job is analyzing other people's writing in order to make fun of it and feel superior. And by far the worst writing inflicted on the largest audience each year is the Academy Award acceptance speech. So on behalf of Oscar viewers everywhere, I offered my punch-up services for free to several of the nominees this time. All of them turned me down. Their main concern seemed to be revealing their speeches in advance to a journalist. They must be aware of the making-fun part of our job...
...Crowley began fighting for his children’s lives after learning that his young son and daughter suffered from Pompe disease, a rare and progressive neuromuscular disorder that is usually fatal. He quit his job and started his own biotechnology company in search of a cure. Eventually, Cambridge-based biotechnology giant Genzyme acquired Crowley’s company and, in collaboration with Duke University and the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, ultimately developed Myozyme—a treatment that saved the lives of Crowley’s children...
...struggle. She also credits the film with accurately portraying “The Mother of All Experiments,” the analysis of four experimental drug treatments for Pompe disease, of which Myozyme was determined the most promising product. She says that the film does an especially good job of conveying the sense of urgency cultivated by the experiment, as scientists toiled to find a treatment that would save rapidly declining young patients...
...develop some practical skills in addition to your creative, artistic skills. It is challenging to work in the arts. In the independent film industry in particular, it’s hard to pay the bills. Everyone I know in the industry has to have another part-time job. It helps to have some kind of practical, marketable skill that will help pay the bills while you develop your...
...Arts, which I am a supporter of today. The grant gave me seed money to make this documentary and it instilled me with confidence that the project had validity. I made it in partnership with another student who was in my class. We sold it. I later got a job in L.A. as an assistant to the head of a movie studio...