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Sarah Palin poured the visitor a cup of coffee and listened intently to his 45-minute pitch. "It sounds like a good idea," she told him. "I'll sign it and support...
...show, and when I was at a gaming [convention], one of my fans came up to me and gave me one of his WristStrong bracelets. I have of course worn it through my training, and we've been editing together a pitch because I thought basically, here was my ticket to get onto the show. And midway through my training, Garrett Reisman, a NASA astronaut who is also a fan of the show, called in from space, to show that he had this on his wrist. In space. And totally scooped...
...president of the country, and I didn’t even know if he had a butcher or a barber, so I abandoned the film idea. [Editor’s note: Mbeki resigned the South African presidency effective today, September 25.]11. FM: How did you spin a film pitch into a novel? CD: When I enrolled for the creative writing course the idea came back to me and it became something different, it became a fable with Mbeki as the inspiration for the book. The themes remained the same: how people feel close to someone in power...
...light tone makes the absurd plot seem harmless enough—until a single violent scene ups the stakes of the entire movie. But rather than using this event as an opportunity to thicken the plot and deepen the intrigue, the Coens carry on at the same pitch as before. As a result, the audience is left with a mild sense of shock, rather than horror, when the body count reaches a staggering climax. Stylistically, “Burn After Reading” adheres to the Coens’ aesthetic of long, panning shots that span the length of entire...
...even hearing the two presidential candidates address each other directly in a debate? Then again, after being subjected to almost two years of near endless campaigning and media coverage, the option of just voting and being done with it all may be harder to resist than either candidate's pitch...