Word: screenplays
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...note to clients, Commerzbank analyst Michael Ganske wrote: "The strong macroeconomic story of the country is increasingly obscured by homemade negative headlines and developments that clearly worsen the economic outlook for Russia." Ganske went so far as to call the Georgia war "a bloody next act in a screenplay that could be named 'how to destroy the investment story of one of the strongest credits in the emerging-markets universe...
...dreadful cost of the battle, lends a terrible poignancy to the film. The fact that Maxwell struggled for a decade to realize the project (even mortgaging his home to retain the rights to Michael Shaara's Pulitzer- prizewinning novel, The Killer Angels, on which he based his screenplay) lends a certain critical tolerance to one's view of the film, which lingers too long over the preparations for engagement, contains perhaps too many couriers galloping up with exposition and concludes with a battle that is handled rather distantly and bloodlessly. These flaws, though, are minor compared with the acuity...
DIED. Alan Jay Lerner, 67, composer, playwright and lyricist of Broadway hit musicals, including Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon and Gigi, and author of the screenplay for An American in Paris; of lung cancer; in New York City. Lerner worked with Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein, but his greatest successes were produced during a tempestuous, 20-year collaboration with Frederick Loewe (Lerner wrote the book and lyrics, Loewe the music). The partnership broke up in the early 1960s, but last year, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, the two were jointly honored for their contributions to American...
...there are good reasons to think WALL-E may be an Obamaesque trailblazer. Since Toy Story in 1995, Pixar has steadily built momentum and begun collecting Oscar nominations in more and more categories. Last year's Ratatouille set a record with five, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Score...
...clever screenplay, by ex-King of the Hill writers Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, is a tribute to the effect the '70s martial arts films had, especially on the pre-teen set, when they flooded Saturday-morning U.S. TV in the wake of Bruce Lee's success with Enter the Dragon. A boy who watched those movies would be nearing middle age now, but he'd recognize KFP's plot - of a laggard who undergoes rigorous training to become a great fighter - from many films, including the one that made Jackie Chan a star, the 1978 Drunken Master...