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...influential 1990's space television show Babylon 5 and long-time writer for Marvel Comics, J. Michael Straczynski scored some impressive co-workers for his first feature film screenplay. Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, stars Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich. Straczynski spoke to TIME about writing for the big screen and why he's not ashamed that his house looks like a 14-year old's crash...
...Lowdown: If you saw 8 Mile, you're familiar with much of Eminem's story already, and unfortunately the narrative is crisper on the silver screen. Though sprinkled with anecdotal gems, this tangled history veers closer to "annotated picture book" than autobiography and crumples under the weight of too many half-baked attempts at introspection. The book's structure, it seems, was dictated not by laziness but by personal philosophy: he's not much of a reader. ("If there are no pictures in a book, forget it.") But he doesn't seem much for writing, either. Die-hard fans will...
...stay focused during your shows with stuff like that happening and all these people up on stage with you? Sometimes it's intense. During the actual performance, I kind of just glue my eyes on the screen and there's so much going on around me it's almost like half the time is spent just doing damage control, making sure things aren't being broken, and half the time focusing on clicking the mouse every ten seconds...
...band name. I just thought it would be the most inappropriate name for the music community that I was involved with. And some people really hated it. I was playing with some really serious academic laptop musician, and he'd play first and sit there and stare at his screen and people would stroke their chins and take notes. And then I get up there and I have a pre-recorded introduction and outfit changes. So yeah, a lot of people hated...
...Harvard-based organization seeking to develop ways to screen loan applicants in developing nations received a grant from the philanthropic arm of the search engine giant Google on Thursday...