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...Alexander uses guided imagery to help clients get back in touch with their creativity and reduce performance anxiety. "I help them visualize a comfortable, safe place," he says, "and we explore a forest, a meadow, a desert or the wide-open sky?symbols of the white page of a script or an empty screen. What locks people up is the feeling that they have to create something, which comes from the narcissistic need to be affirmed...
...that Hollywood is buying, the actor has leveraged his success by starting a production company and writing a script for a musical drama he would star in. "My stock just went up," he says. "I can sell it right away and make a little profit, or I can hold on to it. I believe in this company, so I'm not trading...
...informed me this wasn't a meeting. All sitcom writing, it turns out, is done by committee. One of the writers eventually says something that makes everybody laugh. Then Marco approves it, and a writers' assistant, who sits at a nearby desk and never talks, types it into the script, which appears on huge TVs on either side of our table. This, I was surprised to learn, is exactly how Shakespeare wrote...
...picture," says the cynical scenarist played by William Holden in Billy Wilder's 1950 Sunset Blvd. "They think the actors make it up as they go along." O.K., most actors don't write their own dialogue. But they are more than handsome lugs and ladies. They are the script's words made flesh, the director's dreams embodied. And for us people out there in the dark, actors are our best, our baddest, our deepest and most glamorous selves...
...things still on their wish list, such as an inflation provision in the minimum-wage hike, the right to buy cheaper prescription drugs from abroad and higher spending on education and health care for the poor. "We should be on the offensive and not reacting to Arnold's new script, which is designed to save his own job," says Phil Angelides, the state treasurer and another gubernatorial candidate...