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...blog - its purpose is to entertain. At the same time, there are a couple more subtle things happening. One is that the actual way people talk is very different than the way we think people talk. When you're watching a TV show like Friends, the dialogue from the script is nothing like the way people actually talk to one another - random and full of non-sequiturs. OHinNY tries to capture authentic speech, diction and syntax, making it a fun, living record of how people talk. Imagine if OHinNY existed in 1906... The blog is an interesting contribution...
FUNNY, HE NEVER SEEMED SOBER Got a good script for a wisecracking fiftysomething with a weakness for schmaltz? California A.A. meetings might be the best place to shop it. In the wake of Mel Gibson's clumsy tumble off the wagon, ROBIN WILLIAMS has announced that "after 20 years of sobriety," he "found himself drinking again and has decided to take proactive measures to deal with this for his own well-being and the well-being of his family." The hyperactive comic, who has three movies due this fall, "looks forward to returning to work," his spokeswoman said. Audiences that...
...conflict, and both deal with the immediate response to the al-Qaeda assault. Paul Greengrass' United 93, released in April, dramatized the commotion and heroism on the one hijacked plane that didn't reach its landmark target. Now Oliver Stone has directed World Trade Center, Andrea Berloff's script about two Port Authority cops who were among the last of 20 people saved from the Twin Towers wreckage...
...Generics: A good number of patients still ask for "the good stuff" - the actual brand name drug - not the generic forms. By law the pharmacy has to give you the far cheaper generic pill unless the doc writes "DAW" (Dispense As Written) in the little box on the script. It's easy for the doctor to do this - it takes less time and effort to write the three letters than to convince you you're wasting money. I've never seen any significant difference between the generic and branded versions of the drugs I prescribe. Neither have the colleagues...
...these men, it’s hard to say what actually happened and what’s Hollywood fiction, but the moment fireballs go whizzing past Jimeno’s face (against gravity, no less), I begin to wonder how many liberties Berloff took with her script...