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...stunning debut by an unpublished author who mailed his manuscript in on spec, Night Fisher candidly exposes the lives of the young and bored in Hawaii. Going to a prep school his single father can't really afford, the lonely Loren Foster tries to keep up with his AP classes but becomes more interested in hanging out with his ne'r-do-well pal and tweaking on crystal meth. While filling the story with atmospheric details like Hawaiian slang ("baku" for meth; "haole" for a non-native), Johnson's remarkably confident artwork drains the lush world of its color, leaving...
...Kushner's concerns about formatting a screenplay ("I said, 'Well, there's a program called Scriptor--put it on your laptop and you don't have to worry about that again'"), Kushner said he would try a few scenes. They became a 300-page first draft, written largely on spec, after which he and Spielberg happily collaborated for a little more than a year to complete the script. "You speak the words, and I'll provide the pictures," Spielberg remembers saying. "It was a lot of e-mails and arguments on the phone," Kushner says, "and an exciting amount...
...studio executive, we oversee and shepherd the process from start to finish. In general, the movie-making process starts with finding and developing ideas. We meet with writers and producers to hear pitches, read scripts that have been written on spec, or come up with ideas of our own and hire writers to work on them. During the development process, we meet frequently with the writers to brainstorm ideas and give notes on drafts. Sometimes we might need to find and bring additional writers onto a project. Once the script gets green light, we’ll find a director...
...University of Pennsylvania, that team is called the Social Planning and Events Committee (SPEC), and its student members have full flexibility with their funds. Every year, the SPEC receives a lump sum of half a million dollars from the University, says senior Thomas P. Kurland, SPEC’s concert director. Kurland says $300,000 of that is spent on the spring weekend—10 times the amount the UC was ready to set aside for the Snoop Dogg concert...
...table from a writer for The West Wing. Writing for television has always been an interest of mine and I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak openly about my future options with someone who was well-established in Hollywood. He gave me advice on writing viable spec scripts and pointed me in the right direction for future endeavors...