Word: specs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much because I'm not very good at it," Callahan said. "I try to get it done on the field. If you're whipping people on the field, the guys will see that and that gets more 'spec' than stumbling over words...
...much because I'm not very good at it," Callahan said. "I try to get it done on the field. If you're whipping people on the field, the guys will see that and that gets more 'spec' than stumbling over words...
Callahan was first and foremost a basketball player until he got to Harvard. He played some football, but hated being placed on the line "with all the slow uncoordinated guys"--the guys who got no 'spec...
...Pittsburgh native, Black, 28, had earned $400,000 for writing Lethal Weapon. He spent four months holed up in a cabin to write Boy Scout, an action mystery in which a private eye and a retired football player team up to solve a murder. Black wrote the script "on spec," meaning on a speculative basis with no studio commission, a status that entitled him to shop it around for the highest price. The bidding started with an offer of $850,000 from 20th Century Fox and escalated until Carolco Pictures reached a top bid of $2.25 million. But the screenwriter...