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There are also reasons for consumers to support the guild. Writers will never replace directors in supplying the creative vision for a movie, but allowing the writers to take greater part in the collaborative movie-making effort will make movies less formulaic and place more emphasis on well-written films rather than cookie-cutter entertainment. Writers in all fields deserve more credit than they currently receive, and the last writers’ strike in 1988 failed to achieve these goals. A stronger emphasis on good writing will lead to better movies...
...official CBGB web site for pictures and Hilly Kristal's own serialized testimony. Link from there to an online edition of Mojo Magazine from the U.K. for the most coherent and well-written history of early punk that I've seen anywhere...
Perlstein’s attention to detail is part of that resurrection. Amusing anecdotes appear often throughout the book, helping along a text which, while well-written, could have been significantly shorter and just as effective. If a politician was militant and conservative in the postwar era, the reader quickly learns, then he was automatically labeled another “Hitler.” While driving to work, Charlton Heston suddenly converts to Goldwaterism. Writes Perlstein, “Looking up at an ‘In Your Heart, You Know He’s Right’ billboard...
...shape of the universe provides a surprising amount of interesting information to those of us who have never taken an astronomy course. And he gives what could have become a tired “is my waking life a dream?” sketch an abnormal punch with his well-written description of his dreamed identity as a butterfly—a dream he describes as so intense and vivid that he was left unsure whether he was a man or an insect upon waking...
There is pleasure in a well-written paper. There is pleasure in balancing a complex equation. But there are other pleasures in life. And they are just as important. Maybe just for an hour, maybe just for a day, students need to dream about a world with seasonal pleasures in addition to the constant backdrop of work. We too can be the Expos, even if our pleasure is similarly fleeting...