Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Johnson says he feels most social service is by its nature political, although people involved might not think so. "If a counselor just has a good way to teach the kids to read and write, that's political. That's revolutionary because keeping them ignorant is oppressive," Johnson says...
...this summer, a year after some professors first raised concerns that some write-ups were too subjective for a University-sponsored publication, things changed...
...checking over the write-ups just two weeks before the scheduled conclusion of production, a University Hall official this summer approached the editors of the CUE Guide with what administrators say was a list of "suggestions...
...expensive film. A rewrite and a "polish" can bring the high-budget price to $61,548, but a writer who has been around commands a good deal more, and fees can rise steadily with each unproduced script. Says a New York author who has sold three scripts: "If you write five a year--I get more offers than that--you can make close to $700,000." If you are at the top of the profession, you can get $850,000 for a single unused screenplay, as William Goldman reportedly did from ABC Motion Pictures...
...years in Hollywood. "If you look at the amount of money I earn a year, I am successful," he says. "But if you look at the row of unproduced scripts on the shelf, I feel a failure. The money is nice, but the real point was always to write a story and watch it in the theater and eat popcorn...