They Want Me To Do Script Coverage - Part 2: I Am Your Audience

Ever wonder what happens when you or some other screenwriter sends a script to a production company, brimming with cherished hopes and dreams of seeing it turned into a movie? It gets sent to a schmuck like me, that's what. Then I, who have no personal investment in your story whatsoever, sit, scrutinize, and set it on fire before making the god-like decision regarding whether it is "to be or not to be" considered for production. And...

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Roger Ebert: Gone But Always "At the Movies"

Whenever someone asks who's most to blame for my obsession (or as I prefer to call it, my "healthy, permanent appreciation") for film and storytelling, I always pin it on Spielberg. Or Lucas. Or any one of a small handful of other magician-filmmakers who blew my mind in the '70s and '80s with visions of aliens and lightsabers and gun-toting archaeologists, and generally helped me survive puberty. For some reason, though, there's one guy I always...

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