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Rikke & Hanne Kesten wrote:

> What was true in Chandler's time and before, and is true with a
> vengeance even now is that in Hollywood the play is not the thing at
> all.  It is the rewrite of the rewrite of the play that is the thing.
> Which would, no doubt, have been news to Shakespeare. (You remember
> Shakespeare.  He was that schmuck with a quill.)"
> 
> (From Larry Gelbart's review of Dunne's "MONSTER: Living Off the Big
> Screen.")
> 
> That book sounds like a good, informative read.
> --steve kesten

Last night on BRAVO there was a show called "Expose" about
screenwriting.  Writers, re-writers, directors, and producers were
interviewed.  It is nothing if not a <collaborative> effort.  Pretty
much everyone concluded by saying that if you don't want your writing
fucked with, write a novel.  (Guess they never heard of editors and
publishing houses....)

Jerry Silverman
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