UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF EINSTEIN
"'Move in with me,' he says.
She protests that he is already married.
'I love Mozart and Bach,' Einstein says. 'Why can't I love you and Elsa?'
Frustrated, she declares that he might know a lot about the universe, but nothing about people."
His love of Mozart is obvious here.
B2
HOLLYWOOD WRITERS GAUGE SUPPORT FOR A STRIKE, IN A POSSIBLE RERUN OF 2007
"Why is it always the writers who go on strike?
As a rule, the directors are well paid and feel valued by entertainment companies, and the actors' union can be a bag of infighting cats. That leaves the writers.
According to historians, the friction between 'scribes' and studios dates to the end of the silent film era. Studios suddenly needed writers to provide witty dialogue, so they imported wordsmiths from New York. But they treated writers -- or at least many writers have felt this way ever since -- as expendable stenographers.
Put another way, writers see their craft as artistic expression. For the most part, studios see it as commerce."
When is the last time you saw a film with a really bad script and thought you had seen a great film?
OTOH, do you think that Herman J. Mankiewicz had nothing to do with the success of Citizen Kane?
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