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Shane Black Confronts Your Fears
I had the great good fortune to have screenwriter/director Shane Black visit my Writing the Character-Driven Screenplay class this past week.  The creator of the Lethal Weapon franchise, he also wrote The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and the by-now beloved cult fave Kiss ...
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Yakiimo
"We were in Japan in the wintertime, and we heard this... sound in the night.  We were in Shimoda, which is this tiny little town on the coastline.  And there was this calling, singing in the night..." Simone sings, a plaintive call in a low, sweetly lonely tone: " ...
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From Dark to Dawn
In the third season finale of Mad Men , Don Draper, the walking quintessence of ad-manology, has to pitch his formerly taken for granted creative exec Peggy on staying with him, and he tells her why he needs her: There are people out there who buy things, people like you and me.  And ...
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Man at Work
  Somehow, Living the RomCom got nearly to the end of this year without once mentioning Michael Jackson - no small feat, given the blitzkrieg of overkill information we've been subjected to since his demise this past June (I know, you're thinking: Wait, wait - Michael Jackson died?! ...
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