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Showing posts with label scriptwriting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scriptwriting. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

What makes a good TV series?

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Bonanza, 4th Longest Running Series What makes a good television series? You probably already guessed that I would say writing. Some mi...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Can the Bloody Benders Revive Western Film?

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Bender General Store and Inn In the early 1870s, the Bloody Benders were a family of serial killers on the Kansas prairie. The four m...
Friday, April 5, 2013

Fan Letters are cool

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C arson McCullers to Henry Miller I always like to get fan letters. Some writers write for themselves, but I write to be read, so a ...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Django Unchained—Quentin Tarantino’s Does Spaghetti Western

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I like Tarantino movies and Westerns, so I expected to love Django Unchained .  I only liked it. It wasn’t bad; it just didn’t live up t...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Saddle Up ! Denver Post article on resurgence of Westerns on TV

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Joanne Ostrow writes a article summarizing television networks new fascination with the Western genre. "The rugged individualism of...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Hollywood—Get Real

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Hollywood must believe that the only way to draw us into a theater is to give Sherlock Holmes the glitter of James Bond, portray the Th...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Oscar Night Ramblings by Raymond Chandler

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Whenever the Oscars come around, I'm reminded of this article written by Raymond Chandler in March of 1948. By the way, in 1948, th...