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Re: RARA-AVIS: Chandler quoted...
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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