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Marcia & Lorenzo are real cool geezers
![WHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when "Michael Clayton" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. "It was terrific," he said. "I sent it to George [Clooney] right away." On Ain't It Cool News, Wes Anderson made a point of singling out a review of his film "Darjeeling Limited" from the same YouTube site.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-12/34506376-31152404.jpg "WHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when "Michael Clayton\" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. \"It was terrific,\" he said. \"I sent it to George [Clooney] right away.\" On Ain't It Cool News, Wes Anderson made a point of singling out a review of his film \"Darjeeling Limited\" from the same YouTube site.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWHEN was the last time you heard anyone get excited about a new film critic? That was my reaction when "Michael Clayton" director Tony Gilroy began raving to me about the review he'd seen on YouTube. "It was terrific," he said. "I sent it to George...Tags: Arts and Culture, YouTube, Paul Newman, Michael Clayton (movie), Tony Gilroy
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Thurber's world of wonders
![You don't hear much about James Thurber (1894-1961) anymore, and it's not just because the glory days of the New Yorker as a humor magazine are many decades in the past. His work is perennially in print, and his "Writings and Drawings" have merited a Library of America edition. But Thurber aficionados do not present a united front because usually people are devoted to a single aspect of Thurber's comic genius: his dogs, noble animals carrying on with dignity in a world gone mad; the stories in his hilarious gem of a Midwestern memoir, "My Life and Hard Times"; his cartoon characters, brilliantly described by Neil Gaiman as "lumpy men and women who looked like they were made of cloth, all puzzled and henpecked and aggrieved." We Thurberites would need a convention to honor all our different passions.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-07/41241870-25181021.gif "You don't hear much about James Thurber (1894-1961) anymore, and it's not just because the glory days of the New Yorker as a humor magazine are many decades in the past. His work is perennially in print, and his "Writings and Drawings\" have merited a Library of America edition. But Thurber aficionados do not present a united front because usually people are devoted to a single aspect of Thurber's comic genius: his dogs, noble animals carrying on with dignity in a world gone mad; the stories in his hilarious gem of a Midwestern memoir, \"My Life and Hard Times\"; his cartoon characters, brilliantly described by Neil Gaiman as \"lumpy men and women who looked like they were made of cloth, all puzzled and henpecked and aggrieved.\" We Thurberites would need a convention to honor all our different passions.")
You don't hear much about James Thurber (1894-1961) anymore, and it's not just because the glory days of the New Yorker as a humor magazine are many decades in the past. His work is perennially in print, and his "Writings and Drawings" have merited a...Tags: Gaming, Brain, Cartoons, Cinderella (fictional character), Fiction
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Guild sets stage for key talks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAs some of Hollywood's biggest screenwriters dined on prime rib and salmon in May at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, David Young's mind was on pie. Not the edible kind, but the one full of revenue that Hollywood studios and networks divide up. In Young's...Tags: California, Employees, Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Career and Workplace, Viacom Inc.
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The Studio Report Card: Warner Bros.
It's become a tradition at this time of year, first in my column, and now in my blog, to grade the major movie studios on their performance over the course of the year. The Studio Report Card started as a way to get a handle on how the business works, but...Tags: Body of Lies (movie), Sony Corp., Finance, Sex and the City (movie), Gran Torino (movie)
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Writers Guild Dubs 'Casablanca' Top Screenplay
Zap2It.comJulius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch's "Casablanca" script, adapted from the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison, has been saluted as the greatest screenplay ever by the members of the Writers Guild of America. The...Tags: Francis Ford Coppola, Career and Workplace, Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Altman, Casablanca (movie)
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If You're Out by Monday, Never Ask Why
Times Staff WriterIn 1987 I set out by car from Washington, D.C., for a new career in Hollywood, a place I knew very little about. I had a job waiting there as a staff writer on "Hill Street Blues," and what I didn't know I was sure I could find out. I had heard that the...Tags: Jeff Lewis, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), San Bernardino (San Bernardino, California), Hill Street Blues (tv program), Washington, DC
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'Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid'
Zap2It.comThe creative team behind "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" agonized over the movie's tone, terrified that if audiences went too much for the comedy, the emotional gravity of the story would get lost. They rewrote, reedited and reimagined before the...Tags: Steve McQueen, Arts and Culture, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Butch Cassidy
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'The Princess Bride: Buttercup Edition'
Zap2It.comFor a movie that was not a very big hit in theaters, "The Princess Bride" has enjoyed as long and fruitful a life on video as just about any film of the past 20 years. That might explain why the third DVD version of the movie, based on Oscar-winning...Tags: Robin Wright, Christopher Guest, Sony Corp., Norman Jewison, Cary Elwes
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'All the President's Men' -- Two-Disc Special Edition
Zap2It.comOf the wave of paranoid thrillers that hit theaters in the 1970s -- like "The Conversation" or "Three Days of the Condor" or "The Parallax View" -- "All the President's Men" was among the best. Every bit as breathless, pulse-pounding and twisted as its...Tags: Ned Beatty, Alan J Pakula, Robert Redford, Jason Robards, Entertainment
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Former gambler now in the chips
Special to The TimesScriptland is a new weekly feature on the work and professional lives of screenwriters. * There are few bets with longer odds than making a living as a screenwriter. And then there's Allan Loeb. A compulsive gambler since age 10, he's currently riding...Tags: Addiction, Paddy Chayefsky, Contracts, Sony Corp., Tourism and Leisure
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The 101 Greatest Screenplays
Zap2It.comWhat do you think of the WGA list? ++++++++++++++++++++ || 1. || CASABLANCA Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Based on the play "Everybody Comes to Rick's" by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison || || 2. || THE GODFATHER...Tags: Michael Wilson, Tom Stoppard, Paddy Chayefsky, Michel Gondry, Career and Workplace
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What dark horse will be next 'Sunshine'?
Times Staff WriterThough the Sundance Film Festival takes understandable pains to distance itself from Hollywood, it becomes more apparent every year that William Goldman's great rule of studio filmmaking applies to the independent world as well: Nobody knows anything....Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Arts and Culture, Horse (animal), Dakota Fanning, Utah
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