SUPERNOVAS Hits Comic-Con!

Hi - Terry here. Although Alex and I are both professional screenwriters, we generally shy away from self-promoting on this site. And although I'm admittedly doing that this time, I'll keep it brief. Promise! And drum roll.... Supernovas, the comic series I've been working on for some time has launched both online in a digital format, and via a 12-page special first print issue which will debut at the San Diego Comic-Con this week.Supernovas is the...

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DVD Playhouse--July 2011

DVD PLAYHOUSE—JULY 2011By Allen GardnerTHE MUSIC ROOM (Criterion) Satyajit Ray’s 1958 masterpiece looks at the life of a fallen aristocrat as a metaphor for an India that is not only becoming Westernized, but modernized technologically and culturally beyond recognition. When the beloved music room, where he has hosted lavish concerts in the past, starts falling into disrepair as attendance drops steadily, the man realizes his way of life is vanishing....

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A Screenwriter's Rant

By Alex Simon I wrote this to an acquaintance who asked me to look over a treatment some friends of hers had written, which she suspected was pretty bad. She asked for "blunt honesty," and I delivered, with an extra dollop of candor about what it feels like, from a writer's POV, when people think of us, and our profession, as not being real "work," but something one can approach casually. My intended 1-2 paragraph reply turned into a real rant. Thought...

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