Category: About Writing
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Anderson Versus Stallone
This is the story of Timothy Burton Anderson, who in 1986 sued Sylvester Stallone and MGM/UA because, he argued, they had stolen his idea for Rocky IV, and then failed to compensate him for it. A Utah screenwriter has filed a $105 million suit against Sylvester Stallone and officials of MGM/UA studios, claiming they stole…
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Thunk – First Chapter
It was time to die. She hadn’t had an idea in the longest while, and so it was definitely time to die. Plus, the clock had stopped. It used to tick, she knew that. And she knew it because she’d made it. She’d made a lot of things in her lifetime, too many to count.…
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Variations On A Theme
Let’s have a look at two sketches, completely independent to one another, written an ocean apart, but which demonstrate very well how two people can arrive at almost exactly the same idea. Here’s the first, from an 1989 episode of The Kids In The Hall. And here’s the second, from A Bit Of Fry And…
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How To Write A Smith And Jones Head To Head
I’ll be honest, I bought this used book under the impression that it was a collection of sketch scripts, and put it aside to read later. I’ve just opened it, and obviously, it’s just transcripts of Smith & Jones’ Head To Heads. Hence the title. I’m a moron. It’s a little disappointing, as I have…
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Tom Hanks’ Fly Is Open
The brain often has nostalgic bouts for informative times, and last night as I watched a film featuring Tea Leoni, my mind started wandering back to the late nineties, when I would gorge myself into the dawn hours each night on The Paramount Comedy Channel. It took me a moment to realise this was because…
