Columns
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Julian Assange Q&A Just One Highlight at Latest Filmfest DC
Guest blog: 27th installment of the festival also screened Deepa Mehta's adaptation of Salman Rushdie's "Midnight Children"
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3 Steps to Writing Good Historical Fiction
Guest blog: Many writers do not understand the power of ruminating and spending time at the pre-writing phase, what I call the “Golden Years”
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‘Game of Thones,’ ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Chronicles of Narnia’: Where Are All The American Fantasy Characters?
Guest blog: The Fantasy novel realm is lacking American stories and American characters
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Liam Neeson Takes ‘Walk Among the Tombstones’
Actor Liam Neeson is on novelist Lawrence Block's mind a lot these days. The New York novelist is chock-a-block with anticipation as one of his novels, "A Walk Among the Tombstones," is being filmed on the streets of Manhattan, and Neeson is starring as the character Matthew Scudder. Recently, Block was invited by the producers…
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The Jackie Robinson You Won’t See in ’42’
Guest blog: He made history breaking baseball’s color barrier, but off the field he often found himself on the wrong side of history
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California Politics Leave Hollywood and Silicon Beach Vulnerable
Guest blog: California residents and its elected officials consider online gambling
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How to Watch ‘Mad Men’ Season 6 Without Losing Your Mind
Guest blog: With only two season left, I am determined to manage my viewing to eliminate the show's maddening highs and lows
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If Only the Supreme Court Would Watch ‘Any Day Now’
Guest Blog: That film about same-sex marriage might change minds, as "Blue Caprice" could on gun control
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How MSNBC’s ‘The Cycle’ Won Me Over (Video)
Guest blog: A former NBC correspondent on why her initial criticism and dislike of the political chatfest have turned into admiration and respect.
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Don Payne Was a Role Model for Me in This Business
Guest blog: It meant a lot to me that someone of his stature believed in me as a writer — he had a hugely successful career but always took time
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A Producer’s Secret: Take Every Opportunity That’s Presented
Guest blog: If you’re having a smooth experience on a film, then you are not pushing things far enough
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Amanda Knox Acquittal Retrial: Injustice, Italian Style
GUEST BLOG: With Amanda Knox retrial, Italian prosecutors are getting another chance to perpetuate their original miscarriage of justice
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What Kind of Culture Accepts Media Violence Toward Women?
Guest Blog: It's time to put an end to the exploitive use of photographs of women to sell anything and everything
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Cheering Up Peter Sellers Wasn’t as Easy as Chaplin Cheering Up Picasso
Guest blog: Every morning as Pablo lathered his face for shaving, he would trace with his finger in the billowing cream the enormous lips, the path of tears oozing out of each eye — the stigmata of the professional clown
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Urge the City to Pass Policies to Make it Easier for All Filmmakers to Work
Guest blog: How did we allow runaway production to soar to such levels that film companies like the legendary VFX house Rhythm & Hues would go bankrupt?