In 1987, I was a struggling screenwriter living with two friends in a Hancock Park…
In 1943, writer/director Billy Wilder wanted to make a gritty film noir. He was under…
In 1946, the Allies had just won the war and the United Nations was a brand new entity. Screenwriter Carl Foreman…
Shane Black’s story is well known. At age 22 he wrote Lethal Weapon, giving new life to the…
In the late 1980s I was a Hollywood script reader. I worked for studios, independent producers and screenwriters…
Herman Mankiewicz was a tough-talking, wisecracking screenwriter who despised sentimentality. When Warner…
The following passages were taken from my 1989 journal as I struggled to survive as a…
In the late 1980s I was a script reader for Paramount Pictures. I’d drive to the studio on Monday…