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...BURNS, 27, is living the dream of every aspiring director from lower Manhattan to L.A. A film-school graduate and former production assistant on Entertainment Tonight (he quit last month), Burns spent five years sending his script for The Brothers McMullen to agents and distributors who would not return his phone calls. So he raised a few hundred thousand dollars, got nonprofessional actors to work for free and made the film himself. Last week the comedy about an Irish-American family won the grand jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival. But for Burns the highlight of the event...
...steal as much money as you can! Advice to young filmmakers? I would say just keep going. It's got to start with the written word. If you have a good script, and you believe enough in it to make the sacrifices to get it made, there's a chance you'll have something. But it's got to start with the written word. Everything else is secondary. You've got to have a great story...
...people who are interested in writing professionally have gravitated to this Expos teacher. Former Lampoon president and Crimson editor John Abound III '95 gushes, "He's a little secret treasure each generation of Lampoon people hears about. People discovered him as a funny and intelligent person to write a script with. He's a man of many faces and more mysteries...
Seniors approach Gewanter with projects which range from Frasier scripts to more abstract literary endeavors. One student wanted to write a script based on "The Three Stooges of the Apocalypse: Larry, Curly, and Death...
...along the way. Presumably that will be the case with Seven Guitars. A production at Boston's Huntington Theatre is already planned for this fall. One of the benefits of a staging as skillful as the Goodman's is that it can reveal all that's wrong with a script. Wilson is a prodigious rewriter: he was revising Seven Guitars as late as three days before it opened. As it moves around the country, he will surely be able to fathom its problems and remedy them. Given all that's right with the play, it deserves no less...