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...when Brooks was hot, the spillage could scald people. "He would spew whole runs of dialogue and scenes," recalls David Lloyd, the brilliant comic dramatist who provided many of the best Mary Tyler Moore scripts, "and expect somebody to have taken it down. And if people lost the key words, he'd glower murderously at them. More than one secretary was reduced to tears." Brooks could find script ideas anywhere, as Lloyd recalls from the days of the MTM spin-off Lou Grant: "We were at a story conference, and I didn't have an idea in the world...
Winger senses a mystical bond between her reel and real lives. "I don't know what comes first, the life or the art," she says, "but I think the life does. I feel it coming on, and boom! a script appears. Always it works that way. I had just endured two horrible deaths of dear friends from cancer, and then Shadowlands appeared. It's really sort of magical. If it stops being like this...
...Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points is you can hack...
...productive period of his life and the beginning of an expedition into an exciting but uncertain future. Last year, after months of deliberation, Collins left his faculty post at the University of Michigan Medical School to lead the Human Genome Project, an audacious effort to decipher the complete genetic script contained in human cells. Collins considered it the most important under taking in the history of biological research. He was moving from classroom gigs to the big show...
...taught at a nearby women's college. His mother, who educated him at home until he was nine, wrote plays, which were performed at a small theater the couple started in an oak grove on their farm. "When Francis was seven," his father recalls, "he wrote a full script for The Wizard of Oz and directed its performance." He played bluegrass and Bach on the pump organ and guitar, and he would spend hours pondering the consequences of dividing numbers by zero...