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...western almost anywhere. The better pulp magazines--Dime Western, Zane Grey's Western, Ten-Story Western--paid 2¢ a word, which, for a 5,000-word story, was 100 bucks. In the '50s, that wasn't too bad, and anyway, I had a day job at the time writing Chevrolet ads. I would get up in the morning at 5 and write fiction for two hours. I had a rule that I had to start writing before I put the water on for coffee, or else I might never...
...WRITE YOUR OWN SCREENPLAYS...
...would if I could just write a draft and hand it to them and say, "Here, shoot this." But you get into it with all these experts sitting around at the table, and they're all telling you, "Well, why doesn't he say this? Why doesn't he say that?" And then they all take off, and you sit there in your hotel room, writing the screenplay. That's no fun. This has got to be fun, or else it's not worth doing...
...real-life Pitt has done right by Shapiro. The actor's production company has optioned Shapiro's novel The Every Boy and signed Shapiro to write and direct the movie version. "My goal was to make a great documentary, not to get a job in Hollywood," Shapiro insists. "But it's not a bad by-product...
...stand nude. They tell him to bark like a dog and growl at pictures of terrorists. They hang pictures of scantily clad women around his neck. A female interrogator so annoys al-Qahtani that he tells his captors he wants to commit suicide and asks for a crayon to write a will. At one stage, an Arabic-speaking serviceman, posing as a fellow detainee, is brought to Camp X-Ray for a short stay in an effort to gain al-Qahtani's confidence. The log reports that al-Qahtani makes several comments to interrogators that imply...