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...Browne. The network has contracted with Miami Dade College, which was giving English courses to Telemundo's Spanish-speaking employees, to offer a free year of telenovela-scriptwriting classes. Of nearly 4,400 applicants from 26 countries, including Lithuania and Japan, 36 students were selected. They will develop, write and produce segments with actors, and when the course is over, they will have a good shot at a network job. Telenovelas typically last only six months, so there will be plenty of potential job openings. And training writers is only the first step. Browne envisions classes that will teach producing...
Ball's, Cherry's and Murphy's dramas are often compared to soap operas, which can often be code for "too girly." Says Cherry, whose writing staff has five gays and six straights: "We push the boundaries in our lives by being gay. When we write, we are perfectly willing to write extreme behavior." Ilene Chaiken, the lesbian writer and creator of The L Word, theorizes that gay men and women inevitably experience love as heightened drama. "One of the things that always make for a great love story is the obstacles," she says. "These writers are bringing to these...
...MORE IMPORTANT ISSUE IS WHAT parents hate about teachers.I hate teachers who cannot spell or write. I hate the fact that these illiterate underachievers are responsible for teaching and evaluating my children. I hate the fact that these teachers receive the support of a union that makes the Teamsters look like wimps. I hate the fact that teachers apparently wish to claim all the credit for good students but blame parents for bad students. And I hate the mere notion that teachers are even asked what they hate about parents...
...vivacious blond, Kingsbury, 41, lives in Vancouver, Wash., with her husband Donald and their six children. She says she always wanted to write and once imagined being "the next Danielle Steel." But, wouldn't you know, love intervened. Raised Catholic, Kingsbury became born again in her 20s after she met Donald. So when she wrote her first novel, in 1997, it took on a decidedly Christian cast...
...Maine Senator Susan Collins, one of the Republican moderates who would likely play a role in any compromise on Social Security, hasn't publicly committed to any plan. She says Congress should spend the year looking at the program and then try to write legislation, an unlikely scenario since 2006 is an election year. But the Senator, who didn't hold any town halls because she was traveling to Iraq and Afghanistan over the recess as part of her service on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said she has already met two fans of the President's ideas. While visiting...