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...This is the 21st book in the series. How have you come up with so many different plots? Part of what I do is keep charts of the books I've written, so I have a record of the gender of every killer, the gender of the victim, the motive for the crime and the nature of the climax - how does the book end? I also have a series of log lines for each book. In A Is for Alibi, Kinsey Milhone is hired to prove the innocence of a woman just out of prison for the murder...
...broad strokes, I take what is written in the script—it’s called the givens, what they give to you—and fill that out in terms of intellectual knowledge of what is needed in very basic terms. In other words, the basic general, rudimentary idea of what that is. Then you start filling out the emotions and the layers of the character, the heart and soul, the blood and guts, which is my favorite part. And some characters are different. I did a mini-series called “Mama Flora?...
With only written records from one side of the romance, the crew behind “Bright Star” had the challenge of making the movie into a story that encompassed both halves of the romance. In terms of research, “You only have his letters to Fanny. You don’t have much of Fanny from which to work,” explained Morris. But the film, which has opened to critical praise for both its story and its commitment to historical accuracy, has created a romance much from Brawne’s perspective...
...final illusion that really proved Wright to be a master magician. He took a $20 bill which had the name of a Pfoho resident written on it, turned it into one dollar bill, then opened a bag which contained an orange, peeled the orange, and revealed the twenty dollar bill with the student’s name on it. Wright received a standing ovation...
...visits of U.S. evangelicals who are involved with a movement that promotes Christianity's role in getting homosexuals to become "ex-gays" through prayer and faith. Ugandan supporters of the bill appear to be particularly impressed by the ideas of Scott Lively, a California conservative preacher who has written a book, The Pink Swastika, about what he calls the links between Nazism and a gay agenda for world domination, which, by itself, would have raised the anti-colonial sensitivities of Ugandan society. Says the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, an Episcopalian priest from Zambia who authored a recent report on anti...