Today's 3rd & Fairfax podcast from the Writers Guild of America has an interview with screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszweski. The team has had a long career writing well-regard films often based on real-life events and people. Most recently, they've written The People vs. O.J. Simpson, but their earlier credits include Man on the Moon (about Andy Kaufman), Ed Wood, Big Eyes (about painter Margaret Keane), and The People vs. Larry Flynt. They also wrote the Problem Child series of comedies, and co-wrote Agent Cody Banks and the thriller 1408. Also, Scott Alexander played softball with him in a weekend league, though for some reason that's not on his resume.
The podcast includes a discussion about credit arbitration, for thems what are interested in such things.
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A bit more on Garry Shandling. Here is a touching, interesting monologue by Conan O'Brien last night about his close friendship with Shandling that overlapped at an important time in Conan's life with a little-known story, along with a memorable video. This evening on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, which reruns on the Antenna TV channel, they are running the first appearance on the show by Garry Shandling, who passed away yesterday at age 66.. The time will vary depending on your time zone, but in Los Angeles it's on at 8 PM and repeats at 11 PM.
You can find what channel Antenna TV airs in your location by checking here, on the website's, Channel Finder. Just enter your area code in the Search box. "She helped create ISIS. Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of ISIS.”
-- former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani . In fairness, former Mayor Giuliani is right. Hillary Clinton "could" be considered that. Provided the person doing the considering is accepted as being wrong. And in equal fairness, in all other matters here, the former mayor is wrong. So, overall, his "wrong to right" quotient is pretty high. Like 100%. Given a margin of error of +/- 0. It's certainly possible that since there was no actual use of the concept "9/11" that Mr. Giuliani could employ, he got befuddled. That said, he has tended to get very twisted and befuddled when using "9/11" for pretty much everything, so I guess it can be excused, or at least understood. The former was appearing on "Fox News" at the time (shocking, I know, but yes, he really was...!). And after making his outlandish charge, he was asked by host Bill O’Reilly to explain why this all made her responsible. Mr. Giuliani did his best. Yes, I know that it was an uphill battle given the impossibility of the task, but at least he tried: “By being part of an administration that withdrew from Iraq. By being part of an administration that let [former Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki run Iraq into the ground, so you forced the Shiites to make a choice. By not intervening in Syria at the proper time. By being part of an administration that drew 12 lines in the sand and made a joke out of it.” Okay, let's look at the reality. This is really easy. First, the United States withdrew from Iraq under an agreement signed by George W. Bush. And second, by all accounts -- all, as in all -- ISIS was formed after Saddam Hussein was deposed, and his army had their guns taken away from them. They reformed as dissidents, and that group became ISIS. As I said, really easy. And the thing is, not only does this show clearly that in No Way could Hillary Clinton be considered a "founding member of ISIS" and having "helped create ISIS" -- in fact (really), but Mr. Giuliani's own logic, it is George W. Bush who "helped create ISIS" and "could be considered a founding member of ISIS." To be clear, George W. Bush is not a founding member of ISIS, nor can he be considered so (unless one wants to continue the Giuliani Theorem of Wrongness), although Mr. W. Bush's actions did help in creating in. But I'm just using Rudy Giuliani's logic here. If "logic" can be considered the right word. Sometimes you just want to give Rudy Giuliani a big hug and say, "Yes, yes, I know you thought you were going to be president one day, and it just didn't come remotely close to happening, and so you're really sad about it and pretty bitter, but you'll be okay. Especially if you remember the admonition of the man who can be considered the founder of your own party, Abraham Lincoln." "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak and remove all doubt." Maybe that should have been the Quote of the Day...
I sent this out last week --
It was not just meant as a quip, but underneath it all, an actual question. And so, it was with a certain amount of pleasure that three days ago, a news story was released that, shock of shock, the FBI says it might not need Apple's participation at all to unlock the cell phone in question. Instead, an outside source has provided law enforcement officials with a technique that might provide it with the access it wants.
"Testing is required to determine whether it is a viable method that will not compromise data on Farook's iPhone," lawyers for the Justice Department wrote to the court, in requested a postpone a hearing their motion. "If the method is viable, it should eliminate the need for the assistance from Apple Inc. set forth in the All Writs Act Order in this case." Gee, who would have guessed??! Greetings from the tropical Windy City, where lush breezes blow. It is 32-degrees today and snowing. Yes. Snowing. Not much, but still... It's March 24, and the baseball season starts in 10 days. You're really not looking for any snow. "Not much": doesn't figure into the equation. As you might imagine, the Elves taking care of the homestead are laughing their heads off. Sure, it's easy to laugh when you're warm and snug. It's 72-degrees in Los Angeles at the moment. But you can't ice skate or ski there. And if you get an ice cream cone and go out for a walk, it will melt. And the air is crisp here and invigorating. So, all in all, it's fine. Just nippy. And snowy. |
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