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• writer-director Joel Hopkins made Last Chance Harvey to recreate the chemistry he had seen between actors Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman in a theatre production?
• writer-director Zoe Cassavetes appeared in her late father's film Minnie and Moskowitz at the age of one?
• writer-director Bruce A. Evans described directing his first film in 15 years, Mr. Brooks, as "like riding a bicycle"?
• writer-director Brian Dannelly was expelled from the first grade for hitting a nun at his Catholic elementary school?
• television writer Bernie West, creator of The Jeffersons, described his experience as a Borscht Belt comedian saying, "Everything we did may not have been original, but what we stole was good!"?
• television writer Josh Senter rarely watched television until he was fourteen because of his parents' fundamental Christian beliefs?
• Ronald Bass, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Rain Man, taught himself to read by the age of three?
• Vienna Fingers cookies, first sold in 1915, were mentioned in American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon's 1965 play The Odd Couple?
• in filmmaking, a screenwriter usually creates a production package that they hand out during their pitch, which generally includes a plot synopsis and budgeting information on their idea?
• the 2008 Hindi comedy film C Kkompany marks the directorial debut of scriptwriter Sachin Yardi?
• former professional boxer Giichi Nishihara was the writer-director of such Japanese cult pink films of the 1960s and 1970s as Abnormal Reaction: Ecstasy and Grotesque Perverted Slaughter?
• after screenwriter Chuck Tatham's brother and writing partner Jamie quit their first job and returned to their hometown, Chuck went on to be nominated for two Emmys?
• Gigantic, a film about a single man deciding to adopt a baby, was inspired by writer–director Matt Aselton's childhood wish for his parents to adopt a baby from China?
• American film director Jim Fields recently wrote, produced and directed a documentary called Bugeaters?
• screenwriter Tim Calpin says he picked up most of his writing experience from the television series South Park, despite never being part of the writing staff?
• screenwriter Oliver Crawford worked to remove an anti-Communist loyalty oath from the membership application of the Writers Guild of America, a relic of the Hollywood blacklist era?
• Jamaican-born poet, playwright and screenwriter Evan Jones wrote the 1963 BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street in which Bob Dylan made his acting début?
• screenwriter Brad Falchuk tried to stand out in high school by wearing a tie every day and declaring himself a Republican?
• gay screenwriter Marco Pennette was outed in front of his parents on the People's Choice Awards red carpet by a colleague who asked him about his boyfriend?
• South Korean screenwriter and director Byeon Seung-wook spent five years working on the scenario for his 2006 directorial debut film, Solace?
• Albanian film director Dhimitër Anagnosti, winner of many national and international awards, is also the screenwriter of most of the films he directs?
• Jewish screenwriter Barry Levy has taught Hebrew at Temple Israel California in between writing jobs?
• screenwriter Dana Fox works with Diablo Cody and Lorene Scafaria in a writing group they call "The Fempire"?
• screenwriter Daniel Knauf's polio-afflicted father was the inspiration for his television series Carnivàle?
• screenwriter Jamie Linden interpreted his winning of US$5,000 on game show The Price Is Right as a sign to relocate to Hollywood, California?
• screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg originally aspired to be a dancer, and ended up writing the 2006 dance film Step Up?
• screenwriter Ian Brennan wrote the first draft of the musical comedy-drama Glee with the aid of Screenwriting for Dummies?
• screenwriter Gustin Nash was inspired to write the teen film Charlie Bartlett by a group of teenagers that he spent time with while working at a mall in Burbank, California?
• screenwriter Dorothy Ann Purser was nominated for seven awards and won two, including a Daytime Emmy?
• Academy Award nominated screenwriter Ivan Moffat was the grandson of Victorian actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree?