Saturday Hot Links
Time for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The Rare Ernest Hemingway Interviews Edition!
Why we eat what we eat on Thanksgiving.
Seriously, you don’t want to know the average amount of calories in a Thanksgiving meal.
Why does turkey make you tired.
7 overlooked Thanksgiving rituals.
A history of American Presidential turkey pardoning.
The 8 most awkward Thanksgiving dinner scenes in movie history [except Pieces of April].
What’s on the menu in TV writers rooms.
More food issues with Hollywood TV writers.
How cereal transformed American culture.
5 movies where Twinkees played a supporting role
Will 35mm film dead, will classic movies ever look the same again.
Can you crack the pigeon’s second world war code?
Here are the 5 type of rom-com movie posters.
Could there be a gene that predicts the time of death down to the hour?
Steven Spielberg offered to direct a James Bond movie… and was turned down.
More Spielberg: He delivered the keynote address at Gettysburg this week.
Amazing story of the 26-second Zapruder JFK assassination footage.
The day after JFK’s assassination, his secretary wrote down this list of suspects.
1969 Roger Ebert interview with Alfred Hitchcock.
Here’s what we know about the Mars rover mystery discovery.
50 comic-book movies that must never happen.
The daily routines of notable writers.
11 amazing writers you don’t know about yet.
10 great late literary bloomers.
Hayao Miyazaki’s next movie has a name: The Wind Rises.
A map of the universe by Rene Descartes.
TotalFilm: 50 most depressing happy endings.
Is it true what they say about guys with big feet?
Up balloon house recreated in real life.
TCM makes a deal for Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” interviews.
8 U.S. presidents with statues abroad.
Anime film draws Japan’s biggest box office opening of the year.
How much rodent filth does the FDA allow in food products?
Sam Mendes has an idea for James Bond 24. Let me guess: An homage to The Dark Knight Rises.
6 hilarious videos of kids tasting extreme flavors for the first time.
Thanks to Twilight, Lionsgate is the first indie studio to hit $1B in domestic B.O. in one year.
As Twilight fades, a guide to Hollywood’s young adult franchises.
How Twilight and Harry Potter are radically different.
Fugitive antivirus founder John McAfee is blogging while he’s on the run.
Speaking of which James Franco took 2nd place in a blogging competition.
Evidence that Albert Einsteins’ brain was superior to yours.
Mike Myers completes a draft of the script for Wayne’s World 3.
Science explains why some people are attracted to jerks.
Tolkien estates sues Warner Bros. over Lord of the Rings slot machines.
How we make pencils.
Nuts! Brad Bird takes himself out of consideration to direct Star Wars: Episode VII.
The bulletproof super material that’s paper-thin.
7 problems with the movie industry.
Kill the password: Why a string of characters can’t protect us anymore.
The 11 worst sounds in the world. For a screenwriter, it’s one word: “Pass.”
What fairy tales can teach you about leadership.
$500M. That’s how much “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” did in sales on its first day of release.
Using just 10% of your brain? Think again!
Creativity Post: Online schools storm the ivory tower.
Finally an article on Hollywood’s tracking boards.
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: Beginning a week from Monday (December 3), I will be offering the 8th and final session of the Core courses in 2012. The class is Core VIII: Time, a 1-week online screenwriting class.
Time is a mystery and no more so than in a movie. Centuries can pass in a matter of cinematic minutes. Conversely a single moment can stretch on for pages. This 1-week online screenwriting class helps writers develop a cinematic understanding of time and how to use narrative devices like flashbacks, montage, and much more.
- You will learn to get in touch with your story’s inner clock and see how that influences every choice you make when writing your script’s scenes.
- You will put to use practical tips by workshopping some of your own script scenes, helping you get a handle on time management.
Six lectures written by Scott Myers
Special insider tips
Daily forum Q&As
Workshop writing assignments with instructor and class feedback.
A 90-minute live teleconference between instructor and class members.
I won’t be offering the individual Core classes again until Spring 2013, so enroll now in this unique and important class.