Saturday Hot Links
Time for another installment of Saturday Hot Links!
This week: The Most Amazing Golf Shots Edition!
THR: Remembering Hollywood Superproducer Richard D. Zanuck.
The complete list of the 64th Emmy Award nominations.
Four animals that ran for mayor… and won!
Filmmakers magazine: 25 New Faces of Independent Film (2012).
Personal brain management: Ready for prime time?
The old adage, ‘Write what you know’. Hogwash!
Police search for American filmmaker missing in Canadian wilderness.
Watch a supercut of Richard Dreyfus laughing [video].
Infographic: Which summer 2012 movie superhero are you?
Half of bedtime children’s stories now read as E-books.
Aaron Sorkin cleaning house at “The Newsroom”.
Treating all students as gifted yields impressive academic results.
Christopher Nolan: Does not have a cellphone or email address.
The full names of 26 one-name celebrities.
Vulture: Guys, we do not need to remake Jumanji.
Microsoft reports 1st quarterly loss in its 26 year history.
The latest in the Bret Easton Ellis vs. Nikki Finke war.
10 things you don’t know about your dog.
TotalFilm: 50 most annoying movie brothers.
Butts, Balls and the C-word: What you can or can’t say on TV.
How to write an effective, nasty lawyer letter.
Lawrence of Arabia returning to movie theaters.
10 wonderful libraries repurposed from unused structures.
Comic-Con 2012 related: Why did one Marvel issue go from $60 to $6,000?
40 awesome tributes to “Breaking Bad.”
Robert Towne on Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps.
27 indisputable facts that everyone knows are true.
Flavorwire: 10 great web series you should be watching.
The neurobiology of human altruism.
31 bizarre foreign titles for American films. The English translation for the German title to K-9 was: “My partner with the cold nose.” Seriously.
Alfred Hitchcock’s rules for watching Psycho [video].
50 pick-up lines for the farmers market.
What is Steve Jobs lived to be 100 years old?
Is this a golden age for women in Hollywood?
On the other hand, we are very near the end of civilization as we know it.
The secret online weapons store that will sell anyone anything.
Patrick Goldstein: Variety’s future looks bleak.
Build your own Hobbit house.
Wesley Snipes compares Hollywood agents to “pimps”.
Kim Dotcom’s letter to Hollywood: “The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common.”
What schools can learn from the Blue Man Group.
Gavin Polone: Reality TV Isn’t Real, and Why Viewers Don’t Care.
10 exceptionally well-designed survival kits.
Relativity Media and Ron Burkle launching a sports division.
Graphing every idea in history.
10+ things to think about if you want to make better films.
Three lies ‘social media experts’ like to tell.
The long, slow death of the movie musical.
Tarantino Women [video].
9 of the world’s most ridiculously secure safes and vaults.
Sundance Insititute names first Bingham Ray producing fellow.
Famous Star Wars scenes… done with cats.
“Encyclopedia Brown” creator Donald J. Sobol dies at 87.
Ventura County wooing Hollywood.
Exercise can shield the aging brain.
Is the film trilogy going extinct?
Millennials seem to have little use for old movies. Great. Something else to keep me up at nights!
Meanwhile on the other end of the spectrum: Johnny Carson doc scores big for PBS.
As long as we’re traveling down Baby Boomer’s memory lane: In 1967, Jimi Hendrix opened for The Monkees.
More Old Farts: New Bob Dylan album coming in September.
And finally Michael Bay working on two boat-based TV series.
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: Two things to spotlight this week. First a bunch of people have taken advantage of The Core Package. All eight Core classes covering Plot, Concept, Character, Style, Dialogue, Scene, Theme and Time, available for nearly 50% off. Either self-paced where you download lectures, workshop your stories with writing exercises, and one-on-one teleconferences, or you can take the actual 1-week classes on a biweekly schedule. This content represents 25 years of working, thinking, studying and teaching the craft of screenwriting, a unique character-based approach, and lies at the foundation of The Quest.
And if you have missed out on the Pixar and the Craft of Storytelling 1-week class, I’m offering it again beginning Monday, July 30. Exclusive interviews, extensive movie analysis, and digging into six writing principles at work in Pixar movies. This is one of my most popular classes, so don’t pass up this opportunity as I won’t be teaching it again until 2013.
Last chance to sign up for Core I: Plot which begins this Monday, July 23.
As always, I look forward to the opportunity to work with you.