Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 113th installment of Saturday Hot Links!
Today: The We Remember JFK Edition.
Grantland: Death of a Screenwriting Guru (Syd Field)
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9 superhero movies that (unfortunately) did not get made.
Hemingway’s secret to maintaining productive momentum.
Why have so many recent YA adaptations flopped at the box office.
Marion Stokes taped 35 years of TV news… that’s 140,000 VHS tapes.
John Landis rails against studios: “They’re not in the movie business anymore.”
11 words for people who hate certain things.
J.R.R. Tolkien may get his own biopic.
Watch Jon Stewart talk pizza for 10 minutes, with celebrities [video].
Writers explain why writing “Dr. Who” is “like writing seven shows at once.”
Skeletal remains of 24,000 year-old boy raise new questions about first Americans.
Variety announces its annual ten screenwriters to watch list.
85% of the United States currency supply is missing.
The Dissolve: In 1970s science fiction, every utopia had a price.
Is Charles Manson getting married.
FilmmakerIQ: David Lynch presents the history of surrealist film circa 1987 [video].
Sleep therapy seen as aid for depression.
The definitive ranking of all the turtlenecks in Love Actually.
5 ideas for condoms of the future.
Here’s everything that earned Lars Van Trier’s Nymphomaniac a red-band trailer.
Jay Leno slapped with bizarre bestiality lawsuit.
Christian Bale explains the origins of the Batvoice.
Actually this is how Batman got his voice [video].
13 fascinating facts about bees.
Is this the ultimate guide to screenwriting websites.
Scientists just accidentally killed the world’s oldest creature.
WGA accuses reality TV shows of ‘stealing’ $40M from writer-producers.
8 famous ideas that literally came from dreams.
50 movies that were better than the books.
50 movies you won’t believe didn’t win the Oscars.
40 things you didn’t know about Martin Scorcese.
A female revolution at the box office.
The coolest film festivals in the world.
Greenlighting movies in a tentpole era.
9 crazy things people found inside their walls.
TheWrap: Who has greenlight power? A studio by studio guide.
The most creative mid-sized cities in America.
Amazon makes its first exclusive movie deal.
Reader did a nifty infographic of 300 scripts s/he has covered.
Ingmar Bergman evaluates his fellow filmmakers.
8 famous movies and lawsuits that plagued them.
Sony to trim film slate.
50 unrealistic movie life lessons.
The Scriptnotes holiday live show looks pretty kick-ass.
Rob Ford and Chris Farley mashup [video].
Steve McQueen to his 12 Years a Slave critics who find it too beautiful: “I’m not making a horror film.”
David Thomson recalls fun moments that “made the movies.”
Academy narrows live action short Oscar race to 10 films.
Film, TV and other copyright industries added $1 trillion to U.S. economy in 2012.
Thompson On Hollywood ranks the Coen brothers movies.
50 funniest stand-up specials of all time.
The Bob Dylan “Like A Rolling Stone” video that came out this week? Awesome!
On a personal note: I was 10 years old when President Kennedy was assassinated. We were living in Montgomery, Alabama at the time, my father recently transferred to the Air War College there. It was my first experience with segregation, a shocking experience. There was considerable anti-Kennedy fervor among students because of his support of the Civil Rights bill.
I was in my elementary school class when an official walked in and announced the President had been shot. Some of the boys applauded.
The sound of their hands clapping… that is what I remember most about that awful day.
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