Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 183rd installment of Saturday Hot Links.
Today: It’s The Who Live At Leeds (1970) Edition.
The Winners of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
Why Do So Many People Want to Be Screenwriters?
7 Biggest Battles at the Summer Box Office.
‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Plot to Focus on Death Star.
Related: ‘Star Wars’: Why Did Director Josh Trank Bail on Stand-Alone Panel?
Watch 7 Technology-Themed Films for Free During Tribeca’s Online Festival.
Netflix New Releases Coming in May 2015: ‘Inglorious Basterds’, ‘Legally Blonde’.
Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn on ‘LA-Centric’ Snapchat Series.
Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced.
N.Y. vs. L.A. Home Prices: What $3.2 Million Gets You in Each City.
Here’s Why Jon Stewart Quit ‘The Daily Show’.
Music Video Sex Scenes That Will Scar You for Life.
Kinda related: Sex in a Box: The Twisted History of Twister.
Chicks Who Script: Episode 37.
Bob Saenz: Writing for Free?
Tanner Christiensen: Productivity for Creatives: Turning Ideas into Action [videos].
7 Revelations That Came Out of Harvey Weinstein’s Tribeca Talk.
Why Do Humans Have Chins?
‘Conan’ Writer Slams Late-Night Competition: “Shove Your Lip-Syncing Up Your Ass”.
How Will I Live? Fame, Money, Day Jobs, and Fiction Writing.
20 Future Stars Who Appeared on ‘Friends’.
The Incredible Eccentricities of 20 Great Writers.
How Does Hawaii Have Interstate Highways?
Gone With the Wind’ Outfit Fetches $137K at Auction.
The Rational Choices of Crack Addicts.
Silent Film Sex Symbols: The Men.
The Long Marriage of Mindfulness and Money.
25 Films You Might Not Know Were Based On A Book.
Norway is killing off FM radio in 2017.
Netflix Is Betting Its Future on Exclusive Programming.
How Cereal Transformed American Culture.
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon Originally Had a Gay Sex Scene In The ‘Good Will Hunting’ Script.
What Do Those Symbols on the iPhone Mean?
C-3PO & R2-D2 Hosted Documentary ‘The Making Of Star Wars’ From 1977 [video].
Read Patti Smith’s Touching Rock Hall Induction Tribute to Lou Reed.
Live-Streaming for Movie Theaters Moving Forward via DCDC.
11 Facts Yü Should Know About the Umlaut.
How the Lake Bell-Starrer ‘Man Up’ Hopes to Rehabilitate the Rom-Com Genre.
Why we should be lowering — not raising — the retirement age.
Disney excludes Black Widow from ‘Age of Ultron’ merchandise.
Related: Disneyland Band to Disband After 60 Years.
Kurt and Courtney’s Old L.A. Apartment Is Available on Airbnb.
Christopher Nolan Says His Filmmaking Process a ‘Combination of Intuition and Geometry’.
Student Loan Debt, Flat Wages Causing Youth to Ditch Theaters, Says AMC Chief.
Amy Schumer: That is all.
Prisoners have found a new way of getting contraband behind bars: Drones.
Huge auction of Shirley Temple items.
7 Things That Could Ruin Your Day in Antarctica.
Sarah Jones Internship And Training Program Established In Her Memory.
Has the Zodiac Killer’s Identity Been Revealed?
Lena Dunham and Rose Byrne Launch All-Female Production Companies.
Surgeons Discover Woman’s Embryonic Twin Lodged Deep Inside Her Brain.
Nielsen Casts Doubt on ‘Cord Cutting’ Trend.
Listening To Classical Music Enhances Gene Activity.
DC Launches Female-Centric Universe With ‘DC Super Hero Girls’.
Related: An all-female Transformers team will join Hasbro’s comic series.
The Happiest Countries According to the 2015 World Happiness Report.
Third White Boy Rick Film In Development by Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures.
The Rotating House is Great for All Seasons.
‘Interstellar’ and ‘Gravity’: Science fiction, outer space, and the question of God.
Cache of 43 Dinosaur Eggs Uncovered in China.
Meryl Streep’s inspiring solution to Hollywood’s ageism problem might actually work.
8 Psychological Tricks of Restaurant Menus.
Watch Lena Dunham’s Emotional Speech at Variety’s Power of Women NY [video].
A Cure for Asthma May Be Just Five Years Away.
DreamWorks Nears Rich Financing Deal With Participant Media.
Best Rest Practices for Optimal Productivity and Creativity.
How Star Wars Illuminates Constitutional Law (and Authorship).
Tesla wants to power your home with a battery.
Streaming Overtakes Live TV Among Consumer Viewing Preferences.
Cops arrest robot after it buys Ecstasy tablets with Bitcoin.
How ‘Unfriended’ Makes Cyberbullying Everyone’s Problem.
New York City planning to cut waste by 90 percent by 2030.
5 Common-Universe Theories For TV.
Smiling Changes How You View the World.
The 30 Most Powerful Film Producers in Hollywood.
Imagining a World Without Work.
RIP: ‘Time’ Magazine Critic Richard Corliss Dies at 71.
RIP: Monte Merrick, novelist, playwright, screenwriter (Memphis Belle).
Finally it’s Jon Stewart meets Armageddon.
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: Tom and I are working on an update to our website. It’s looking slick with a bunch of new features. In the meantime, here is our schedule of classes through June:
April 27: Craft: Create a Compelling Protagonist (Scott Myers)
May 4: Craft: Joss Whedon — Creating Characters (Tom Benedek)
May 11: Craft: Write a Worthy Nemesis (Scott Myers)
May 18: Pages TV: Original Pilot Script Workshop (Tom Benedek)
May 25: Craft: Scene Description Spotlight (Scott Myers) NOTE: New course!!!
June 1: Craft: TV — Writing the Web Series (Tom Benedek)
June 8: Prep: From Concept to Outline (Scott Myers)
June 15: Pages II (Tom Benedek)
June 22: Pages I: The First Draft (Scott Myers)
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As always, we look forward to the opportunity to work with you!