Saturday Hot Links
Back for another installment of Saturday Hot Links.
Today: The Tony Scott Memorial Edition.
Here is a three-minute short by Ridley Scott featuring brother Tony riding a bicycle [via Indiewire].
1969 interview between Roger Ebert and Federico Fellini.
Why are textbooks so expensive?
HT to Walt Bethke for sourcing this excellent piece on Tom Stoppard.
Beck’s new album “Song Reader”? It’s only available as sheet music.
Danny Manus: 13 tips to networking success.
Rod Serling on writing, creativity and the source of ideas.
Original Muppeteer Jerry Nelson has died. Among other voices, he did The Count.
Film Strips: Movies, money and metadata visualized. Seriously awesome. Seriously a time suck.
Scott Barry Kaufman: The psychology of pick-up lines.
Total Film: 50 most disappointing movies of all time.
Chris Gethard: Learning to love failure.
Billy Crystal spells out some details on Monsters University.
The covert history of the American condom.
Slashfilm: Track listing of John Williams Lincoln score hints at film’s structure.
10 things created over a couple of beers.
Nice feature on screenwriter-director Davide Koepp and his latest movie Premium Rush.
David Henry Hwang wins $200K playwriting prize.
Chapman University hires four new film professors.
8 sounds that are trademarked.
Craiz Zadan and Neil Meron to produce next year’s Academy Awards.
Robert Fure: Make death matter and give characters their due.
Morgan Spurlock lands a docu-series on CNN to begin April 2013.
The favorite movies of 42 famous people.
6 highlights from Dan Harmon’s ‘ask me anything’ Reddit session.
Wait. There’s a National Hobo Convention?
Some dude tried to extort $13M from Harvey Weinstein.
Barry Diller sues BarryDriller.com.
John Lennon’s assassin denied parole again.
YouTube star Freddie Wong launches a summer blockbuster… without a movie studio.
Why you can’t remember being a baby.
Here is Tony Scott’s first film One of the Missing, a student film from 1969:
Creativity Post: The science of expectation: Using humor to understand creativity.
News about “Arrested Development,” season 4.
Mike DeLuca: On The Slate.
23 writers who were famous by age 23.
Why aren’t there B batteries?
Patrick Goldstein’s last column for the LAT.
8 great moments in the history of editing.
Who’s behind that political ad? This app tells you.
Jimmy Kimmel moving show to 11:35PM.
Did you know you can buy Twitter followers?
One Mom’s opinion: Why Merida from Brave is good news for boys.
Infographic: How college students see the world.
Slackers finally get their own film festival.
Why is the most popular TED Talk about education?
DreamWorks Animation signs 5-year deal with 20th Century Fox.
Tennis star Maria Sharapova starts her own line of candy.
Apple becomes the most valuable company in history.
Meanwhile Hulu owners can’t agree on its future.
Dogs can shake 70% of the water from their fur in 4 seconds. Here’s how.
The Pussy Riot verdict.
Pussy Riot’s closing statements.
How movie effects fool your brain.
Simon Rich: How to write for any medium.
Why the 7 deadly sins aren’t so terrible after all.
The book that comes with an expiration date.
10 things your body can do after you die.
Deadline: Tony Scott left behind some fine projects.
For those who missed my post earlier this week, perhaps the last at-length interview with Tony Scott from December 2011:
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: Did you know you can do any of the SMC workshops — Prep: From Concept To Outline, Pages I: The First Draft, Pages II: Rewriting Your Script — as a private class with either Tom Benedek or myself? Same lectures, same writing structure, same goals with the benefit of one-on-one mentoring approach. We do quite a few of these from beginners to advance, even professional writers who want to use the structure of a workshop environment to compel them to write a script. For more information, hit the links above or contact us via email
As always, we look forward to the opportunity to work with you.
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