Saturday Hot Links
Welcome to a late installment of Saturday Hot Links! Delayed by computer gremlins who shut down the blog last night for several hours.
Today: The Valentine’s Day Notable Movie Kisses Montage Edition!
[A major assist today from Shaula Evans who contributed a bunch of links. Thanks, Shaula!]
“There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical … The other is an outpouring of everything good in you … The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.” — John Steinbeck
Check out 48 hidden images in Black Swan.
Deep fried Southern food = public health menace.
Connecticut Representative to Spielberg: Get your Lincoln facts straight.
And Tony Kushner writes a letter in response.
Women apologize more than men.
GITS Forum: Finding the love in your scenes.
Did Truman Capote fudge the facts with In Cold Blood?
In Brazil, it’s raining spiders.
Divorce proof your marriage with This Is 40.
7 “Seinfeld” plots that happened in real life.
Quit Facebook. Get paid.
5 legendary feuds between artists and record labels.
FirstShowing: Awesome film noir posters of superhero favorites.
The title of Pete Docter’s next Pixar movie: Inside Out.
Up’s Carl and Russell as Batman & Robin.
The surprising last words of 11 entertainers.
50 minor Star Wars characters who need their own movies.
Speaking of which, is George Lucas really going to sell $2B in Disney stock?
And the world’s 10 most expensive cities are…?
Brad Bird wants an animated Annie Hall.
Behold! The largest prime number ever discovered!
GITS Forum: Great romantic subplots.
McDonald’s to test serving food on (gasp!)… plates.
Roger Ebert’s coverage of the first Sundance Film Festival in 1981.
Walter Cronkite envisions the 21st century home… in 1967 [video].
Layoffs coming to DreamWorks animation.
18 complicated scientific ideas explained simply.
Did an asteroid really wipe out dinosaurs?
Beau Willimon on adapting “House of Cards”.
The Paris Review: The best-read city in America.
Bryan Singer donates $5M to the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Francis Bacon’s thoughts on love.
The original cowardly lion costume from The Wizard of Oz is for sale.
The house that In-And-Out Burgers built.
President Obama’s head speechwriter is leaving… to become a screenwriter.
Saying you’re a good kisser doesn’t mean it’s true.
George R.R. Martin lands an overall deal at HBO.
Origins of 8 of the strangest place names in Canada.
Vince Gilligan will direct “Breaking Bad”’s finale.
GITS Forum: The trouble with sex scenes.
Why are millennials so optimistic about the future?
“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything.” — Katherine Hepburn.”
HBO is moving forward on Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s drama “The Leftovers”.
Richard Dawkins on love.
What the world look like when you’re color blind.
THR: 10 romance-hating movies to get you through Valentine’s Day.
Singing the ABC’s in 8 different languages.
Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty screenwriter: Torture “clearly part” of finding Bin Laden.
Found! The first emoticons.
Can the Santa Barbara Film Festival remain relevant?
Creativity Post: Do gifted kids want to be Zuckerberg rather than Einstein?
WGA Awards presenters include Amy Poehler, Adam Scott and Jessica Chastain.
The top rated Super Bowl commercials: 1989–2013.
13 directors who work with the same actors over and over again.
Your government can kill you if…
TotalFilm: 50 greatest Hitchcock moments.
What happens to the losing team’s championship shirts?
Check out this year’s Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
Orange juice vs. Coke: Which is more processed?
GITS Forum: Loving your characters.
“Wild Thing” singer Reg Presley dead at 71.
Read Harrison Ford’s hand-written Raiders of the Lost Ark script notes.
The best-selling books in 10 countries around the world.
6 theories about the origins of language.
10 life lessons from Groundhog Day.
The intriguing passports of 20 famous artists and writers.
Body found under parking lot is King Richard III.
5 remarkable things discovered under parking lots.
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” — Kurt Vonnegut
Screenwriting Master Class tip of the week: They say writing is rewriting… but what does that really mean? It’s one thing to say. Quite another to do. Each scene, each page, each line represents a choice. How to make those choices?
That’s why Tom and I created Pages II: Rewriting Your Script. It’s a 10-week screenwriting workshop in which you analyze and break down your script, come up with a revision plan, then rewrite your script.
You benefit from having:
* A structured environment of weekly writing assignments to steer you through the rewriting process.
* Feedback from fellow writers.
* Expert guidance from your instructor.
The next session begins February 18 with Tom Benedek as the mentor.
If you have a script that needs rewriting, but don’t know how to approach that process, enroll in this workshop. To learn more, go here.
Other upcoming classes:
February 25: Craft: Character Development Keys (Scott Myers)
March 4: Network Hollywood (Tom Benedek)
March 11: Prep (Scott Myers)
March 18: Writing Scenes (Tom Benedek) (Coming Soon!)
March 25: Craft: Story Summaries (Scott Myers)
We look forward to the opportunity to work with you!