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Opinion: How About a Little Respect for Hollywood Screenwriters?
By not in system - AOL NewsThe Oscars are coming! While the usual pundits are busy sharpening their predictions and betting on the biggies -- best actor, best director, best picture -- I would like to say a word for the oft-forgotten writing nominations. Scripts are the seeds of thought that movies grow from. Not many films get made without them (not ones you'd like to rest your eyeballs on, anyway). Writers are like ancient monks, spending their lives hunkered down in lonely cells illuminating movies with their imaginations. They seldom get the attention they deserve, and yet they take enormous risks with their time ...
'The Kids Are All Right': A Modern American Family
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyWith the nationwide opening Friday of "The Kids Are All Right," a nearly perfect movie, a Sundance award-winner now gathering acclaim, we can declare with some certainty that stodgy, conventional Hollywood has finally made the great cultural leap to bring to the screen an exceptional picture of a perfectly normal lesbian couple and their children -- a modern American family. Heartrending, occasionally funny, tearfully profound, "The Kids Are All Right" is the first U.S. film to portray a lesbian couple with kids just like most families -- ordinary, sane, stable, caring, and flawed. We've got ...
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