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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Alan Ball (b. 1957)
		Alan Ball was born in Atlanta in 1957 and grew up in Marietta.
		In 2006 Ball's script was named one of the 101 greatest screenplays by the Writers Guilds of America, east and west.
		Ball won an Emmy Award and a Directors Guild of America Award for the show's pilot, which was his directorial debut.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1519 (641 words)

	Alan Ball (screenwriter) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alan Ball is a graduate of the Florida State University School of Theatre.
		Ball started out by writing for the TV show '' Cybill '', starring Cybill Shepherd, and he stated that he based the horrific suburban wife character (played by Annette Bening in ''American Beauty'') on Shepherd, who has earned a reputation for being extremely difficult to work with, from both male and female co-workers.
		Ball has written nine episodes for his series, '' Six Feet Under '' and has directed 6 episodes including the series finale.
	www.seattleluxury.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/entry/Alan_Ball_(screenwriter) (352 words)

	Salon People \| Where you find it
		Ball was asked about the plastic bag scene, but not by one of the audience members.
		Ball used to be a television writer, a job he loathed.
		The plastic bag scene works, as does the entire movie, because Ball was so pushed to the edge by the circumstances of his life that he found the courage to make a little pearl and to share it with the world.
	archive.salon.com /people/feature/2000/03/25/ball (1097 words)

	Reel.com: Alan Ball Interview
		The fifth golden statue was presented to first-time screenwriter Alan Ball for his touching but tragic tale of the dark reality behind the seemingly perfect American dream.
		Ball's hero Lester Burnham is a depressed, middle-aged Joe Schmo stuck in a boring job, trapped in a dead marriage to a Martha-Stewart-on-speed and has a sullen, spotty-faced teenage daughter who hates him.
		Ball, a native of Atlanta, Ga., sat down with Reel.com shortly after hearing of his Oscar nomination.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/ball (1131 words)

	Alan Ball Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alan Ball: I spent four seasons as a sitcom writer on shows that were really frustrating to be a writer on.
		Alan Ball: The first draft took eight months, but that's because I was working full-time as a co-executive producer on a network sitcom, so I was coming home at one in the morning and writing for two hours and going to sleep.
		Alan Ball: Yeah, and I think you have to have a deep and fundamental acceptance of mortality to really be able to see what's beautiful in life, because beauty and truth are inextricably connected.
	www.spiritualteachers.org /alan_ball.htm (1479 words)

	CNN - American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past - October 8, 1999
		Ball is the screenwriter on the film, and since its release he's been having -- well, he's been having a ball.
		Ball, 42, was raised in Marietta, Georgia, a small town on the outskirts of Atlanta that's home to Newt Gingrich.
		Ball says, "I was thinking, 'I'm not going second guess what's going to sell on the marketplace, I'm not going to try to write what I think will get produced.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9910/08/american.ball/index.html (1447 words)

	Amazon.ca: American Beauty: Books: Alan Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The accompanying notes from Ball and director Sam Mendes are quite insightful, hinting at a different original ending and revealing Ball's odd inspiration for his idea: the tale of Joey Buttafuoco.
		Ball's TV background has made him an expert technical writer, and this book would serve as a great template for the fledgling screenwriter.
		Alan Ball's script won multiple awards, and rightly so: it is a masterpiece of dramatic writing, merging the comical, the tragic and the spiritual in ways rarely seen in present day (American) film.
	www.amazon.ca /American-Beauty-Alan-Ball/dp/1557044236 (809 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Alan Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alan Ball (Playwright) is the creator and executive producer of Six Feet Under, the critically acclaimed drama series on HBO.
		Alan Ball, director of American Beauty and creator of the award-winning series Six Feet Under, was asked about straight actors playing gay characters on his HBO series.
		Alan Ball, writer of "American Beauty" and creator of HBO's "Six Feet Under," wrote this steamrolling comedy about female friendship and frustration with having to be a lady.
	www.zoominfo.com /Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=976231 (2062 words)

	iFMagazine.com Features - HAVING A BALL
		With the awards season now in full gear, Ball earned a Golden Globe nominiation for BEAUTY, he is riding high on BEAUTY's success but takes it all in stride in the easy manner that is apparent in his character.
		ALAN BALL: I started thinking about these characters and this story almost six years ago.
		BALL: I had been working in TV and I wanted to have a features career as well and I felt like the agency where I was had pigeonholed me as a TV writer.
	www.ifmagazine.com /feature.asp?article=489 (1539 words)

	Alan Ball - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The screenwriter and co-producer of American Beauty, Alan Ball earned almost overnight acclaim and recognition for his screenplay for the film,...
		The son of Alan Ball Senior, a footballer and manager, Ball was a tireless, marauding midfield player who could operate centrally or on the right flank,...
		Alan Ball - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Alan Ball Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/alan-ball/271194/main (132 words)

	iFMagazine.com Features - Having a Ball Pt.2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		ALAN BALL: I have a script that I am writing now and when it's done I am going to take a look at it and go, "is this
		BALL: What I take from the movie is there's a real sort of appreciation and gratitude for - God I am saying things that sound like they should be on some horrible Hallmark card - a real appreciation of life and what is right there in front of our eyes all the time.
		BALL: Oh yeah, Kevin would come up with these diiferent things each take and Sam told him to do that so Annette's reaction would be really genuine and it was so funny.
	www.ifmagazine.com /common/article.asp?articleID=494 (1213 words)

	American Beauty
		Alan Ball, a successful television comedy writer who wrote the film, said the project began about two years ago when he switched talent agents in an effort to break into movies.
		Ball, who has a new ABC series, "Oh, Grow Up," starting in the fall, said he gave Cannava several ideas.
		Ball, who is 41, grew up in Georgia, attended school in Florida, "waitered tables and hung out on the beach in my 20s," then moved to New York, where he worked as an art director at Adweek magazine.
	www.mindspring.com /~pashworth/americanbeauty.html (1507 words)

	The Translucent Revolution: Alan Ball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		ALAN BALL is the creator and executive producer of Six Feet Under, the critically acclaimed drama series on HBO.
		Alan’s screenplay American Beauty received the 1999 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe award for Best Screenplay.
		Before becoming a screenwriter for television and film Alan was a comedic playwright in New York.
	www.translucents.org /ball.htm (104 words)

	Alan Ball @ Filmbug UK
		Alan Ball (born in Atlanta, Georgia circa 1957) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer and occasional actor, who is best known for writing the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film American Beauty.
		He started out by writing for the TV show Cybill, starring Cybill Shepherd, and he stated that he based the horrific suburban wife character (played by Annette Bening in American Beauty) on Shepherd, who has earned a reputation for being extremely difficult to work with, from both male and female co-workers.
		Tell us what you think of Alan Ball in the Filmbug forum...
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/345338 (291 words)

	screenwriting / playwriting resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alan Ball (Screenwriter, Coproducer: "American Beauty") [amazon.com interview] "..you have to have a deep and fundamental acceptance of mortality to really be able to see what's beautiful in life, because beauty and truth are inextricably connected.
		Screenwriters Score Successes Online by Jenna Glatzer "The online screenwriting community has had plenty to cheer about lately; finally, we're beginning to see direct evidence that the dream of selling a screenplay via the Internet is within reach."
		While every screenwriting program screams in their ads that more people use their software than any other screenwriting program, I can say from the Hollywood professionals I have met over the years, the majority truly use Final Draft.
	talentdevelop.com /books-scr.html (2941 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: American Beauty: The Awards Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Screenwriter Alan Ball and director Sam Mendes reaped a motherlode of awards for their 1999 debut effort American Beauty by smartly dressing shallow, sensationalist pap in arty, melodramatic trappings.
		There are maybe two especially potent moments in American Beauty, in which Ball touches on some valid ideas, but overall his script is ridden with tired clichés, asinine assumptions, and terminally shallow — and inconsistent — characterizations.
		Includes a commentary by Ball and Mendes, storyboards with commentary by Mendes and cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, a "making-of" featurette, textual notes, and DVD-ROM features, including a split-screen presentation of the screenplay alongside the running movie.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/a/americanbeauty.q.shtml (212 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - Alan Ball Returns To TV With HBO Mortuary Series
		Alan Ball Returns To TV With HBO Mortuary Series
		Ball will direct the pilot, which is expected to begin production in July in L.A. He said he could not imagine the series surviving on network television.
		Ball speaks about the broadcast networks from experience.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|58770\|1\|,00.html (245 words)

	Alan Ball (screenwriter) - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Alan Ball (born in 1957) is an Academy Award winning screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the film American Beauty.
		Ball is a graduate of the Florida State University School of Theatre.
		Alan Ball (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0050332/) at the Internet Movie Database
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Alan_Ball_(screenwriter) (128 words)

	Lycos Movies - Celebrity - Alan Ball
		Alan Ball took a slightly roundabout path on his way to becoming a successful screenwriter.
		Instead of immediate success in the theater, the openly gay Ball worked as a magazine art director for Adweek and Inside PR and shared a house in Brooklyn with two heterosexual male roommates.
		In 1991, his "The M Word" premiered at the inaugural Lucille Ball Festival of New American Comedy.
	entertainment.lycos.com /movies/celebrity.php?id=15606 (140 words)

	American Beauty featuring Kevin Spacey & Annette Bening Movie and DVD page on ARTISTdirect
		As written by Alan Ball and directed by theatre wunderkind/film neophyte Sam Mendes, the tale of Lester Burnham's final year of life keenly delves into the repressed desires, rampant materialism, skewed values, and gnawing insecurities lurking behind the crisply manicured lawns and meticulously decorated houses lining Any Street, USA.
		Meanwhile, next door, Colonel Fitts (Chris Cooper) has spent a lifetime in the Marine Corps and can understand and tolerate no other way of life, which makes life difficult for his son Ricky (Wes Bentley), an aspiring filmmaker and part-time drug dealer who is obsessed with beauty, wherever and whatever it may be.
		American Beauty was also the screen debut for screenwriter Alan Ball.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/movies/title/0,,2165723,00.html (500 words)

	Lead News Stories from the Gay People's Chronicle
		The two council members who opposed the ordinance, Alan Walne and Mitchell Rasansky, said it would be too expensive for the city to enforce in an already tight budget year.
		Alan Ball, screenwriter for the film, was honored with the Best Original Screenplay award by the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and the Writers Guild of America in 1999.
		Alan Ball: Well, I signed into a three-year TV deal the week before I sold the American Beauty script.
	www.gaypeopleschronicle.com /stories02/02may17.htm (6281 words)

	Alan Ball (screenwriter) (alan ball (screenwriter) info) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The awards night itself is an elaborate extravaganza, with the invited guests walking up the red carpet in the creations of the most prominent fashion designers of the day.
		Today, according to Rules 2 and 3 of the official Academy Awards Rules, a film has to open in the previous calendar year (from midnight January 1 to midnight December 31) in Los Angeles County, California, to qualify.
		Alan Ball originally wrote this as a script for a play.
	wikimiki.info.cob-web.org:8888 /en/Alan+Ball+(screenwriter) (10508 words)

	Inside Film Online - American Beauty Screenwriter Alan Ball Conducts Case Study at the Ifp/West Screenwriters Conference
		IFP/West presented its annual screenwriting conference at the Writers Guild in Los Angeles on March 18 -19.
		The panels were composed predominantly of screenwriters, among them Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune, Bicentennial Man), Robin Swicord (Little Women, Matilda), Jon Favreau (Swingers) and Cauleen Smith (writer/director Drylongso).
		The American Beauty case study was presented by the film's screenwriter Alan Ball.
	www.insidefilm.com /alan_ball.html (9392 words)

	Diggin' Six Feet Under - executive television producer Alan Ball - Brief Article - Interview Advocate, The - Find ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		American Beauty writer Alan Ball talks about taking on life, death, and the closet in his new series for HBO
		But rather than jumping at any of the feature film projects dangled before him, the openly gay former sitcom writer and producer (Grace Under Fire, Cybill) decided instead to create an hourlong comedy-drama series for HBO: Six Feet Under, set in a family mortuary.
		Hit by a bus in the June 3 series debut, he was the first of many clients to come through the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2001_July_3/ai_75997145 (885 words)

	Six Feet Under: The Complete Fifth Season - ProductWiki
		Created by Alan Ball (the screenwriter behind the Oscar-winning 1999 film AMERICAN BEAUTY), the HBO series could arguably have been called the best show on television during its five-season run.
		Gaining loyal fans with its complex and involving characters (many of the show's stars came from theatre backgrounds), the series also stood out for its serious themes, its dark humor, and Ball's use of surrealist imagery.
		Alan Ball's brilliantly original HBO series, about the members of a dynamic Los Angeles-based family that operates the Fisher a...
	www.productwiki.com /six_feet_under_the_complete_fifth_season (432 words)

	American Beauty: The Shooting Script:155704404X:BALL ALAN:eCampus.com
		The original screenplay by Alan Ball (TV's Cybill) marks the directorial debut of award-winning theater director Sam Mendes (The Blue Room, Cabaret), who describes the script in this book's introduction as "a highly inventive fl comedy...
		In the Newmarket Shooting Script format, here is the complete shooting script, a fascinating essay about the script and the making of the film by Sam Mendes, an afterword by screenwriter Alan Ball recalling the genesis of his script, a twelve page photo section, and complete cast
		Screenwriters Award-winner Set, Collection 2: Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Beauty
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=155704404X (213 words)

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