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	Writing on the Screen: Satyajit Ray’s Adaptation of Tagore
		Writings on cinema from the 1930s and 40s, often by the writers and critics who had joined the industry, present a more or less consistent argument for a regionally grounded contemporary cinema that should mould itself into a novelistic discourse
		Ray’s defence of his adaptation is pitched against the lingering resistance to perceiving the film text in its own terms, the challenge being all the more serious here because of the Tagore factor.
		Tagore, writing more or less from within the social reality that he portrays, was not in a position to uncover the historical dynamics of this matrix.
	www.ipv.pt /forumedia/5/9.htm (2764 words)

	It Happened One Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This feat would not be repeated again until One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
		Best Actor in a Leading Role - Clark Gable
		Best Actress in a Leading Role - Claudette Colbert
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/i/it/it_happened_one_night.html (307 words)

	Academy Awards Best Screenplays and Writers
		One indicator of the types of screenplays that are nominated for awards is within the Best Picture category.
		Best Original Story was intended to give credit to the authors of performance works (not novels) that films were based on.
		The Maltese Falcon (1941) - (Best Screenplay - adaptation)
	www.filmsite.org /bestscreenplays.html (1344 words)

	"Best Screenwriting Magazine" —LA Times
		Now Stolberg is writing with a new partner, producer-actor Andrew Schaifer (who has appeared in everything from The Wedding Singer to The West Wing), directing his first film, and taking on a new type of comedy.
		Then, I was watching CNN one day and saw a story about a high school girl who had been suspended for the writings in her personal journal (which was confiscated and read without her permission), and we realized that this could be our way in.
		When I write solo, I much prefer to start writing and see where the characters take me. That's not to say that what I write at the beginning will have anything to do with the finished script, but it's my way of finding my character voices and deciding where I want to go with them.
	www.creativescreenwriting.com (2441 words)

	Adaptation - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		Like his writing on Malkovich, Kaufman's story is chock full of "real" people, including himself and most of the stars of BJM.
		This time the blurred line between fact and fiction is accentuated by parallel stories occurring years apart and then coming together like the proverbial pair of freight trains coming together on a short track.
		So thank the amazing mind of Charlie Kaufman (the writer) for writing a screenplay filled with actions that prove that anyone who tells you what you can or can't do in a screenplay is wrong.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive02/adaptation.html (860 words)

	Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Balcony Seats 01 21 03
		After all, this is a movie about a screenwriter who can't write a screenplay about a nonfiction writer who has trouble writing a book about an environmentalist who doesn't want to obey laws designed to protect the environment.
		So why not a review about a reviewer who can't write a review of the movie about a screenwriter who can't write a screenplay about a nonfiction writer who has trouble writing her book without finally writing about herself.
		Adaptation is the story of a neurotic screenwriter named Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) who is hired to adapt a nonfiction bestseller for the screen.
	www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2003-01-21/film_review.html (800 words)

	regarding: Adaptation weblog - about a movie by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman based on The Orchid Thief by Susan ...
		This is disappointing as Adaptation is a movie that cries out for bonus materials (and an odd choice because Adaptation doesn't seem like the type of film that needs a higher-than-normal quality picture or sound).
		Cage is nominated for best actor, Chris Cooper for best supporting actor, and the cast of Adaptation for outstand performance by a cast.
		Adaptation is based on The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean...and that's only the half of it.
	www.susanorlean.com /adaptation (1225 words)

	Kung Fu Monkey: Writing: Adaptation (Pt. 5)
		When doing an adaptation you have to settle for the fact that unless you really, really cross the strange attractor, you're going to be producing a reflection of the original material.
		No, the best version is the special In-Skull Director's Cut, which clocks in at four hours and...
		I read what you write about the studio system sometimes and I really begin to believe we are on two separate planets...
	kfmonkey.blogspot.com /2005/05/writing-adaptation-pt-5.html (1548 words)

	Sounds of Writing
		My writing, or attempts at writing, were not long ago accompanied by the whines, cries, or can't-wait-to-tell-you anecdotes of my three incredibly verbal daughters.
		My writing day will be broken up by clients coming by for consultations, workshops, writers who just walk in to network and to see who we are and what we're about.
		I'd been wondering why my writing has been more productive lately, thinking that I had possibly gotten better with time but I now realize that it is more likely that I no longer have to struggle just to hear my own voice.
	www.absolutewrite.com /sounds_of_writing.htm (4334 words)

	Cimarron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cimarron deals with the process of developing the West and bringing civilization to the Indians; by today's standards the film is considered racially insensitive, though perhaps typical of attitudes in 1931.
		Cimarron won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1931 for its producer, William LeBaron.
		Another definition for this word is in Cuba:A slave that scaped from their master to the jungle, looking to leave in freedom.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Cimarron.htm (325 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		While the popular section (actor, actress, picture and director) winners are mostly predictable and the honorary and animation awards almost known beforehand, it is the writing statuettes that not only spring a surprise or two but encourage many a fledgling film-maker to dream bigger.
		It came down to a single award for Best Writing Achievement in subsequent years, with writers being nominated for all of their work that year, rather than for a specific film.
		Then a third category, Best Original Screenplay, was added in 1940 for eight years when it was again curtailed to just two.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050224/asp/calcutta/story_4412508.asp (631 words)

	1930-31 Academy Awards® Winners and History
		The 1930/1 ceremony was the first in which the 'Best Picture' category was officially recognized (previously in the first three years in which awards were presented, the top award had been termed 'Best Production').
		She played the role of Min, a rough-talking boozer who was paired up with actor Wallace Beery as a battling waterfront couple (proprietors of a hotel) who risk losing the custody of their adopted daughter due to their tippling.
		The former received a Best Writing (Original) nomination, and the latter received a Best Writing (Adaptation) nomination, but both James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson (who never received a nomination for an award in his entire career) were ignored as actors in star-making roles.
	www.filmsite.org /aa30.html (1105 words)

	Kung Fu Monkey: Writing: Adaptation, Pt. 3
		The first adaptation I wrote was a screenplay of Matt Wagner's classic graphic novel, Mage.
		I was enthusiastic about writing cool fight scenes and exploring a rich fantasy world.
		You have to write for yourself, because if you're not interested in what you're writing, no one else will be either.
	kfmonkey.blogspot.com /2005/02/writing-adaptation-pt-3.html (1103 words)

	Writing What We Know: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To write short nonfiction requires an alertness to detail, a quickening of the senses, a focusing of the literary lense, so to speak, until one has magnified some small aspect of what it means to be human.
		Involvement in the Dakota Writing Project has led me to search for solutions within the context of writing that will pull parents from the sidelines and encourage them to be active coaches and managers of their children’s learning.
		Obviously, writing as a whole far exceeds the boundaries of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and mechanics, although some parents do not understand this or how they might help their children with their writing.
	www.dakotawritingproject.org /dwpezine/2004/09/26 (18745 words)

	The Best American Magazine Writing 2004 (Best American Magazine Writing) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Though these are all cutting-edge, top-tier articles, the role of women in the book, as authors and subjects, is subjugated to well, writing about fluffier topics and topics of (supposed) interest to women.
		We should expect Esquire and GQ to be writing for men, but it is disturbing that so many of the Magazine Award winners from which she is choosing are men, and are from "men's magazines" (we thank the universe for the Utne Reader and Ms.
		But it's a small quibble, and the controversy will continue, while the writing, meanwhile, should be admired no matter what the author's gender.
	e-acting.com /isbn0060749539.html (1050 words)

	Mob Software
		Typically a student will write a few dozen small programs over the course of an undergraduate education, and perhaps he or she will work on a larger program—such as a compiler—with a small group of students.
		Compare this with the best effort by an individual—Samuel Johnson—who, over a 9-year period, using the same methodology and a handful of assistants called amanuenses, produced a 2-volume dictionary with about 40,000 words and in most cases 1 citation per entry.
		As we look at these two works, Johnson’s dictionary is a monument to individual effort and a work of art, revealing as much about Johnson as about the language he perceived around him, while the OED is the standard benchmark for dictionaries, the final arbiter of meaning and etymology.
	www.dreamsongs.com /MobSoftware.html (11627 words)

	thebooksconnection :: The Best American Science Writing 2001 (Best American Science Writing (Paperback)) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Timothy Ferris has assembled an impressive array of science writing covering topics ranging from quantum physics to the water you drink.
		Comment: This is a splendid anthology of scientific writing which should be of interest to the general public, as well as to teachers and students of science.
		Gathered from the nation's leading publications by award-winning author Timothy Ferris, The Best American Science Writing 2001 is a dynamic, up-to-date collection of essays and articles by America's most prominent thinkers and writers, addressing the most controversial, socially relevant topics that recent developments in science pose.
	www.thebooksconnection.com /0060936487/The_Best_American_Science_Writing_2001_Best_American_Science_Writing_Paperback.html (2330 words)

	The Best American Magazine Writing 2004 (Best American Magazine Writing) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Best American Magzine Writing series is edited in 2004 by Susan Orlean, who wrote "The Orchid Thief," which became the movie, "Adaptation, " in which Orlean is played by Meryl Streep.
		Much the way a top museum curator chooses what to add to a collection, editors choose not only what they love for "prize collections" like these, but they, at their best, try to cull a representative...
		I also own the 2002 Best Magazine Writing, which I wholeheartedly recommend (be sure to read "Dr. Daedalus" by Lauren Slater).
	www.sixstroke.com /cgi-bin/cbooks/ca.pl?asinsearch=0060749539 (284 words)

	ACADEMY AWARD FOR WRITING ADAPTED SCREENPLAY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy_Awards, the most prominent film awards in the United_States.
		It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source (usually a novel or play).
		In the 2nd and 3rd years there was only a single writing award for Writing Achievement with no distinction between original works and adaptations.
	www.rocgames.com /Academy_Award_for_Writing_Adapted_Screenplay (3721 words)

	the REEL WORLD: 1934
		It soon becomes obvious that Asaph hates his boss and his work, but he feels such a strong sense of duty to the job that he could never imagine writing a story that he believes in, let alone fighting to get it published.
		This film, starring Claudette Colbert as a spoiled heiress and Clark Gable as a gruff reporter, cleaned up at the 1935 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor for Gable, Best Actress for Colbert, Best Director for Frank Capra, and Best Writing, Adaptation, for Robert Riskin.
		He needs one big story to get his job back, and when he figures out who Ellie is, he decides to write it about her.
	www.vex.net /~emily/film/1934.html (712 words)

	The Mediadrome - The Story of the First Academy Awards
		One to Warner Brothers for producing The Jazz Singer and one to Charles Chaplin for writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus.
		This was the first and only year, the Academy recognized two best pictures and the only time, winners were recognized for more than one movie.
		It was also the only time a silent movie reached best picture status.
	www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/film_articles/first_academy_awards.shtml (1006 words)

	Amazon.com: The Best American Science Writing 2001 (Best American Science Writing (Paperback)): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Not only do science writers have to elucidate new and complicated material for a possibly science-resistant audience but they have to be good storytellers, and a gift for metaphor and a witty streak don't hurt either.
		This is a splendid anthology of scientific writing which should be of interest to the general public, as well as to teachers and students of science.
		The writing quality lives up to the name--it is excellent.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060936487?v=glance (3463 words)

	REELINSIDER.COM - IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)
		As the first film ever to win the Academy Awards quintuple crown of Outstanding Production, Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Writing (Robert Riskin), Best Actor (Clark Gable) and Best Actress (Claudette Colbert), It Happened One Night is an American screen classic.
		Combining elements from Samuel Hopkins Adams's original Cosmopolitan story "Night Bus" with a dose of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew", Riskin's resulting romantic comedy is full of smart dialogue playing with a fish-out-of-water theme.
		On the other hand there is a deep reliance on chance encounters and performance styles that seem, at best, quaintly dated or, at worst, harshly unnatural in light of innovations like method acting that happened later on.
	www.reelinsider.com /ithappened.html (1625 words)

	Secrets to Writing a Best Seller 2005
		The key to writing that sells is the author’s ability to revise and rewrite.
		He was a finalist in the $500,000 Kingman Screenwriting Award, the Chesterfield Contest, the Klasky-Csupo Writing for Children Contest, the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Award, the USC One-Act Play Festival, the HBO New Writers Project, and the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference.
		He received a Valley Theatre League nomination for best director and best play for his one-man musical RebbeSoul-O. His play, King Levine opened at the Odyssey Theater under the direction of Joseph Bologna and after receiving rave reviews, transferred to The Tiffany.
	www.seak.com /semMedsecretsbestseller2005.htm (764 words)

	Horrordvds.com Forum - Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... finally!
		March got the best actor Acadamy Award for his performance that year.
		The movie was also nominated for the Best Writing, Adaptation category, and won the Venice Film Festival's Audience Referendum award
		Best Jeckyl and Hyde transformation scene - in Jack the Ripper with Michael Caine (a TV movie put out by AB).
	www.horrordvds.com /vb3forum/printthread.php?t=13452 (597 words)

	Sand in the Gears
		A web device reads my posts and then chooses ads based on words I write up here, on the premise that my readers will be interested in buying products related to what I write about.
		You would be surprised, by the way, how much house you can get for your home-buying dollar when you aren't paying a premium to live near the massive kleptocratic apparatus known as the federal government of the United States of America.
		Something you have to understand about writing with the intent of publication is that it is much like Drew Carey's high school dating life.
	www.tonywoodlief.com (4896 words)

	CSC - Intelligent Design: The Origin of Biological Information and the Higher Taxonomic Categories
		Microevolution looks at adaptations that concern the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest.
		Studies in the methodology and philosophy of science have shown that many scientific theories, particularly in the historical sciences, are formulated and justified as inferences to the best explanation (Lipton 1991:32-88, Brush 1989:1124-1129, Sober 2000:44).
		Moreover, contemporary studies on the method of “inference to the best explanation” have shown that determining which among a set of competing possible explanations constitutes the best depends upon judgments about the causal adequacy, or “causal powers,” of competing explanatory entities (Lipton 1991:32-88).
	www.discovery.org /scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2177&progr... (14205 words)

	Movie: The Jazz Singer
		At an early age he ran away form home to escape his father who wanted him to be a Cantor for his synagogue rather than sing the songs he wanted to sing.
		However, he still maintained a close relationship with his mother, writing letters to her updating her on his life.
		This, by far, made the Jazz singer from a good movie into one that would be known to history.
	www.angelfire.com /co/pscst/jazzsinger.html (371 words)

	IMDb: Academy Awards, USA: Best Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
		Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced
		Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Material Not Previously Published or Produced
	us.imdb.com /Sections/Awards/Academy_Awards_USA/Best_Writing (1065 words)

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