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	Leigh Brackett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The last was a departure for Brackett, since until then, all of her science fiction had been in the form of novels and short stories rather than screenplays.
		Leigh Douglass Brackett was born in Los Angeles, California.
		Brackett's Mars is a world of science fantasy, an arid, dying planet, populated by ancient, decadent and mostly humanoid races (see Mars in fiction).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leigh_Brackett (1384 words)

	SPACELIGHT: Hamilton, Leigh Brackett - personal data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Leigh's work in western movies was also impressive, writing Rio Bravo and El Dorado; winning the 1963 Silver Spur award for Follow the Free Wind.
		She cranked out such pulp-fiction as "Dragon-Queen of Jupiter," "Enchantress of Venus," and "The Jewel-Beast of Mars." While a writer of short stories in the SF field and novels in the Western field, Leigh's interest was in films and screenplays.
		Leigh was married to Edmond Hamilton, the leading pulp SF writer of his day.
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/brackett.html (192 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		eigh Brackett (1915-1978)—married from 1946 onward to fellow SF writer Edmond Hamilton—is in all likelihood not well remembered by the newest generations of SF readers, yet her role in the field is seminal.
		And the women Brackett pairs her men with are not madonnas, but equally tough, though never generally on the wrong side of civilization.
		Plainly, Brackett was growing with every story she wrote, not yet 30 years old by the volume's end, with the best yet to come.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue316/books2.html (1030 words)

	Mysterical-e THE BOXOFFICE CAPER
		Brackett, Gernsback if they were willing to be searched and to have their locker's searched.
		Brackett stated that they were positive that the money I'd found in Gernsback's locker was from the Rialto receipts.
		Brackett if they were prepared to swear money found in Gernsback's locker was part of the missing theater receipts.
	mystericale.tripod.com /BOX_OFFICE_CAPER.html (1558 words)

	Fantastic Metropolis » Queen of the Martian Mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With Catherine Moore, Judith Merril and Cele Goldsmith, Leigh Brackett is one of the true godmothers of the New Wave.
		There was a time when the kind of science fantasy Brackett made her own was looked down upon as a kind of bastard progeny of science fiction (which was about scientific speculation) and fantasy (which was about magic).
		Leigh was never very easy with journeyman work, no matter how good she was when she did it.
	www.fantasticmetropolis.com /i/brackett/full (3581 words)

	The Big Sleep (1946) at Reel Classics: Article 1: Woman Who Nixed the Mimsy
		Bogart complained to Brackett that some of it was too soft; but the mushier lines were Faulkner's; after which Bogart took mimsy scripts to her for doctoring.
		Brackett wasn't in studio demand, and anyway seems to have sensibly regarded Hollywood as an interlude in her pulp-writing day job.
		Brackett gave in the first draft earlier than asked: two weeks later she died of cancer.
	www.reelclassics.com /Movies/BigSleep/bigsleep-article.htm (828 words)

	James Sallis Web Pages - The Boston Globe: A Reading Life
		When Humphrey Bogart got his copy of the script, feeling that some of his dialogue was too gentlemanly, went to Brackett to discuss it with her, he found that the parts he disliked had been written not by Brackett as he assumed but by Faulkner.
		But Leigh Brackett, first and foremost, was a writer and lover of fantasy and science fiction.
		Brackett's first novel, The Starmen, came from pioneering sf publisher Gnome Press in 1952; a year later, her most popular novel, The Sword of Rhiannon (backed by Robert E.
	www.grasslimb.com /sallis/GlobeColumns/globe.09.brackett.html (748 words)

	Leigh Brackett's No Good From a Corpse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Leigh Brackett's very first novel, the powerful No Good From a Corpse (1944) was "so Chandleresque in style and approach it might have been written by Chandler himself," according to Bill Pronzini, in Hardboiled.
		Brackett went on to work on several more projects for Hawks, as well as for other directors, including the adaptation of another Marlowe book, for Robert Altman 1973's The Long Goodbye, and the screenplay for the second (and best, IMHO) Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back.
		As well as her film work, Brackett enjoyed success in several genres: westerns (she won a 1963 Spur Award for Best Western novel for Follow the Free Wind), science fiction (Brackett is best known for her numerous sci-fi novels and short stories) and, of course, the crime genre.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /trivia/nogood.html (604 words)

	Fantasy and Science Fiction - Book Reviews
		AMONG younger readers, Leigh Brackett is likely known, if known at all, as author of the second Star Wars script and dedicatee of the movie.
		Brackett's Mercury, in the earliest stages of being colonized as a refuge for destitute, desperate veterans of the Second Interplanetary War, is the harshest and most inhospitable of these landscapes.
		Reading Brackett's earliest work again after all these years reminds me of the early hold science fiction had on me and causes me to consider how deeply not only my taste in literature but my very view of the world was formed by science fiction.
	www.sfsite.com /fsf/2003/js0312.htm (1754 words)

	Leigh Brackett
		Brackett considered her original script for El Dorado the best she had ever written, but Hawks found it too tragic; from 1930s he had generally avoided killing off his leading characters.
		Brackett worked at §750 a week in the beginning, but Hawks also hired the brothers Waldman to write separately from her with a §35,000 fee.
		Brackett's screenplay for Robert Altman's film THE LONG GOODBYE (1973) was based on the resigned novel, which Chandler published in 1953.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /brackett.htm (1828 words)

	Leigh Brackett Bibliography
		Leigh Brackett was born on December 7, 1915 in Los Angeles, and raised near Santa Monica.
		Brackett maintained an on-again/off-again relationship with Hollywood for the remainder of her life.
		Brackett married Edmond Hamilton on New Year's Eve in 1946, and the couple maintained homes in the high-desert of California and the rural farmland of Kinsman, Ohio.
	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /b/leigh-brackett (413 words)

	Leigh Brackett
		Leigh Brackett was awarded the 2005 Rediscovery Award from the Cordwainer Smith Foundation.
		Leigh Brackett (1915-1978) was a contemporary of Cordwainer Smith who wrote in several genres.
		The Best of Leigh Brackett, available used only, is a good anthology with her science fiction in it.
	www.cordwainer-smith.com /leighbrackett.htm (319 words)

	Authors and Creators: Leigh Brackett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It includes an intro by a young writer she became friends with during the early 1940s (Ray Bradbury--he later made good) and his reminiscence of that period is fascinating.
		Leigh Brackett was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 7, 1915.
		Brackett married fellow science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton in 1946, and they maintained houses in both Southern California and rural Ohio for the rest of their lives.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /trivia/brackett.html (1182 words)

	eBay - leigh brackett, Fiction Books, Magazine Back Issues items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Hounds of Skaith by Leigh Brackett (1984)
		The Hounds Of Skaith PB Leigh Brackett GD 1984
		The Hounds of Skaith by Leigh Brackett (1974)
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	The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf Paperback Science Fiction and Fantasy Books: B (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Brackett, Leigh Alpha Centauri or Die Ballantine, 1963 (01770) 70's reprint, slight wear, near F. Rebels escape repression and head for the nearest star.
		Brackett, Leigh The Sword of Rhiannon Ace, 1953 (F-422) 50's reprint, near F. One of the greatest Mars stories, from 1951.
		Brackett, Leigh The Sword of Rhiannon Ace, 1974 (79141) 70's reprint, slight wear, near F. One of the greatest Mars stories, from 1951.
	www.strangewords.com /weirdbooks/weirdpaperb2.html (4285 words)

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		Firstly, Leigh Brackett died after turning in the first draft, Lucas wrote the second and third drafts, and Lawrence Kasdan wrote drafts four and five (the revised 5th draft pretty much being the shooting script).
		Leigh Brackett definitely did not write the 4th draft then, though the dialogue here feels too removed from Kasdan's final script to be his 4th draft.
		By the by, Leigh Brackett was credited in the film because, despite not 'liking' her 1st draft screenplay, George Lucas very much liked Leigh herself and felt she had nevertheless contributed a lot to the project.
	www.benandgrover.com /ep5/scripts/ep5_dr3.txt (18898 words)

	Leigh Brackett @ Filmbug
		Leigh Brackett, although best known for her fantasy and science fiction, also wrote mystery novels and Hollywood screenplays, most notably The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1958) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980) She received the Hugo award posthumously for this in 1981.
		The latter describes an agrarian, deeply technophobic society that develops after a nuclear war, and is singled out for praise because of its more obvious relevance to the present rather than its stylistic merits.
		Tell us what you think of Leigh Brackett in the Filmbug forum...
	www.filmbug.com /db/343956 (614 words)

	Raymond Chandler and his Followers
		Leigh Brackett was an occasional writer of detective fiction, in the hard-boiled tradition of Raymond Chandler.
		Brackett takes the opposite approach, one that seems more in tune with traditional Westerns, such as Destry Rides Again (1939), in which the hero reforms the whole crooked town.
		Brackett seemed to grow as a writer as she got older.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/chandler.htm (8541 words)

	Ace Double Reviews 30
		And it is my feeling that Brackett, among her other virtues, was one of the purest conduits for Lord Dunsany's influence.
		The prose is vigorous but unrefined and at times silly (comparison with Brackett's prose is instructive -- both are pulpy and energetic, but Brackett achieves beauty at times -- Howard is often stimulating at the prose level but never beautiful).
		It is different from her Eric John Stark stories (such as those paired in the Ace Double People of the Talisman/The Secret of Sinharat) in that it is predominantly set in the distant Martian past, when the planet was verdant and its seas were full.
	www.sff.net /people/richard.horton/aced30.htm (1303 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - Leigh Brackett’s “The Empire Strikes Back” Script
		The only source we have on Brackett’s draft is from Laurent Bouzereau’s Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, which details many of the differences between it and the final film.
		“The first draft by Leigh Brackett…begins with Han and Luke on their “snow lizards” (they don’t have a name in the script), riding the plains of the Ice Planet.
		When Brackett wrote this, all she had was A New Hope, Lucas’s treatment, and her story conference notes as a reference.
	boards.theforce.net /message.asp?topic=8780834 (1679 words)

	Excessive Candour
		The strange thing is not that this is the case—over and above the fact that Hamilton and Brackett were married, there are emotional and thematic similarities between his Ruritanian space operas and her planetary romances—but that the editor(s) responsible at Haffner Press seemed to think it necessary to disguise the fact.
		The next three tales in this anthology, being by Leigh Brackett in her 1940s/1950s pomp, seem almost infinitely superior to Hamilton's prentice work (even though he'd begun to publish in 1926, and had written about 250 stories in his first two professional decades, he was a slow learner, though a steady one).
		Eric John Stark is a sort of Conan without sulks; he traverses planetary-romance versions of Venus and Mars, whups villains till they die, screws badass tall women and acts brotherly to shorter women with bare breasts (it's all right to mention breasts if they belong to your sister) who die for him, walks away.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue437/excess.html (1372 words)

	Halloween - Wikiquote
		Sheriff Leigh Brackett: [referring to a partially eaten dog] A man wouldn't do that.
		Sheriff Leigh Brackett: Well, it's going to take a lot more than fancy talk to keep me up all night crawling around these bushes.
		Sheriff Leigh Brackett: Every kid in Haddonfield thinks this place is haunted.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Halloween (868 words)

	The Big Jump, by Leigh Brackett - A Large Print Reviews Book Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Big Jump, by Leigh Brackett is a fun, well-paced story that is technically a science fiction mystery with Comyn playing the role of the rough and ready gumshoe.
		While most of her books tend to be more akin to space operas or fantasy stories, this book weighs in more on the side of hard science fiction.
		Although not a typical Brackett story, The Big Jump is entertaining and a fine example of this versatile writer's imaginative and writing style.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /bigjump.html (588 words)

	Alibris: Leigh Brackett
		Legendary SciFi writer Leigh Brackett (who won a posthumous award for the screenplay to Empire Strikes Back), began her career as a writer trying to reach the pages of Black Mask.
		The Tor Double tradition continues with two thrilling adventures--one on the planet Mars and the other in space itself--written by two of the finest adventure writers in the history of science fiction.
		About: A book written to cash in on the success of film actor George Sanders, and ghost-written by Leigh Brackett, whom the supposed author claims never to have met.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Leigh_Brackett (395 words)

	Leigh Brackett - Summary Bibliography (Long Works)
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
		Brackett, Leigh Douglass (USA, 7 December 1915 - 18 March 1978)
		The Empire Strikes Back: From the Screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan (2004) with Larry Weinberg and Lawrence Kasdan
	isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Leigh_Brackett (117 words)

	Locus Online: Media Refractions, May 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A: Look, there's no question that Leigh Brackett was one of the great screenwriters of all time.
		George had hired Leigh the way anyone would--because, oh my God, she's Leigh Brackett, and because he wanted a Hawksian, goading humor between Han Solo and Princess Leia.
		But Leigh couldn't serve George the way he wanted to be served.
	www.locusmag.com /2002/Weblogs/MediaRefractions05.html (1606 words)

	Author Information: Leigh Brackett :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		(1915 - 1978) Novelist and screenwriter, born Leigh Douglass Brackett in Los Angeles, California and raised near Santa Monica.
		In 1944, based on the hard-boiled dialogue in her first novel, No Good From a Corpse, producer/director Howard Hawks hired Brackett to collaborate with William Faulkner on the screenplay of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (1946) Brackett maintained an on-again/off-again relationship with Hollywood for the remainder of her life.
		Her last work, completed only a month before she died, was a screenplay for the Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back.
	www.iblist.com /author.php?id=632 (301 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Sea Kings of Mars: And Other Worldly Stories (Fantasy Masterworks S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Leigh Brackett is well known as the main writer on Howard Hawks's classic Bogart movie THE BIG SLEEP.
		These are fast-paced, evocative tales of a Mars where lone adventurers ride strange beasts over dead sea-bottoms, seeking the secrets of ancient races who may be largely forgotten but are not necessarily dead.
		For sheer exotic storytelling in prose which has something in common with Hammett and Chandler, you can't beat Leigh Brackett.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0575076895 (573 words)

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