Unofficial Academy Awards Discussion Board

Check out this book and perhaps this one. They're among the best books of their kind I've seen. But basically the best advice is to establish a publishing record first. Publish short fiction where you can. ( HINT ). And then have a resume you can present to publishers. But remember -- for every tho...

Hi O.G. I wish you all the luck with your publishing. As a successful (read: published... not too recently, come to think of it) fantasy writer myself, I've adopted a policy of never reading anything unpublished... too many nasty legal situations have happened to too many writers. But keep at it; p...

I'm Zach Campbell. Don't bother looking me up, I didn't present at SCMS. I'm a first year MA at NYU, just biding my time until doctoral work (which I'm ready for yesterday ). Sadly I won't be going to Tokyo, barring some freak monetary windfall in my personal life or in my department. Neither is li...

Damien, I'm very, very curious as to how news of my SCMS presentation reached you. A friend who was attending sent me the schedule. I wasn't the only friend of Damien's at SCMS--Ed Sikov gave a talk, for example--but I did fwd Damien a link to the conference program. (I am also a film studies acade...

Murray, what films are you dealing with in your course? As someone who passionately believes in ghosts -- and is dying to meet one -- it sounds fascinating. I know that last week at SCMS you gave a talkon a French magician in Algeria, which also seems hugely interesting. Damien, I'm very, very curi...

I hope his movies will be treated kindly. The English Patient was a big movie for me when I was younger, and I spent a pleasant afternoon on the third day of 2000 watching Talented Mr. Ripley by myself; both movies I quite enjoyed but haven't seen since. I had actually borrowed Cold Mountain yester...

If, for example, a woman has been raped and doesn't want a baby. Is it right for her to kill the baby inside her to "undo" the crime? Two wrongs don't make a right. In fact, instead of making her feel better it may make her feel more guilt. A new life can be seen as a good thing coming fr...

I remember Big Magilla posting "Globes Night: The Night I Crossed the Thin Red Line." Not so hard to date that one. That doesn't sound like something I would come up with. I'm pretty sure. Could have been someone else, I guess. I remember very heated exchanges that evening, though I don't...

Wow, I was gonna relay that very story when I had a few minutes and you beat me to it. Although the way I heard it, Hoffman was forcing himself to run several miles around the park in order to look like a genuine marathoner coming off of a run, and that's what disconcerted Olivier. Oh, god. No offe...

Mister Tee wrote:Who the hell is Jonah Hill?

Jack Black's understudy.

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"Huck's Tune" is by Bob Dylan. Flew way under the radar along with the film it was in. Not a bad song, though. It's curious because Dylan's previous song for a movie, "Tell Ol' Bill" from North Country, was mysteriously not submitted.