Scripts Make the Difference

I noticed the following comments in a recent issue of People Magazine - in an article on summer stinkers in the movie business:

Why The Last Airbender didn't work: Bad acting, lame visuals, and a script that bends logic.

Why The Killers didn't work: The actors had no chemistry - and painful jokes.

Why Jonah Hex didn't work: The holes in the script are bigger than the one in Hex's face.

Notice the common denominator: bad script, bad jokes, bad script.

You can have the best actors in the world, but if the script isn't right, the movie will never work.



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First Million Selling Ebook Author: James Patterson

Hachette Book Group, the publisher for James Patterson's novels, announced that he has now sold 1.14 million units of ebooks for Kindle, iPad, and other ebook readers.

The top seller is his most recent novel, I, Alex Cross. Patterson has sold more than 205 million copies of his novels around the world.

Patterson supports the sales of his ebooks. As he has said, "If e-books get people who might otherwise not be reading to pick up a book, then that makes me happy."

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A Great First Line for a Novel

I happened to see this first line from a new novel featured in Time Magazine:

"It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel."

Quiet, interesting, intriguing.

The novel is Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad.