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By Scott Eyman 10/23/07 5:48pm

From Hecht to Tarantino, a Screenwriter Unspools the Talents and Near-Talents

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN SCREENWRITING
By Marc Norman.
Harmony, 560 pages, $27

There have been thousand of books about actors and hundreds about directors, but you can practically count the number of books about screenwriters on two hands.

This latest is the best—by far.

In What Happens Next, Read More

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Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week

If you miss Cary Grant as much as I do-and I mean not only the movie star, the actor, the man, but also the kind of civilized style and ebullient, urbane and witty persona the name calls to mind-there are two good opportunities to see the original article. Both were made by Grant’s favorite director Read More

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