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‘The Ben Hecht Show’ highlights spiritual side of the Oscar-winning screenwriter
His star has largely faded with the years, but in his day — the 1920s through the mid-’60s — writer Ben Hecht was an icon.
Don Mankiewicz dies at 93
Writer Don Mankiewicz, nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of “I Want to Live!”died peacefully at home, surrounded by family, friends and the two loves of his life, his wife Carol and his dog, Valentina.
Mark Boal’s journey from journalism to movie chronicler of the Middle-East wars
The time: 2003. The place: Black Site: Undisclosed Location. A battered man strung up by his wrists is being questioned by an interrogator. When he refuses to answer he is forced to the ground and held down by three men wearing ski masks.
Dan Fogelman explores romance’s range in ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’
A couple years after his Reform bar mitzvah, screenwriter Dan Fogelman devoured Philip Roth’s controversial novel “Portnoy’s Complaint.” The tome was a gift from his cousin, Ken Gordon, now the editor of the Jewish Webzine JBooks.com, “a very literary guy who was my hero growing up,” Fogelman said from New York, where he was doing press for his new comedy, “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
TV: From Bensonhurst to Vermont, via Hollywood
Gary David Goldberg did not set out to be a screenwriter. He was already 30 when a teacher at San Diego State University guided him toward the profession. That fateful nudge set Goldberg on his path to becoming a successful writer/producer and director of a string of films and television shows that include \”Spin City,\” \”Brooklyn Bridge\” and the phenomenally popular sitcom, \”Family Ties.\”
Oscar nod for ‘Unsentimental’ Jew
Profile of screenwriter, novelist, and playwright, Ronald Harwood, nominated at this year\’s Oscars for \”The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.\”