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Mendocino

(7,486 posts) Sun Mar 31, 2019, 05:26 PM Mar 2019

Best screenwriter of all time

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Best screenwriter of all time (Original Post) Mendocino Mar 2019 OP

This is marvelous! dixiegrrrrl Mar 2019 #1

Some of his lesser known Mendocino Mar 2019 #2

Not much of a list... jmowreader Mar 2019 #3

I learned a term watching the sports channels recently: Recency Bias. Iggo Mar 2019 #5

Cool vid blogslut Mar 2019 #4

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

1. This is marvelous!

Reply to Mendocino (Original post)

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 06:24 PM

Mar 2019

Wilder films are such fun to watch, the insight into his writing is wonderful.

Mendocino

(7,486 posts)

2. Some of his lesser known

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 06:58 PM

Mar 2019

films like The Fortune Cookie and One,Two,Three are gems. Walter Matthau and James Cagney steal the show.

jmowreader

(50,556 posts)

3. Not much of a list...

Reply to Mendocino (Original post)

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 07:34 PM

Mar 2019

when Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People) gets on it and Stirling Silliphant (In The Heat of the Night, Route 66, The Towering Inferno) does not.

Iggo

(47,551 posts)

5. I learned a term watching the sports channels recently: Recency Bias.

Reply to jmowreader (Reply #3)

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 09:59 PM

Mar 2019

Not sure if that's what's happening here, but it does seem to be a thing.

blogslut

(37,999 posts)

4. Cool vid

Reply to Mendocino (Original post)

Sun Mar 31, 2019, 08:43 PM

Mar 2019

Thanks!

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