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Nov. 11th, 2007 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithOne of the books on my Amazon wishlist is Schmucks with Underwoods: Conversations with America's Classic Screenwriters. The title, according to the blurb, was Jack L Warner's term for the "chumps who cranked out scripts on his lot."
I don't know why writers have never received any respect. I remember reading about life on the set of the 80s nighttime soap Dynasty, where assistants for Joan Collins and Linda Evans examined the scripts and one camp raised a stink if the other actress had more lines of dialogue. It became less about story and more about balancing divas. Words became a way of keeping score.
Would have loved to see Collins and Evans try improv.
Very much with the writers on this--do I need to say that? Because if the studios didn't believe that online content was valuable, they wouldn't argue so vehemently that it isn't.
Read this if you want to know more. Thanks to Doris Egan for taking the time to write it.
I don't know why writers have never received any respect. I remember reading about life on the set of the 80s nighttime soap Dynasty, where assistants for Joan Collins and Linda Evans examined the scripts and one camp raised a stink if the other actress had more lines of dialogue. It became less about story and more about balancing divas. Words became a way of keeping score.
Would have loved to see Collins and Evans try improv.
Very much with the writers on this--do I need to say that? Because if the studios didn't believe that online content was valuable, they wouldn't argue so vehemently that it isn't.
Read this if you want to know more. Thanks to Doris Egan for taking the time to write it.
