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• When I'm not hiding in my cave as I am known to do I can be found wandering the streets of Brooklyn mumbling to myself. Read more about William Speruzzi.

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  William is thinking about reading a seedy Jim Thompson novel, again.

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• Watch My Short 'The Face Of The Earth'

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• Short Ends

  • Megalopolis
    

    The unproduced Francis Ford Coppola screenplay is available as a PDF for download. All 211 pages.

  • Read Before Submitting
    

    Don't waste people's time with that shitty screenplay you wrote.

  • Hollywood 2.0
    

    John Ott, writer, filmmaker and futurist, gives us some very interesting thoughts on why failure is part of the big picture and why indie filmmakers have it all wrong (I agree with him.)

  • Thompson On Hollywood Update
    

    Film columnist Anne Thompson's independent site has officially launched via the IndieWire blog network.

  • Jack Talks To Betty Draper
    

    Jack Nicholson interviews January Jones for Interview Magazine.

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  • John in Los Angeles on SAG Announces New and Revised Low Budget Agreements
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  When I’m told that our films are painful, I think, oh God, I know real pain. We soften our pictures so tremendously. We make them almost romantic fantasies, and just barely touch on these things in a more idealistic way than other people do. — John Cassavetes

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