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		<title>How Do Ya Like Them Apples?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	For years I&#8217;ve heard the phrase bandied around:
How do you like them apples?

	Now I finally have a source. A little smart googling brought me to this entry in the Urban Dictionary site and it turns out it&#8217;s a line from Howard Hawks&#8217; Rio Bravo.

	In the movie Stumpy, played by Walter Brennan, tosses a grenade and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/12/12/how-do-ya-like-them-apples/</link>
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		<title>On Miyazaki: The Films That Make Themselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Written as a Film Note for Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

	&#8220;I&#8217;m not a storyteller, I&#8217;m a man who draws pictures,&#8221; says Hayao Miyazaki the super-director of some of the highest grossing Japanese films of all time, such as My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and most recently, Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle.

	In Hollywood, children&#8217;s films in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/09/01/on-miyazaki-the-films-that-make-themselves/</link>
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		<title>On Shane Black and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Written as a Film Note for Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

	
Shane Black, the writer and director of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, was the original Hollywood screenwriting fairy tale. At the age of 24, in 1985, he sold his first screenplay for a quarter of a million dollars and in the process invented a certain kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/06/08/on-shane-black-and-kiss-kiss-bang-bang/</link>
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		<title>15 Facts About Gore and &#8220;An Inconvenient Truth&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	An Inconvenient Truth is a fantastic film. I saw it this past weekend and would encourage everyone to see it- take friends, families and especially that special skeptic you know. To quote Roger Ebert In 39 years, I have never written these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/06/05/14-facts-about-gore-and-an-inconvenient-truth/</link>
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		<title>Kelly, Astaire and Effects in Dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Written as a Film Note for Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

There is an old Hollywood story that goes something like this. Only three years and six movies into his acting career, Gene Kelly had a novel idea for his next film, 1945&#8217;s Anchor&#8217;s Aweigh. He wanted to dance with an animated character and his first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/05/23/kelly-astaire-and-effects-in-dance/</link>
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		<title>On Stanley Donen and On the Town</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Written as a Film Note for Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Stanley Donen was never nominated for an Oscar, so in 1998, the Academy did what was right and awarded him an honorary Academy Award. Donen danced with his Oscar on stage before declaring the secret behind his directorial success. &#8220;You show up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/05/22/on-stanley-donen-and-on-the-town/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Art&#8221; Films Coming to the Megaplex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Mark Cuban&#8217;s Landmark Theatre chain has 57 theatres with 213 screens in the United States which makes it the largest chain that focuses on independent/foreign/art films- until now. According to StudioBriefing AMC is getting in to the game:Kansas City-based AMC Theatres, the No. 2 U.S. movie chain after Regal Theaters, said today (Tuesday) that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/05/05/art-films-coming-to-the-megaplex/</link>
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		<title>Akeelah and the Bee (2006)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Akeelah and the Bee is one of the great sport movies of all time- except that it does not really a sport. The sport is spelling, but the theme and plot are as old as rooting for the underdog.
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		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/05/01/akeelah-and-the-bee-2006/</link>
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		<title>The Screenwriter’s Vow of Air Vent Chastity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Screenwriter John August, who I have been reading (on his blog and IMDb) for many years, and have been watching lazily since Charlie&#8217;s Angels and more closely since Big Fish has a great post on his blog today about an overused film clich&#233; (I copied and pasted that accented &#8216;&#233;&#8217; because I have no clue [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/04/26/the-screenwriter%e2%80%99s-vow-of-air-vent-chastity/</link>
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		<title>The Writers Guild&#8217;s Favorite Screenplays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Writers Guild of America (WGA)- i.e. the labor union for screenplay writers- just released their picks for the top 101 screenplays of all time as voted by members of the guild.
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		<link>http://www.widescreenglory.com/2006/04/23/the-writers-guilds-favorite-screenplays/</link>
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