Jean-Pierre sent me a link this morning to this hilarious article in the New York Times:
A Screenwriter Shoots His Own Unproduced Scripts, With a Gun
« Many a Hollywood screenwriter has bemoaned the brutal Darwinism of the movie business, has felt the dull pain of too many pages and too many years of orphaned work unproduced and unrecognized. Few, however, have found the path of catharsis and creativity discovered by Mr. Benedek. […]
In the Hollywood hierarchy, the screenwriter is Everyman, an undervalued cog – albeit a well-paid one – in the whirring entertainment machine. Mr. Benedek’s move to take control of his own work sounds like a dark fantasy for many of the movie world’s ink-stained wretches. »