Old Friends (2004), for example, consists mostly of a series of conversations between two aging men who have spent their lives close to each other, working as professors, trying to write.
The men got to know each other working as character actors on TV shows filmed in Georgia, including "In the Heat of the Night". They saw their livelihood threatened by other states offering richer deals to Hollywood and joined a coalition of state film industry advocates campaigning for more attractive incentives.
Artists gather in cells of four, six or eight individuals who support each others' work as well as each others' lives by sharing living space, profits, workspace, emotions, beans and rice and housecleaning.
The process by which scientists judge each others work as fit for publication has always been where objective science dashes on the rocks of subjective human opinion, but the emails are alleged to show much worse — censorship, exclusion of critics and deliberate attempts to steer the process to keep away unfavourable results.
Outside the blue hut is a plaque with a beautifully calligraphed set of rules and regulations – athletes must train hard, respect each other, work as a team and honour their homeland.
"The boys pulled together at half time and when we came out it was a much more solid team performance in the second half, everyone playing for each other, everyone working as hard as they could for each other and it's really pleasing".
The odd-couple formula — beauty and brains, each man desperately needing the other — works as well as it does because Tatum and Hill aren't forced to do everything in tandem.
It is a huge exercise that sees panels of academics reviewing each others' work and passing judgments as to its quality.
Between 2002 and 2005, a member of each of these tribes found themselves sitting at desks opposite each other while working as political advisers for former Lib Dem leader Lord Ashdown, the international community's special representative to Bosnia.
Ondříček and Forman got to know each other when working as assistants at Barrandov Studios, in Prague, and while attending Famu, the Prague film school.
"We are all learning from each other and working as a team to be successful," said Glendale Fire Battalion Chief Tom Propst.
