Armed with such experiences, my writer pals and I took personally Amazon's assault on the kinds of stores that hand-sold our books before anybody knew who we were, back before Amazon or the Internet itself existed.
Channeling the hot blood of shame and regret, she and her actor and writer pals told their stories in "Fired!," a one-night-only presentation held on Monday at the Second Stage Theater.
A teen Romeo pulls an aspiring-writer pal into his plan to sell cheap sunglasses to Southern California beachgoers.
It also features a pithy shorthand turn from Alec Baldwin, but for those who prefer him flabby and ever-present there's Seduced and Abandoned (Soda, 15), a droll if dauntlessly smug not-quite-documentary starring Baldwin as himself, swanning around the Cannes film festival with his leering writer-director pal James Toback.
Corey Ford, a writer and a pal of The New Yorker's founding editor, Harold Ross, gave him his name.
We'll see when it comes out, but at least we know the Piven obit writer gets to pal around with John Cusack.
Graeme Virtue Ellen Page – flanked by her best pal, writer and film-maker Ian Daniel – begins a smart four-part exploration of global queer cultures.
When it came to the question of moral responsibility for the war, Serbians had, as writer's reporter pal Milan Vasic liked to put it, "a blind spot the size of Bosnia-Herzegovina". Writer describes the mentality of a woman he met at a showing of Srdjan Dragojevic's "Pretty Villages, Pretty Flames"... "You never hear of a Serb just dying in battle," Vasic likes to say.
Mr. Clooney, Matt Damon (Mr. Affleck's childhood friend and "Good Will Hunting" co-writer), his brother Casey Affleck, pals like Bradley Cooper and select nonentertainment industry confidants served as sounding boards, helping convince Mr. Affleck that he had nailed the tone.
But Pig is encouraging: "You're a good writer!" he tells his pal, which inspires Rabbit to write, "Number 4 — I love Pig because he gives good compliments".
