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'Awards Chatter' Podcast — Screenwriting Master Robert McKee
3 hours ago
"The art of story makes us civilized, makes life worth living," Robert McKee, the best-selling author (Story: Style, Structure, Substance and the Principles of Screenwriting) and legendary lecturer ("Story: A McKee Seminar") on the topic of screenwriting, says as we sit down to record an episode of the 'Awards Chatter' podcast on the eve of one of his biannual screenwriting seminars in Los Angeles. Virtually everyone in show business knows who the 75-year-old is (if not from his work then from his portrayal in the 2002 film Adaptation), and many have paid good money to find
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- Scott Feinberg
N.W.A, Chicago, Cheap Trick Join Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
15 hours ago
New York (AP) — Los Angeles rappers N.W.A, whose legacy gained new life with the hit movie Straight Outta Compton, joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Friday, along with a quartet of 1970s-era rock acts. Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple and Steve Miller also were honored at a ceremony at Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Barclays Center. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich described seeing the first inductees, Deep Purple, when he was 9 years old and was taken to the band's concert in Copenhagen. He said it changed his life. "Almost without exception, every hard rock
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- The Associated Press
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