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Yan Lianke is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing. His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in some of his most renowned works being banned. This book talks about his love, career, path to fame and his inspirations.
一个被名利裹挟的作家“阎连科” 一段写实名利场的非虚构 一场场非爱非情的回忆和记述 一桩桩情节与事件的肯定与否定 一种又一种声音的交叉和叠加...
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Lady Windermere misinterprets her husband's interest in an older woman, Mrs. Erlynne, causing a rift that could lead to both marital and societal ruin. Lady Windermere's Fan Is an intriguing tale that examines intention versus outcome in a world driven by perception.
Lady Windermere is a young wife who's concerned by her husband's connection to the mysterious, Mrs. Erlynne. She believes the woman is a threat to her marriage and livelihood. Despite...
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"At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings. In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans, Albus Dumbledore enlists Newt, his former Hogwarts...
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A Comedy about Zen Buddhism? Hai!Or maybe "Haiku":Art Westin goes East;A Salesman who finds The Light;Occidentally.Or even more "Occidentally":Art Westin - high-strung, plugged-in, always-selling - is forced to spend a week in a Japanese Zen monastery......where he encounters a unique koan ("riddle") of philosophy and phunny......culminating in a moment of satori ("insight") that changes his life.But will this enlightenment last when he returns to...
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Although her responsibility is for Easter Europe, NSA satellite analyst Keely Krebs is studying images from Peru where her brother is prospecting for oil when she sees an anomaly that changes her life. Rather than do what the doctors tell her she needs to do to delay her death from lupus, Keely decides to go to Peru, see the giant pictographs at Atacampa and Nacza that she and other researchers suspect were made by aliens, and see her brother-maybe...
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Everyone has a dream. For Giacomo Pasquale, the new don of a Brooklyn mob, it is to restore the financial glory of his gang by going into new businesses. For Pasquale's disinherited gay son, Angel, it is to see his lover, Brice, starring on Broadway. For Mort Apple, a down-on-his luck theater producer, it is to have a shot at making enough money that he won't starve to death in his old age. For Pasquale's wife, Carmina, and mother-in-law, Nonni, it...
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The Far Corner is an intense psychological, supernatural narrative reminiscent of movies like The Sixth Sense, Gothika, or even Jacob's Ladder.When a driven businesswoman collapses into psychosis ranting about creatures, she's sent to a mental hospital where a psychiatrist and two investigators of paranormal phenomena discover she might not be crazy after all-she might have the ability to see into another dimension.Notes from competitions:- Jim Henson's...
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Connie is a little 10 year old girl who steals wherever she goes, and she carries with her a big blue bag in which she puts all her stolen goods. Whether she robs a sweet shop or a toy store makes no difference, she is keen to get whatever she wants at any cost.When she visits her Uncle Rob at his house unexpectedly, he is not too happy to see her after receiving a letter she was on her way. Once Connie arrives there's chaos everywhere then the neighbours...
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When you are lost and confused, it usually starts at a young age You’re not who you are solely on what happen to you on yesterday. You are who you are on, what happen to you on all the other days But The days that lead yu up to yesterday, are the days to tale, tale(Debbie Lewis)From the beginning Now The way I view life, is shared with others in our everyday life. From a child until the day we are depending on ourselves to provide for ourselves...
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Written in dialogue to make the story flow, as are all my stories, more or less plays or scripts with an edge for people too easily comprehend them as a story with none of the waffling . This series is based around women who are hitting sixty and some who are already beyond that age progressing into a new era in their lives.
12) Plan B
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Plan B is my dark comedy screenplay adapted in book format. The screenplay is actually 103 pages.Logline: A family's rationality snaps after trying to deal with their out-of-control teenager; they decide it's time for Plan B... kill the little bastard... and get away with it.Synopsis:They're out there – families silently dealing with rotten teenagers. The Undertosh family decided that they were sick of walking on eggshells around Juice (Kevin),...
13) For Annabelle
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A Backpacker goes from store to store where he engages in conversations with clerks before killing them and robbing their money, all in search of a something very specific.
14) Trivial Pursuits
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It ain't dinner theater."TRIVIAL PURSUITS" is a 3-act, 4-character, 1-set play that asks: "How much can an audience learn about a bunch of guys who are sitting around a table playing a board game?" Because that's about the only action taking place on stage.Unless you count the struggle for Timmy's soul.TIMMY is the timid host of this week's gathering, which includes buddies TOM, the skirt-chaser; ROD, the logic-monger; and BEAR, the large and shambling...
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A new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie Auster.
From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions and Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster is one of America's most spectacularly inventive novelists. Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge established him as an award-winning filmmaker. The Inner Life of Martin Frost brings together his talents as a novelist and...
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Quintessential Coen brothers fare, but different. Inside Llewyn Davis has a certain kinship with Les Misérables. In it almost all the principal actors, Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake, sing. While not quite a musical, Inside Llewyn Davis is, built around full-length performances of folk songs that were, heard in the grubby cafes of the Village in a year when Bob Dylan, who kind of, sort of shows up in the movie, had just appeared on...
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A screenplay set in a fictional frame, this tale of two generations offers a questioning take on the western. Eager to head up the thriving enterprise her father made of his pioneer ranch, Hallie Bonfield returns home from school in the East to find trouble waiting. As a former romance with her ranch manager, Ken McKenna, reignites, she learns he intends to confront a neighboring rancher in a likely fatal encounter. Appalled, she strives to deter...
18) Take Off!
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This is a television pilot package, specifically a 1/2 hour comedy series that offers "a behind-the-scenes look at a locally-funded travel show that reports from destinations around the world on a VERY low budget."Ironically, it was written just before the proliferation of unscripted TV.Not so ironically, it was written "on spec" (speculation), meaning no one hired me to develop this concept. I did it because I liked it. Thought it had potential.Still...
19) The Barn
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This is a Television Pilot Package, specifically a 1/2 hour dramedy about "a struggling community theater, presented in 5-episode arcs each based on a well-known musical."I wrote "THE BARN" several years ago, well before the coupling of Song and Series began to dominate the televised landscape. Perhaps that's why, at the time, this particular programming barn was never "raised".It would still be a risky venture, mainly because of its unique format.And...
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This collection of comedy sketches written by Richard Jensen are guaranteed to bring a smile to geeks and non geeks alike. In these sketches you'll meet...-A Demon from Hell who can't buy a soul to save his own-A Restaurant patron who uses modern technology to destroy a way too happy couple who are running his meal.-Friends who debate the effects of favorite movies on President Politics.-A woman who is way too found of Jar-Jar Binks.And many others.Besides...
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