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Touch: Series Premiere
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As someone who watched <em>Heroes</em> two seasons past its creative expiration date, one goes into the next Tim Kring-helmed series with a certain level of trepidation. In an ideal world, the failures of a past projectshouldn’t reflect on a new television venture. (Just as every post-<em>24</em> Kiefer Sutherland project shouldn’t judge him by a Jack Bauer standard. Yeah right.) But we genre geeks are a once bitten, we-will-hold-this-grudge-forever bunch. So<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thescriptlab/TotalTSL/~4/ihPWkmq69DU" height="1" width="1"/>
- — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:38:48 GMT; Examining the Sports Narrative, Part 5: Legacy
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“If you lose the last one of the season, nobody gives a shit about the others.” – Billy Beane, <em>Moneyball</em> (2011 Motion Picture)</p>
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Despite our limited cultural attention span, it would be far too simplistic to claim that Beane’s quote is an accurate metaphor for all aspects of our lives, especially with regard to death. We generally reflect upon our departed with forgiving hearts, willing to overlook (or diminish) their more negative qualities or<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thescriptlab/TotalTSL/~4/ZJRpAcg_Paw" height="1" width="1"/>
- — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:07:28 GMT; Sideways (2004)
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<strong>Screenplay Genre</strong>: Indie Comedy Drama Romance</p>
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<strong>Movie Time</strong>: 126 minutes</p>
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<strong>Synopsis: </strong>Depressed writer Miles (Paul Giamatti) and aging actor Jack (Thomas Haden Church) take a trip through the California Wine Country the week before Jack’s wedding with two very different agendas. Jack wants to have one last fling before marriage and Miles wants to have a fun week with his best friend. Along the way they are detoured by waitress Maya (Virginia<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thescriptlab/TotalTSL/~4/Bl3TFW5Rl54" height="1" width="1"/>
- — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:33:40 GMT; Breaking the Story: Five Helpful Steps
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When you’re staring at page 42 and your eyes start to crust over, you may wish you spent a little more time breaking your story in prep. Sometimes, though, it's just way too tempting to jump right in, and we just can't wait. You hear about scripts that were written over a weekend, or entire films made from improv. And yes, some of them are good, but those tend to be one out of a<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thescriptlab/TotalTSL/~4/aoLvVmAN5UI" height="1" width="1"/>
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