Screenwriter

Screenwriters Find Work is Dwindling

Source: Michael Ricci
July 2, 2010

Looking to cut costs, Hollywood studios recast the rules under which they have long hired writers.

Screenwriter David Steinberg was invited last fall by a producer to pitch his idea for a rewrite of a “high-concept comedy" about an adult slacker for a major studio. Steinberg figured he had a good shot at the assignment with credits like “American Pie 2" under his belt, even though he heard there were many other writers competing for the opening. After an initial ...
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Italian Screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, Co-Wrote 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' and 'The Postman,'

Source: Michael Ricci
April 28, 2010

Oscar-nominated screenwriter Furio Scarpelli, who co-wrote some of the best Italian comedies of the postwar period and who ventured into the spaghetti- western genre with the “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," had died, his family said Wednesday. He was 90. Scarpelli died at his home in Rome shortly after midnight, his son, Matteo Scarpelli, told the Associated Press. He had long suffered from heart problems. During a decades-long, prolific partnership with Agenore Incrocci, who went by the name ...
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Horton Foote Playwright, Screenwriter Chronicled Small-Town Southern Life Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
March 7, 2009

Horton Foote, whose bittersweet stories of heartbreak and regret set in small Southern towns earned him wide popular acclaim as well as two Academy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, died Wednesday. He was 92.

Foote died in his sleep at his apartment in Hartford, Conn., said Paul Marte, a spokesman for the Hartford Stage theater company. Foote was in Hartford with his family, including his actress daughter Hallie and son-in-law Devon Abner, who are appearing in a stage adaptation of ...
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