Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter
Hollywood screenwriter who won two Oscars for Shakespeare in Love in 1999, one for Best Screenplay with Tom Stoppard and the other for Best Picture with the other producers of the film; member of the negotiating committee for the Writers' Guild of America during the current labor dispute; author of What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting
Being a Ghost Story of Christmas When you enter the Geffen Playhouse for “A Christmas Carol” it feels like you may have entered a victorian funeral home. The lights are dim, there’s a waft of fog blowing on stage and what appears to be a coffin surrounded by black floral arrangements. It’s spooky. It feels like you’re about to hear a ghost story. Which you are.
Jim Carrey’s cartoons, real estate love letters Jim Carrey is known as an actor and comedian, but in the last couple years he’s taken up political cartooning. He tells DnA about expressing his anti-Trump feelings through art. And buying a house in LA can be a competition. Can a personal letter to the seller give you a leg-up? The editor of “Dear Seller” shares stories of what prospective buyers write to land their dream house.