Recent Posts Tagged With 'screenwriters'

• Douglas Coupland

  Posted on Monday December 29th, 2008 at 18:01 in artists, writers, Generation X, playwrights, leftfield avant-garde, screenwriters

  Douglas Coupland born 30 December 1961Douglas Coupland is a major Canadian fiction writer as well as a playwright and visual artist.His first book, the 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, became an international bestseller and ...

• Jason Gould

  Posted on Saturday December 27th, 2008 at 18:01 in actors, film directors, screenwriters

  Jason Gould born 28 December 1966Jason Emanuel Gould is an American actor, writer and director. His parents are Barbra Streisand and Elliott Gould, who divorced a few years after his birth. Born in New York, Gould spent his formative years around maj...

• Simon Raven

  Posted on Saturday December 27th, 2008 at 18:01 in television, writers, novelists, bisexuals, screenwriters

  Simon Raven born 28 December 1927 (d. 2001)Simon Arthur Noël Raven was a novelist, journalist and dramatist. His obituary in The Guardian noted that, 'he combined elements of Flashman, Waugh's Captain Grimes and the Earl of Rochester.'He attended fi...

• Roland Emmerich

  Posted on Sunday November 9th, 2008 at 18:01 in Film, film producers, germans, film directors, screenwriters

  Roland Emmerich born 10 November 1955Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer.Emmerich was born in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He attended the University of Television and Film Munich from 1977 to 1981 and his...

• Terrence McNally

  Posted on Sunday November 2nd, 2008 at 18:01 in musical theatre, playwrights, tony award winners, emmy award winners, screenwriters

  Terrence McNally born 3 November 1939Terrence McNally is an American playwright.He was born in St Petersburg, Florida and raised in Texas. In 1956, McNally moved to New York City to attend Columbia University to major in English, graduating in 1960.A...

• Moss Hart

  Posted on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 at 18:01 in hollywood, broadway, musical theatre, playwrights, tony award winners, pulitzer prize winners, theatre directors, screenwriters

  Moss Hart born 24 October 1904 (d. 1961)Moss Hart was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theatre.After working several years as a director of amateur theatrical groups and an entertainment director at summer resorts, he scored h...

• Bill Condon

  Posted on Tuesday October 21st, 2008 at 18:01 in film directors, screenwriters, academy award oscar winners

  Bill Condon born 22 October 1955Bill Condon is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and director.William Condon was born October 22, 1955 into an Irish Catholic family in Queens, New York.In his second year of high school Condon began his f...

• James Robert Baker

  Posted on Friday October 17th, 2008 at 18:01 in novelists, anarchists, death by suicide, screenwriters

  James Robert Baker born 18 October 1946 (d. 1997)James Robert Baker was an American author of sharply satirical, predominantly gay-themed transgressional fiction.A native Californian, his work is set almost entirely in Southern California. After grad...

• Gore Vidal

  Posted on Saturday October 4th, 2008 at 18:01 in writers, novelists, activists, screenwriters

  Gore Vidal born 5 October 1925Eugene Luther Gore Vidal is a prolific and versatile American writer of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays.As a novelist, playwright, essayist, mystery writer (under the pseudonym Edgar Box), screenwriter, soci...

• Pedro Almodóvar

  Posted on Tuesday September 23rd, 2008 at 18:01 in film directors, screenwriters, academy award oscar winners

  Pedro Almodóvar born 24 September 1951Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. He is the most successful and internationally known Spanish film maker of his generation, having won numerous Academy Awards, BAF...