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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › John_CarpenterJohn Carpenter - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror , action , and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. [1]

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Aaron_SorkinAaron Sorkin - Wikipedia

    3 days ago · Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Born in New York City, he developed a passion for writing at an early age.

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  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Academy_Award_for_Best_AdaptedAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay - Wikipedia

    Jul 4, 2024 · The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.

  5. www.britannica.com › biography › George-ClooneyGeorge Clooney | Biography, TV Shows, Movies, & Facts

    4 days ago · George Clooney, American actor and filmmaker who was a popular leading man and a respected director and screenwriter. His movies included Three Kings (1999), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Ocean’s Eleven (2001), Syriana (2005), Up in the Air (2009), The Descendants (2011), and Gravity (2013).

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  6. www.britannica.com › biography › John-Gay-British-authorJohn Gay | British Poet, Playwright & Satirist | Britannica

    Jun 26, 2024 · John Gay was an English poet and dramatist, chiefly remembered as the author of The Beggar’s Opera, a work distinguished by good-humoured satire and technical assurance. A member of an ancient but impoverished Devonshire family, Gay was educated at the free grammar school in Barnstaple.

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  7. www.lrb.co.uk › on-satire-john-gay-s-beggar-s-operaPodcast: Clare Bucknell and Colin Burrow · On Satire: John Gay’s...

    Jun 28, 2024 · John Gay’s 1727 smash hit ‘opera’, which ran for 62 performances in its first run, put the highwaymen, criminal gangs and politicians of the day up on stage, and offered audiences a tuneful but unnerving reflection of their own corruption and mortality.

  8. johnaugust.comScreenwriter and author John August

    4 days ago · John welcomes Simon Rich (Man Seeking Woman, Miracle Workers) to look at how he crafts a comedic premise. Using his work on SNL, his time writing Inside Out at Pixar and his plethora of short stories, they look at how he develops a funny idea into a story with narrative and emotional punch.