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From reelz channel, James Vanderbilt, the writer of Zodiac, pens a draft.

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
– Mark Twain

from Creative Screenwriting Weekly- A free magazine on screenwriting delivered to you weekly via e-mail.

Just watched the pawnbroker.  Brock Peters, who plays the businessman (OK. . . I mean gangster) Rodriguez,  also sang back-up on the Harry Belafonte hit- “Day-O.”  He punches an old man in the face– which is something you don’t usually see in movies these days.  Also, Quincy Jones did the music, and one of the songs is Soul Bossa Nova (which is now popular from Austin Powers– you’d recognize it, if you heard it). 

Kind of a slow movie (if you are in that mood)– but I liked it. 

More recent movies that some of the elements reminded me of: Requiem for a Dream and Do the Right Thing.

Cool Shot: 3 hoods enter the pawnshop with an old electric lawn mover. the camera, at the level of the lawnmower dollys back, as the lawnmower, pushed by the hoods, rolls toward the store owner, Sol.

This guy does a better job of reviewing it.

Drew from Dumbworld

Technically, not free, but Ron and Melinda Rucker are giving away their Sacramento, California ice cream and coffee shop to the person they think will be the most successful at running it.
 
All you have to do is write an essay of 100-300 words on “Why I want to own Here’s the Scoop!…” and send $150 to enter.  The deadline is Nov 30th, 2008.
 
Entries can be submitted at their website: www.winthisbiz.com.