Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial for the client and neats up their old romance. Wife and girlfriend struggle over Bill.
A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During the honeymoon, all hell breaks loose as a comedic war of the sexes leads inevitably to love.
Glenn Tyler (Elvis Presley) er en begavet, men socialt belastet ung mand, der har et sjældent litterært talent. Efter en ulykkelig udgang på et slagsmål tiltales Glenn for manddrab, men hans psykiater, Irene Speery (Hope Lange), forsøger at få ham ind på den rette vej igen. Sideløbende fristes han også af Noreen (Thuesday Weld) og Betty Lee (Millie Perkins), men i sidste ende vælger han alligevel den rette. Elvis leverer flere sange i filmen, herunder - naturligvis - "Wild in the Country".
Uses live action and still photography to show how to develop paragraphs logically according to time, space or contrast. Suggests the use of transitions to connect ideas smoothly.
The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.
Kristiania 1890. En ung digter og forfatter flakker rundt i Norges hovedstad, hvor han kæmper med skuffelser, nederlag og sult. Han forsøger at skrive, mens han forgæves søger arbejde for at tjene til lejen for sit usle kammer og det daglige brød. Intet lykkes, og sulten presser ham dybere og dybere ned i en sindsforvirring, der opløser virkeligheden for ham.
Author Frank's debut novel is successful, but he needs the proceeds to pay off a debt and his girlfriend Mascha ends their relationship. He meets another woman, but he and Mascha also seem to make amends. These amorous vicissitudes give him inspiration for a new book, which will deal with eroticism in the Netherlands.
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, er en journalist, der rasende prøver at afslutte en historie om hans tidligere advokat og ven, Carl Lazlo. Thompson tænker tilbage til en række bedrifter, der involverer forfatteren og hans advokat. I 1968 kæmper Lazlo for at stoppe en gruppe unge fra at modtage hårde fængselsstraffe for besiddelse af marihuana. Han overbeviser Thompson om at skrive en artikel om det til Blast Magazine. Historien om retssagen er en sensation, men Thompson hører først fra Lazlo fire år senere, da Thompson er på opgave. Hvor han dækker Super Bowl VI i Los Angeles. Lazlo møder op på Thompsons hotel og overbeviser ham om at opgive Super Bowl -historien og slutte sig til hans frihedskæmpere. Thompsons berømmelse fortsætter. Han er et hit på college forelæsningsbanen og dækker præsidentvalgkampen i 1972.
Det er en dramatisk beretning, baseret på en virkelig begivenhed om tre australske officerer, der under Boerkrigen stilles for en krigsret for at have myrdet nogle fanger og en tysk minister. De anklagedes sagfører (Jack Thompson) får én dag til at forberede et forsvar.
When a professional couple, who have lived and worked together for many years, finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpected difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different from being "best friends."
Hannah's eksmand tror, han skal dø. Hannahs mand er forelsket i hendes søster Barbara. Hannah's to andre søstre vil låne penge af hende til deres nye catering-firma. Hannah skal sørge for Thanksgiving-middag til hele familien. Hannah ville have det en hel del lettere uden søstre samt tidligere og nuværende mænd.
Marion har lært at lukke af for sine følelser. Hun lejer en lejlighed for at arbejde på sin nye bog, men af en eller anden grund kan hun høre alt, hvad der bliver sagt i lejligheden ved siden af, hvor en psykiater har kontor. Da hun hører en ung kvinde fortælle, at hun har sværere og sværere ved at tackle livet, begynder Marion at reflektere over sit eget liv. Efter en række begivenheder får hun øjnene op for, hvordan hendes følelseskolde facade påvirker folk omkring hende.
When Sarah, a New York actress, calls Joe, a London playwright they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Antlantic phone calls. And both Sarah and Joe have very special conditions they both have to fight to overcome their separation.
Bill Lee arbejder med at udrydde skadedyr og kryb. Om dagen bruger han insektgiften til at dræbe kakerlakker, og om aftenen indtager han samme gift sammen med sin kone for at blive høj. I en vanvittig ulykke kommer Lee til at skyde sin kone i hovedet, hvilket får ham til at dykke lige ned i en verden af stoffer, paranoia og hallucinationer. Konstant forfulgt af spioner, skrivemaskiner og kæmpeinsekter jager Lee rundt efter svaret på sin egen gåde.
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.
A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over over a hundred short stories and 44 novels of mind-bending sci-fi, exploring themes of authority, drugs, theology, mental illness and much more.
Brian Hartley has finally found the girl of his dreams in Linda. Unfortunately, he can't convince her or himself that it's really true. When she catches him with another woman, she finally decides she's had enough and vows to never see him again. Frenzied from the loss, Brian breaks into her house to try to talk her into seeing him again, but Linda and her roommates Kim and Sharon instead bind him to the bed.
Unable or unwilling to conform to the rigid atmosphere of Washington and Lee College as a freshman, Ed bailed out after a brief stint there to attend—and graduate from—Miami of Ohio. After graduate work at UK, he left for the Left Coast, and it suited him just fine. The first stop was a writing instructorship at Oregon State, then enrollment into the Stanford Writing Program, a move shared by Jim, Wendell, and Gurney. There he cultivated, among other things, relationships with Larry McMurtry, Robert Stone, and—most importantly—Ken Kesey. Ed didn’t just experience the 1960s; he wallowed in them. Also, a bonus interview from 1996 program, Signature Live.
Ricardo Azolar is looking for the right words, the exact phrases that will give him literary glory. The days are sterile and lacking in those brilliant ideas that should allow him to express through narrative, the fertile flow arising from the imagination. Until he meets Lisbeth, venus and intoxicating muse who nevertheless compels him to write irrelevant and devoid of any imagination literary texts.