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AI’s Black Box Is Getting a Window. Somebody Still Has to Look Through It“It Stars C. Thomas Howell. No.” Why AI Gets Stuck in a LoopShould You Query or Self-Publish Your Memoir If You’re Not Famous?Judge the Writing, Not the Tool: What the AI Pile-Ons Get WrongThiago Ferreira: Thinkers, Not DoersYana Semova: Let AI Do the AdminLisa Hamilton-Smith: Unstoppable, AI AssistedSuperman Day: The $130 Contract Behind the CapeRaymond Chandler Day: The Novelist Who Started at FiftyJohn Steinbeck Day: The Reporter Who Wrote the NovelInternational Translation Day: The Invisible AuthorsMaya Angelou Day: The Dare That Became a MemoirNational Podcast Day: The Interview Is the Raw MaterialKurt Vonnegut Day: The Book That Took Twenty YearsTell a Fairy Tale Day: The Stories Everybody EditedHarry Potter’s Birthday: The Book Twelve Publishers MissedHarper Lee Day: The Draft Her Editor Saw ThroughGene Roddenberry Day: The Pilot Who Pitched the StarsRoald Dahl Day: Six Pencils and a Grudge Against Grown-UpsInternational Literacy Day: The Readers Books LoseJack Kerouac Day: The Scroll and the Last AddressElmore Leonard Day: Leave Out the Part Readers SkipEncourage a Young Writer Day: The Adult Who Read the PagesBack to the Future Day: The Script Where Everything Pays OffNational Library Lovers Month: The Building a Town Pays ForAlice’s Day: The Story Told on a Rowing BoatRobert E. Howard Day: The Texan Who Built ConanStephen King Day: The Daily Two ThousandEmily Dickinson Day: The Poems in the DrawerIan Fleming Day: Two Thousand Words a MorningFyodor Dostoevsky Day: The Novels Written Against the ClockZora Neale Hurston Day: The Ear She TrainedF. Scott Fitzgerald Day: The Masterpiece That FloppedElmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, and Which Ones I BreakShould Your Novel Have a Prologue? When a Cold Open Earns Its Place“People Who Use AI Deserve to Be Castrated”: When the Sentence Outruns the CrimeHow Famous Memoirs Were Really Written: What the Collaborators DidThe Bell JarOpen: An AutobiographyBeneath a Scarlet SkyFlorida RoadkillCampus BattlefieldLifeThe Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One ReadsThe Sage of SagittariusDid I Ever Tell You This?: A MemoirPa’anAmerican SoldierIt Doesn’t Take a HeroMake Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the World

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Actor: Albert Finney

Albert Finney was nominated five times and never won, declining to attend when nominated. Tom Jones made him a star, and Erin Brockovich and Big Fish gave him strong late work. He turned down the role of Lawrence of Arabia after a screen test, which he said would have committed him to a studio contract he did not want.

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Erin Brockovich (2000) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Soderbergh made a genuinely good film about a paralegal assembling six hundred plaintiffs against a utility company, and Julia Roberts won Best Actress over Ellen Burstyn in Requiem…

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Miller’s Crossing (1990)

Coens' 1990 Prohibition-era gangster film. Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan.