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How Much AI Is Too Much in Writing? 83 Writers Drew the Same LinePost an AI Image and Unfriend MeShe Asked How to Publish Her Bedtime Story. They Called Her a Thief.The AI Hype Cycle: Why the Crash Is Coming, and Who’s Causing ItSix Claude Prompts That Get You Unstuck, and Why the Order MattersDogpiled Over AI Art at the Renaissance FaireClaude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for WritersTrump’s AI Force Is a Fire Department With No Fire CodeMonthly or Milestone: How Ghostwriting Gets BilledThe Hugging Face AI Agent Attack: An Operations ReadingWhat It Costs to Fix an AI-Written ManuscriptWhen Your Memoir Should Be a NovelWhat Belongs on a Copyright PageThe Clients Who Pay and VanishWhat an AI Detector Score on Your Manuscript Is WorthThe Quotation Marks That Get Authors SuedThe One-Hour Call Before I Quote Your BookWhen Your Own Memoir Sounds Like BraggingThe Work You Would Never Have StartedWhen a Client Thinks the Ghostwriter Used AIBehind the Book: The Mysterious Island, Neb’s SideHow to Organize Decades of Memories Into a MemoirWhy Rotten Tomatoes Sucks: The Score Does Not Mean What You ThinkWhy Amazon KDP Sucks: They Terminated My Account OvernightIngramSpark: How I Publish Now and WhyWhy Fiverr Sucks for Ghostwriting: The Buyer’s SideWhy eBay Sucks Now: A Seller’s Numbers and a Buyer’s WarningThe Ghost Story TraditionThe Gothic TraditionThe Christmas Ghost Story TraditionBooks to Give a WriterResurrection as a Narrative StructureThe Beach Read ArgumentWhy It’s a Wonderful Life Failed on ReleaseWhat to Read in SpringWhat to Read in SummerWhat to Read in OctoberHow Warner Bros. Dismantled a $17 Billion Cartoon EmpireThe Imaginary Scarcity TrapThe Graph That Goes Vertical Is Usually Somebody Else’sSubstack Is Not Collapsing. The Promise Was.The Disasters That Happen to Ordinary PeopleToba: The Winter That Almost Ended UsJay Stifflemire: Nothing Ever Gets Written DownGeorgie-Ann Getton: I Forgot I Had Free WillAI Detection Cannot Be Evidence, and Publishing Is Using It That WayAI Consciousness Left Philosophy and Entered the LaboratoryThe Office Block Where the Bedrooms AreBlack Tuesday: The Web Ring War Nobody Outside It NoticedThe Web Got Fenced: What AI Search Costs Small Sites

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Actor: William Holden

William Holden won Best Actor for Stalag 17, playing a prisoner of war whose profiteering makes him the least likeable man in the camp and eventually the most useful.

Sunset Boulevard is the better film, narrating from the swimming pool he is floating dead in, and Wilder used him again for Sabrina.

The Wild Bunch and Network are the late performances, and Network earned a nomination for a man watching his profession become something he does not recognize.

He drank heavily for decades and died alone in 1981 after a fall, which was not discovered for several days.

Four men in Western clothing walk side by side down a dusty road toward an uncertain fate. TITLE: The Wild Bunch Final Walk

The Wild Bunch (1969) Review

The Wild Bunch (1969) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peckinpah cut the violence at multiple film speeds and assembled it at a rate nobody had attempted, and the result changed how every action film since has…

Stalag 17 (1953) film poster

Stalag 17 (1953)

Billy Wilder's 1953 WWII POW camp drama. William Holden won Best Actor.

Network (1976) film poster

Beatrice Straight

Network (1976)

Sidney Lumet's 1976 TV news satire. Network is Sidney Lumet's 1976 American satire about commercial television.

Sunset Boulevard (1950) film poster

Erich von Stroheim

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Wilder's 1950 Hollywood gothic. Sunset Boulevard is the Billy Wilder film noir that became Hollywood's most lacerating film about itself.

The Horse Soldiers (1959) film poster

Constance Towers

The Horse Soldiers (1959)

The Horse Soldiers is John Ford's only Civil War film and one of his weaker collaborations with John Wayne. Wayne plays Colonel John Marlowe, a Union.

The Towering Inferno (1974) film poster

The Towering Inferno (1974)

The Towering Inferno is the best disaster film of the 1970s and the model against which every subsequent disaster film has been measured. John Guillermin directed the dramatic scenes and Irwin Allen directed the action sequences.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) film poster

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Review

David Lean's POW masterpiece. Alec Guinness's career-defining performance as Colonel Nicholson.

The Devil's Brigade (1968) film poster

The Devil’s Brigade (1968) Review

William Holden, Cliff Robertson, and the true story of the joint US-Canadian commando unit that earned a German nickname. The film tells the true story of the First Special Service Force, a joint American-Canadian commando unit assembled in 1942 to…