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Did you know that Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s perfect screenplay for ‘The Apartment’ was written on the fly while the film was being shot? Can this actually be true? According to Shirley MacLaine, in the above very interesting doc about the making of the film, Wilder started filming with

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April 7, 2026 No Comments

AND THE BEST SCREENPLAY AWARD GOES TO THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE

Continuing our history of ‘Annie Hall’ at the 1978 Oscars, here is Paddy Chayefsky announcing the best original screenplay award which of course goes to the magisterially absent Woody Allen and his partner Mashall Brickman, who is there and accepts on Woody’s behalf. (By the way, one of the nominees

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November 9, 2023 1 Comment

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