This Saturday and Sunday, the IFP is holding its annual "From Script to Screen Conference" with panels of film, television, and stage professionals giving their insights and thoughts about breaking in, getting the work made, and the business involved. Paul Schrader, writer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Last Temptation of Christ, will be speaking about his career (his most recent work was directing AutoFocus). Gothamist is looking forward to Tom Fontana, the creator behind the best cop show ever (Law & Order is the best cop-and-lawyer show ever), Homicide: Life on the Streets. Fontana will be speaking about his career as writer-producer of St. Elsewhere, Homicide, and Oz. Other panelists include Dylan Kidd (writer-director of Roger Dodger), Austin Chick (whose film XX/XY opens today), Marshall Brickman (co-writer of Annie Hall), Erin Cressida Wilson (writer of Secretary) and United Artists head Bingham Ray (UA released Bowling for Columbine).
Gothamist will try to ask Fontana questions about the Law & Order-Homicide cross-over story arc, as well as the fact that Richard Belzer continues to play Detective John Munch, a Homicide regular, on L&O: Special Victims Unit.
More Script conference information here.
[April 13, 2003]: Gothamist on Tom Fontana's talk
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Oh, I do so miss "Homicide". I hate that to get my Andre Brauger fill I now have to watch "The Hack", which stinks.
sorry for the cross-post, but I couldn't find a webmaster email address on the site.
a tiny suggestion :) could you have a small block of recent posts (listed by title)? the 'archives' list is great but there's no way to see what posts are inside each one. the 'features' block is nice. (just ignore this if you think I'm crazy)
i've thought about the recent posts block a lot. The problem is that Gothamist is so high-volume- even if I had the last 15 titles in the box, it would only be like the last two days on the site. And the last two days are shown on the main page anyway. The archives are crossindexed by date and by subject- but I hear what red is saying- do you think an additional archive page would be good? Something with a more indepth breakdown? For instance, on one column we could have the archive by categories with titles for each post in the category, and in a second column, we could have the archives by date. It could be cool. Incidentally, there is actually an archives page like this on gothamist.com- we just don't link to it: archives.php
While I think it's awesome that people want to know what's happening within the weekly archives, when something is posted by title, it still might not give any sense of what the post was...maybe we could get around that with also listing the feature catogory, but since I like weird titles, I'm afraid just listing the titles won't work as hard so something else...the other solution is I don't post as much.
I like the title + category idea. I would say a list of 15 to 20 should be fine, somewhere near the top on the right. Try it!
Okay, back to Jake's argument: 15-20 posts would, on average, represent only 2-3 days worth of posts...