>>>>>>>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/08/obama-mosque-jobs-economy.html
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>>>>>>Neither party runs congress. It's open battle every day.
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>>>>>Do you have even an inkling of reality? :o)
>>>>>http://uspolitics.about.com/od/usgovernment/l/bl_party_division_2.htm
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>>>>When you and Charles are both pummeling me it's maybe time to take a break.
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>>>Pummeling? :o) I think you maybe take things too seriously :o) It wasn't meant as a "pummel." :o) I guess the tone gets mixed or lost in online communications....
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>>That is very true. A few years ago I was thinking of writing a screenplay, until a produced author talked me out of it. His name was John Hill and he had some credits to his name, including "Quigley Down Under", a polish of a "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and an Emmy for "L.A. Law." He said you are dead in this business if you're over 35 with no credits.
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>Write it anyway :o) Seriously. I know a 55 year old who just sold a screenplay and it is her first! It took her 8 years to sell it because she she finally agreed to give up control on the film (it was her first screenplay and it was her "baby") She couldn't write it and then let it go for the $.

Great for her but that is an anomaly. There are not a lot of scripts sold by 55 year olds who don't have a track record. I am also curious why any screenwriter would expect to have control of the film. Maybe if you're Steven Spielberg or Clint Eastwood, but not the average screenwriter. There is an old Hollywood line about the starlet so dumb she slept with the screenwriter.