The tough thing about many screenwriting books (an Amazon search lists a whopping 2342 of 'em) is that authors always seem to be trying to talk their readers out of actually writing a screenplay. Look to your left... look to your right... one of those people will not be here at the end of the... Zzzzzz.
Maybe the first success story from Chicago's legendary Second City comedy enterprise, Alan Arkin has been a fixture in American film ever since his break-out role in Norman Jewison's The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming.
Thanks to ceaseless reruns, it's likely that the majority of this country's population is most familiar with Patton Oswalt via his past sitcom regularity as Spence on The King of Queens.
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