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Bryan Burrough
American
Author
Born:
Aug 13
,
1961
Book
Every
Internet
People
Rights
You
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Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
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Zig Ziglar
I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
Bryan Burrough
People
Pride
Internet
Too Many People
Rudeness
Too
Rule
Seem
Take
Insults
Accustomed
Where
Forum
Many
All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
Bryan Burrough
Book
Thought
Face
First
Single
Big
Too
Baby
Back
Project
Way
Nelson
John
Bought
Instead
Idea
Major
Stumbled
Tracking
Amazement
Subject
Friend
Bank
Help
American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.
Bryan Burrough
Field
Enough
Those
Ourselves
Writers
Support
Least
Lot
American
Us
Fortunate
Who
Large
American Writers
Lucky
'Bonnie and Clyde,' while one of the best movies ever made, was far more interested in portraying Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as romantic anti-establishment Robin Hoods than what they really were: white-trash spree killers.
Bryan Burrough
Best
Made
More
Parker
Robin
Were
Than
Romantic
While
Interested
Movies
Far
Really
Ever
Portraying
From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
Bryan Burrough
Time
Rights
Book
Every
Vanity
Vanity Fair
About
Writer
Fair
Sell
Article
From Time To Time
Just
Hollywood
Chance
I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
Bryan Burrough
Buy
Rights
Made
Every
Must
Know
Gets
Movie
Hollywood
Figures
Actually
There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.
Bryan Burrough
You
Book
Slight
Tension
Always
Nonfiction
Intact
His
Sell
Author
Accurately
Wants
Story
Hollywood
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