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  • Burn, Hollywood, burn! Four noirs reveal the horrors of the screenwriting trade

    Burn, Hollywood, burn! Four noirs reveal the horrors of the screenwriting trade

    Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, ‘In a Lonely Place’ (1950). By Paul Parcellin You’ve probably heard that screenwriters get little respect in the big town, and by many accounts that’s true. They labor in isolation, punching out fresh ideas, pouring their deepest emotions onto their pages only to have their hearts broken.  Their masterpieces are rewritten…