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141 | Television Writing Foundations w/ Javier Grillo-Marxauch

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Thematic of Friendship

ER was based on a actually a feature that Michael Creighton had written that then John Wells you know sort of worked into that pilot. I remember the present of the studio yelling at me listen to what your actors are telling you they can't say the dialogue. We hired a memorization coach so all of the actors had a coach to run lines with them because my theory was because we had some issues with some acting on the show and  we're having issues with the acting, he says.

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