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World Premier of my Animation “Creepwalking”
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Where is the Line for Plagiarism?
I ask this question because plagiarism is in the news lately. Harvard’s President recently lost her job after being accused of plagiarism in her academic work. I’ve been thinking more about plagiarism as it relates to AI tools like ChatGPT that have been trained on existing human writing. Several authors like Sarah Silverman have sued…
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Writing Tip of the Prose (Ha Ha) # 2459 – Google Ngram Viewer
I recently posted a couple of paragraphs of an in-progress short story for online critique and received some interesting comments back. One reader found it weird that my early thirties POV character used the word “philandering” and the phrase “grassy knoll.” I’m still not sure what to make of that. One thought: is “grassy knoll”…
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Black Mass: Film Noir Classic “Storm Warning” and the Grim Fate of Steve Cochran
Years ago, I developed an interest in film noir movies and viewed many classics of the genre like “Double Indemnity”, “Touch of Evil”, “Notorious” and even neo-noirs like “Chinatown” and Brian De Palma’s “Sisters” (fun and kooky with gorgeous Margo Kidder!) More recently, I’ve been seeking some lesser known noirs and so, a few months…