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A series of short clips from the set of INCEPTION on locations as noted.

On location in Los Angeles ~ Making it rain

On location in Los Angeles ~ Car chase

On location Los Angeles ~ Crazy train

On location in Paris ~ Cafe explosion

On location in Los Angeles at LAX

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A Gradute of the University of Toronto, Bachelor of Arts degree.  Paula Griffith has over 20 years of experience singing in Classical, Jazz, Gospel, R&B, Adult Contemporary, Blues and Pop.

She has performed in the U.S., West Indies and in Canada at Roy Thompson Hall, CNE, Massy Hall, The Hummingbird Centre, Liberty Grand and Metro Convention Centre. Most memorable performances singing for Quincy Jones, Elton John and the Prime Minister of Canda. Performed with Speech from the Grammy award winning group ‘Arrested Development’, recorded with Juno winner Liberty Silver and worked with Grammy nominated recording artist Jill Scott.

For more information and to contact Paula Griffith, aka Miss G., please visit her website below at:

PG Productions Vocal Studio

Thanks, Miss G!

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Send us your 8×10′s (head shots only) and your resume, if you have one, and we’ll put them up on the front page under the ‘Head Shots’ category. Once there, they’ll be broken down into male or female, then *child or adult. Remember: you never know who’ll be stopping by to check out the site and the talent!

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Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan and Leonardo Dicaprio talk about the making of Inception from the set.

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Christopher Nolan is hoping so. With an estimated $200m for this latest project, Inception is set to be released on July the 16th, 2010. A lot of people are freaking out over the $200m figure when it’s pretty much right in line with everything else. Here’s a list of some recent and not so recent pictures compiled by www.the-numbers.com/movies.

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This list is in no particular order for all the screenwriters here are extraordinary in their own right. As you read through each of their bio’s made up by Variety, you’ll discover what it took each writer to do to get the ball rolling in their direction. After reading about these ten screenwriters, you should definitely feel that “if they’re doing it, I can do it” spirit. 120 great pages and belief in yourself is all you need. If nothing else, the following ten screenwriter’s are very inspiring.

Geoffrey Fletcher: “I thought that writing was not only a good way into the industry, but probably a good way to stay there.”

Emma Forrest: She wrote “Liars (A-E)” this spring in just three days following the breakup of her yearlong relationship with actor Colin Farrell. A couple of weeks later, the script was sold to Scott Rudin and Miramax.

David Leslie Johnson: David Leslie Johnson decided on a more old-fashioned path: He apprenticed with a master, then diligently developed his craft until the boss felt it was time to help him transition.

Ian Helfer and Jay Reiss: Reiss says, “Sometimes I would do a draft, sometimes he would. I hear of teams writing every line of dialogue together, one person over the other’s shoulder, but this wasn’t that. We were facing each other, blipping the information back and forth, discussing it, trying to work it out. While it took longer than writing something myself, you end up with more of a finished product, even by the end of the first draft.”

Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins: “Sarah and Emily create funny, smart, unself-consciously strong female characters,” says Portman. “When I read ‘Book Smart,’ it was as though the script we always talk about wanting to find for our company suddenly materialized.”

Phil Johnston: Phil Johnston worked for nine years as a regional TV news and weatherman in the northern Midwest. “I didn’t know a fucking thing about the weather,” he admits.

Mindy Kaling: “It comes from this impatience that I just wrote this and now I want to see it on its feet,” she says.

Liz Meriwether: “It kind of went like: I was working as a receptionist at a real estate investment management company, and then a week later I was in a golf cart, hiring a production designer,” she says, grinning through her geek-chic glasses and disheveled tawny blond hair. “I think I’m still recovering.”

Michelle Morgan: “I am still in the substitute teacher pool,” she admits. “I can’t take myself off that list yet. Hopefully, it’ll end up working out,” she says of her screenwriting career. “But you can’t take it all so seriously.”

Alan Yang: “I like the social nature of the TV writers’ room, but I think I’m more attuned to feature screenwriting because I can go to a park and sit on a bench and write for a few hours,” Yang says.

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Acclaimed writer-director Paul Haggis has been a fixture of television and film for over 25 years. In this wide-ranging interview, the Oscar®-winning co-screenwriter, director, and producer of Crash (Best Picture 2005) discusses a three-decade career that led from writing for sitcoms like Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life to his breakthrough screenplay for Oscar®-winning director Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby (Best Picture 2004). Haggis’s matter-of-fact stories of navigating the entertainment industry are an indelible primer for how to manage the screenwriting life, make a successful transition from TV to film, develop a strong story and characters, pitch an idea, and surmount Hollywood’s more frustrating obstacles.

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From CBS Archives. Broadcast April 17th, 1964.

By age nine, Buster Keaton already knew he should never smile. “I’d simply learned that I was the type of comic that if I laughed at what I did, the audience didn’t,” Mr. Keaton tells Telescope‘s Fletcher Markle, reflecting on his early years in vaudeville. From his christening as Buster by Harry Houdini to tips on how to throw a pie and keep his saucer-brimmed pork-pie hat in shape, this profile captures the man behind the great stone-face and evokes the long-gone early years of cinematic comedy.

After a series of personal challenges in the early 1930s, including divorce, bankruptcy and a severe bout of alcoholism which he refers to in this clip, Keaton made the transition to “talkies” and television. In the 1950s and early 1960s, he found a new generation of fans and regained some of the profile he’d had in the silent film era. The early 1960s also marked a renaissance for silent film, and his early works gained critical recognition at film festivals around the world.

Remember, these were MOTION PICTURES then. Mr. Keaton speaks about this and how TALKING PICTURES sent him into a depression. There is volume, the opening of the interview doesn’t start until 0:44. Thanks and enjoy.

In conclusion, by watching the video, one would think the title should be, “Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em!” Sadly enough, Buster Keaton died of lung cancer on Feb., 22, 1966, just two years after this interview aired. He was 70 years old and he is missed very much. Thanks for the memories, Buster.

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Sid Ganis, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, announced The Oscars are going old school as far as the Best Picture category is concerned. There will now be 10 pictures looking to grab Oscar around the mid section instead of 5 on March 7th, 2010.

“After more than six decades, the Academy is returning to some of its earlier roots, when a wider field competed for the top award of the year,” said Ganis. “The final outcome, of course, will be the same – one Best Picture winner – but the race to the finish line will feature 10, not just five, great movies from 2009.”

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