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Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw in Love Story Erich Segal, whose screenplay and novel Love Story became worldwide hits, has died. Segal, who had been suffering from Parkinson's disease for more than two decades, suffered a fatal heart attack at his London home on Sunday, Jan. 17. He was 72. The New York City-born rabbi's son and Yale professor achieved fame in 1970. He had his [...]

Anthony Slide on Reynold Humphries' Hollywood's Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History: "The entire history of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) is well recorded. The author explains the origins of the Blacklist, dating the story from Roosevelt's election in 1932 and the rise of what he describes as the Liberal-Communist Alliance. The Alliance quickly ended with the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Pact, but the damage [...]

2008 USC Scripter Awards 2008 Scripter Award winners: Feb. 18, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner)   No Country for Old Men, which stars Josh Brolin (above), Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones, has won nearly every U.S. critics' awards this season. The Coens' adapted screenplay is also in the running for this year's Writers Guild award. Literary Achievement Award recipient Steven Zaillian happens to be [...]