"conflict between traditions and innovation. There is an established civilization, complete with bureaucrats, taxes imposed and collected, and permits; there are people who resent the establishment; there is a need for both groups to find common ground in order to save their collective civilization. Terry Pratchett's novel ""Eric"" mentions that the president of the demons has carpets inhabited by tribes of pygmies, possibly suggesting a link between ""The Carpet People"" and ""Discworld"" universes, or possibly merely one of Pratchett's in-jokes. The Carpet People The Carpet People is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. First published in 1971, it"
"Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy (born Charles McCarthy; July 20, 1933) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He has written ten novels, spanning the Southern Gothic, Western, and post-apocalyptic genres. McCarthy's fifth novel, ""Blood Meridian"" (1985), was on ""Time"" magazine's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language books published since 1923. For ""All the Pretty Horses"" (1992), he won both the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. His 2005 novel ""No Country for Old Men"" was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. ""All the Pretty Horses"","
"I plan to begin a process of making one personal movie after another and if something leads me back to look at that, which I'm sure it might, I'll see what makes sense to me."" Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing ""The Rain People"" (1969), he co-wrote the 1970 film ""Patton"", earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with co-writer Edmund H. North. His directorial prominence was cemented with"
"Francis Ford Coppola Francis Ford Coppola (; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer. He was a central figure in the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking. After directing ""The Rain People"" (1969), he co-wrote the 1970 film ""Patton"", earning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay along with co-writer Edmund H. North. His directorial prominence was cemented with the release in 1972 of ""The Godfather"", a film which revolutionized movie-making in the gangster genre, earning praise from both critics and the public before winning three Academy Awards—including his second Oscar (Best Adapted Screenplay,"
"term assistant Rob Wilkins stated that Terry was working on this documentary before he died, and according to the BBC, finishing it would ""show the author was still having the last laugh"". Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his ""Discworld"" series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, ""The Carpet People"", was published in 1971. The first ""Discworld"" novel, ""The Colour of Magic"", was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year."
"Robert Bolt Robert Oxton Bolt, CBE (15 August 1924 – 21 February 1995) was an English playwright and a two-time Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for ""Lawrence of Arabia"", ""Doctor Zhivago"" and ""A Man for All Seasons"", the latter two of which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was born in Sale, Cheshire, to Methodist parents; his father owned a small furniture shop. At Manchester Grammar School his affinity for Sir Thomas More first developed. After leaving school aged sixteen, he worked in an insurance office, which he disliked; after studying in the evening"
"Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his ""Discworld"" series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first novel, ""The Carpet People"", was published in 1971. The first ""Discworld"" novel, ""The Colour of Magic"", was published in 1983, after which Pratchett wrote an average of two books a year. His 2011 ""Discworld"" novel ""Snuff"" became the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-readership novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days. The final ""Discworld"" novel, ""The Shepherd's Crown"","
"John Milius John Frederick Milius (; born April 11, 1944) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. He was a writer for the first two ""Dirty Harry"" films, received an Academy Award nomination as screenwriter of ""Apocalypse Now,"" and wrote and directed ""The Wind and the Lion"", ""Conan the Barbarian"" and ""Red Dawn."" He later served as the co-creator of the Primetime Emmy Award-winning HBO series ""Rome"". Milius was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the youngest of three children to Elizabeth (née Roe) and William Styx Milius, who was a shoe manufacturer. When Milius was seven his"
"Horton Foote Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplays for the 1962 film ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" and the 1983 film ""Tender Mercies"", and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play ""The Young Man From Atlanta"" and two Academy Awards, one for an original screenplay, ""Tender Mercies"", and one for adapted screenplay, ""To Kill a Mockingbird"". In 1995, Foote was the inaugural recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter"
"and lymphatic diseases (LD), which affect an estimated 10 million people in the United States and over 100 million people worldwide. Guttenberg married model Denise Bixler on September 30, 1988. They separated in June 1991 and were divorced in 1992. He has lived with WCBS-TV reporter Emily Smith since 2014; the couple announced their engagement in December 2016. Steve Guttenberg Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24, 1958) is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director. He starred in 1984's ""Police Academy"", and went on to perform in lead roles in Hollywood films of the 1980s, including ""Cocoon"", ""Three Men"
"Arthur Hopcraft Arthur Hopcraft (30 November 1932 – 22 November 2004) was an English scriptwriter, well known for his TV plays such as ""The Nearly Man"", and for his small-screen adaptations such as ""Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy""; ""Hard Times"", ""Bleak House"", and ""Rebecca"". Before taking up writing for TV, he was a sports journalist for ""The Guardian"" and ""The Observer"", writing ""The Football Man: People and Passions in Soccer"". He also had four other books published, including an autobiographical account of his childhood, and wrote the screenplay for the film ""Hostage"". Hopcraft won the BAFTA writer's award in 1985. Hopcraft"
"The Carpet Makers The Carpet Makers (German original title: ""Die Haarteppichknüpfer"") is a science fiction novel by German writer Andreas Eschbach, originally published in 1995. The first English language edition, released in 2005 by Tor Books, features a foreword by Orson Scott Card. The book is set on a planet whose sole industry is weaving elaborate rugs. The carpets are made of human hair and require a lifetime of work to complete. The book is a series of inter-related stories that give increasingly more detail on the nature and purpose of the rugs and why the universe has tens of"
"Tom's Cabin"" of the chorus girl."" Bradford Ropes Bradford Ropes (January 1, 1905 – November 21, 1966) was a prolific novelist and screenwriter whose work includes the novel ""42nd Street"" that was adapted for the 1933 film of the same name and then a Tony Award winning musical, also of the same name. His next novel, ""Stage Mother"" in 1933 was also adapted to film. He also wrote many Western stories as well as screenplays for Abbott and Costello. Ropes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He died in the Wollaston section of Quincy, Massachusetts. Ropes wrote in 1932 that America"
"Richard Carpenter (screenwriter) Richard Michael ""Kip"" Carpenter (14 August 1929 – 26 February 2012) was an English screenwriter, author, and actor who created a number of British television series, including ""Robin of Sherwood"" and ""Catweazle"". Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Carpenter attended the Old Vic Theatre School before starting an acting career by working in repertory theatre. Carpenter appeared in occasional films, but was mostly active on British TV in the 1960s as a character actor, on one occasion opposite Tony Hancock in one of his last shows for the BBC, commonly known as ""The Bowmans"". Other TV shows in"
"on September 7, 1986. They have two daughters, Joanna and Miranda. Walter Hill Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is widely known for his action films and revival of the Western genre. He has directed such films as ""The Warriors"", ""Hard Times"", ""The Driver"", ""Southern Comfort"", ""48 Hrs."" and its sequel ""Another 48 Hrs."", ""Red Heat"", ""Last Man Standing"", ""Undisputed"", and ""Bullet to the Head"", as well as writing the Steve McQueen crime drama ""The Getaway"". He has also directed several episodes of television series such as ""Tales from the Crypt"""
"Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote (; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958) and the true crime novel ""In Cold Blood"" (1966), which he labeled a ""nonfiction novel"". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from his work. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. He had discovered his calling as"
"is married and has two children. He lives in London much of the time. Shane Connaughton Shane Connaughton (born 4 April 1941 in Kingscourt County Cavan ) is an Irish writer and actor, probably best known as co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for ""My Left Foot"". He also co-wrote the screenplays for the Academy Award-winning 1980 short film ""The Dollar Bottom"" and 1992 film ""The Playboys"", as well as other screenplays and plays. He won the Hennessy Award in 1985. Connaughton is the author of the books ""A Border Station"" (1989), ""The Run of the Country"" (1991), and ""Big"
"Walter Hill Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is widely known for his action films and revival of the Western genre. He has directed such films as ""The Warriors"", ""Hard Times"", ""The Driver"", ""Southern Comfort"", ""48 Hrs."" and its sequel ""Another 48 Hrs."", ""Red Heat"", ""Last Man Standing"", ""Undisputed"", and ""Bullet to the Head"", as well as writing the Steve McQueen crime drama ""The Getaway"". He has also directed several episodes of television series such as ""Tales from the Crypt"" and ""Deadwood"" and produced the ""Alien"" films. Hill said in an"
"Dashiell Hammett Samuel Dashiell Hammett (; May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He was also a screenwriter and political activist. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade (""The Maltese Falcon""), Nick and Nora Charles (""The Thin Man""), and the Continental Op (""Red Harvest"" and ""The Dain Curse""). Hammett ""is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time"". In his obituary in ""The New York Times"", he was described as ""the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."" ""Time"" magazine included"
"at the AFI, serving from 1989 to 1994. Abrahams was married to his college sweetheart Dorothy Abrahams; they had two children. He was pre-deceased by his son. Among his survivors is his daughter, Marjie Abrahams of RSA Films. Mort Abrahams Mort Abrahams (26 March 1916 – 28 May 2009) was an American film and television producer. Among his credits are nine episodes of spy series ""The Man from U.N.C.L.E."" and, as associate producer, the films ""Doctor Dolittle"", ""Planet of the Apes"", ""Goodbye, Mr. Chips"" and ""Beneath the Planet of the Apes"", co-writing the story of the latter. Abrahams was the"
"Last House on the Left"", ""The Hills Have Eyes"", ""Swamp Thing"", ""The Serpent and the Rainbow"", ""The People Under the Stairs"", ""Vampire in Brooklyn"", and ""Red Eye"". Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Caroline (née Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. He was raised in a strict Baptist family. Craven earned an undergraduate degree in English and psychology from Wheaton College in Illinois and a master's degree in philosophy and writing from Johns Hopkins University. Craven briefly taught English at Westminster College and was a humanities professor at Clarkson College of Technology (later named Clarkson University) in Potsdam,"
"and four grandchildren. He died in Austin from cancer at the age of 68 on June 4, 1998. Clancy Carlile Clancy Carlile (January 18, 1930 – June 4, 1998) was an American novelist and screenwriter of Cherokee descent. He is perhaps best known for his 1980 novel ""Honkytonk Man"", made into a film by Clint Eastwood. Carlile was born in the Choctaw Nation's tribal jurisdictional area in Oklahoma, and his father was Cherokee. He had an erratic childhood, and moved to Texas at a young age. Carlile was a high school drop-out. He worked as a cotton picker until his"
"Neil LaBute Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best-known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, ""In the Company of Men"" (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. He wrote and directed the films ""Your Friends & Neighbors"" (1998), ""Possession"" (2002) (based on the A.S. Byatt novel), ""The Shape of Things"" (2003) (based on his play of the same name), ""The Wicker Man"" (2006), ""Some Velvet Morning"" (2013), and ""Dirty Weekend"""
"James Poe James Poe (October 4, 1921 – January 24, 1980) was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies ""Around the World in 80 Days"" for which he jointly won an Academy Award in 1956, ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"", ""Summer and Smoke"", ""Lilies of the Field"", and ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"". He also worked as a writer on the radio shows ""Escape"" and ""Suspense"", writing the scripts for some of their best episodes, most notably ""Three Skeleton Key"", ""Blood Bath"" and ""The Present Tense"", all of which starred"
"Julian Mitchell Charles Julian Humphrey Mitchell FRSL (born 1 May 1935) is an English playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist. He is best known as the writer of the play and film ""Another Country"", and as a screenwriter for TV, producing many original plays and series episodes, including at least ten for ""Inspector Morse"". Mitchell was born in Epping, Essex, and educated at Winchester College, where he won the English Verse and Duncan Reading Prizes. He did his national service in submarines 1953-55 as a Sub Lt RNVR. He then went to Wadham College, Oxford and received a BA with first"
"writing mainly for anthology shows including ""Robert Montgomery Presents"", ""Climax!"", and ""Schlitz Playhouse of Stars"" amongst others. He also wrote articles for the journal ""Films in Review"". DeWitt Bodeen DeWitt Bodeen (July 25, 1908, Fresno, California — March 12, 1988, Los Angeles, California) was a film screenwriter and television writer best known for writing ""Cat People"" (1942). Born Homer DeWitt Bodeen, he began his career as an actor and playwright before entering the film business. In the late 1930s, he began working for RKO and worked his way up to a script writer. Other films include ""The Curse of the"
"Matthew Weiner Matthew Hoffman Weiner () (born June 29, 1965) is an American writer, producer, director, actor and author, best known as the creator of the television series ""Mad Men"" and ""The Romanoffs"". He is also noted for his work as a writer and executive producer on ""The Sopranos"" and for his work as a writer on ""Becker"". He wrote, directed and produced the comedy-drama film ""Are You Here"" in 2013, marking his filmmaking debut. He published his first novel ""Heather, the Totality"" in 2017. Weiner has won nine Primetime Emmy Awards, two for ""The Sopranos"" and seven for ""Mad"
"Charlton Heston Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in almost 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played Moses in the epic film ""The Ten Commandments"" (1956), for which he received his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He also starred in ""Touch of Evil"" (1958) with Orson Welles, ""Ben-Hur"" (1959), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, ""El Cid"" (1961), ""Planet of the Apes"" (1968), ""The"
"Shane Connaughton Shane Connaughton (born 4 April 1941 in Kingscourt County Cavan ) is an Irish writer and actor, probably best known as co-writer of the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for ""My Left Foot"". He also co-wrote the screenplays for the Academy Award-winning 1980 short film ""The Dollar Bottom"" and 1992 film ""The Playboys"", as well as other screenplays and plays. He won the Hennessy Award in 1985. Connaughton is the author of the books ""A Border Station"" (1989), ""The Run of the Country"" (1991), and ""Big Parts"" (2009). He adapted ""The Run of the Country"" for the screen in 1995"
"Barry Morrow Barry Morrow (born June 12, 1948) is an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for ""Rain Man"". Morrow was born in Austin, Minnesota and studied at St. Olaf College. Several of Morrow's scripts are inspired by real people, especially people with disabilities and/or extraordinary talents. These include the savant played by Dustin Hoffman in the film ""Rain Man"", inspired by the real savant Kim Peek; and mentally disabled Bill Sackter, played by Mickey Rooney in the TV movie ""Bill"". Both works received writing Oscar, Emmy and other awards for Morrow and for"
"Steve Guttenberg Steven Robert Guttenberg (born August 24, 1958) is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director. He starred in 1984's ""Police Academy"", and went on to perform in lead roles in Hollywood films of the 1980s, including ""Cocoon"", ""Three Men and a Baby"", ""Three Men and a Little Lady"" and ""Short Circuit"". Guttenberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ann Iris (née Newman), a surgical assistant, and Jerome Stanley Guttenberg, an electrical engineer. He has two sisters. He had a Jewish upbringing in North Massapequa, New York, where he graduated from Plainedge High School in"
"Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign-language novel in 2001. Writing in ""Emerald City"", Cheryl Morgan called it ""a fine example of traditional sociological science fiction, if rather unusually structured."" The Carpet Makers The Carpet Makers (German original title: ""Die Haarteppichknüpfer"") is a science fiction novel by German writer Andreas Eschbach, originally published in 1995. The first English language edition, released in 2005 by Tor Books, features a foreword by Orson Scott Card. The book is set on a planet whose sole industry is weaving elaborate rugs. The carpets are made of human hair and require a lifetime of work to complete."
"a member of the Association of Retarded Citizens, the National Association of Social Workers, and the Autism Society of America. He is an avid golfer, and is known to play the majority of his golf rounds using an eight club bag of hickory stick (wooden shaft) golf clubs made pre-1940. Barry Morrow Barry Morrow (born June 12, 1948) is an American screenwriter and producer. He wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay for ""Rain Man"". Morrow was born in Austin, Minnesota and studied at St. Olaf College. Several of Morrow's scripts are inspired by real people, especially people with disabilities"