About two years ago British writer Andy Riley, whose credits include “Veep,” “Gnomeo & Juliet” and “Slacker Cats,” put together a list of terminology used by comedy writers that isn’t found in screenwriting books. He’s now updated the glossary with a handful of new words that help describe a few tricky aspects of the screenwriting process.
“Most are terms that have grown out of writers’ rooms, email exchanges, and talking shop in the pub,” he explained on his website. “Some are in wide use: others used by literally only a couple of people. I’ve just been told a lot more of them so the list has grown, a lot. Please enjoy.”
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“Most are terms that have grown out of writers’ rooms, email exchanges, and talking shop in the pub,” he explained on his website. “Some are in wide use: others used by literally only a couple of people. I’ve just been told a lot more of them so the list has grown, a lot. Please enjoy.”
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In the article, “How To Talk Comedy Writer – Updated!,” writers can learn what “Landgon” means — “A joke construction named after the writer John Langdon,...
- 11/1/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
From Beyonce's $50 million Pepsi deal to Taylor Swift's dances with Walgreens, it's clear that American pop music has cozied up quite comfortably with big business. From rap to country to gospel, music fans can rest assured that if it's popular, it's probably already earned a corporate sponsorship.
But what happens when a genre bubbles quietly for decades before exploding in popularity over a few years? Electronic dance music has existed in American nightclubs for 30 years now, but its expansion into the popular consciousness came so swiftly that large-scale business interests -- from record labels to event planners and merchandisers -- have been caught playing catch-up.
Still, that investors have their eyes set on monetizing the dance music scene is hardly news at this point. Since its June 2012 coming out party in the New York Times, Robert F.X. Sillerman's rapidly growing Edm empire has led the charge: With a series of banner acquisitions (DayGlow,...
But what happens when a genre bubbles quietly for decades before exploding in popularity over a few years? Electronic dance music has existed in American nightclubs for 30 years now, but its expansion into the popular consciousness came so swiftly that large-scale business interests -- from record labels to event planners and merchandisers -- have been caught playing catch-up.
Still, that investors have their eyes set on monetizing the dance music scene is hardly news at this point. Since its June 2012 coming out party in the New York Times, Robert F.X. Sillerman's rapidly growing Edm empire has led the charge: With a series of banner acquisitions (DayGlow,...
- 4/8/2013
- by Kia Makarechi
- Huffington Post
The t-shirt deal of the day over at Ript Apparel is called "ohmg!" by artists John Langdon & Roni Lagin.
The tee went on sale at Ript today, Tuesday, February 1, 2011, at midnight Cst, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.
John Langdon happens to be the artist who created the awesome ambigrams that appeared in Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons (which you can also see in the film adaptation) [...]...
The tee went on sale at Ript today, Tuesday, February 1, 2011, at midnight Cst, and will continue for 24 hours from then, and once it’s over, it will not be sold on the site anymore.
John Langdon happens to be the artist who created the awesome ambigrams that appeared in Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons (which you can also see in the film adaptation) [...]...
- 2/1/2011
- by Empress Eve
- Geeks of Doom
Just as he blended fact and fiction in his earlier, controversial book-to-film, The Da Vinci Code, so does novelist Dan Brown concoct a sometimes confusing plot for Angels and Demons, the past weekend's No. 1 movie. This time, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is in Rome to prevent the Vatican from being destroyed by an "antimatter" bomb and rescue four kidnapped Cardinals from the evil clutches of an ancient, underground society known as the Illuminati. The Illumi-whaaaa, you ask? Ex-actly. And here are some other questions - and answers - that may arise after seeing the movie: Who are the Illuminati?...
- 5/18/2009
- by Natasha Stoynoff
- PEOPLE.com
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