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I recently watched ‘Oppenheimer’ – a movie about one man *obsessed* with physics. It’s a lot like ‘The Beautiful Mind’ and ‘Pi’ – the main character is consumed: he daydreams about periodic table over morning coffee, he sees particles in his sleep. It’s dramatic and sexy. That made me wonder: if they made a movie…
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You might have heard, ‘Don’t compare your day 1 to somebody’s day 100’. Even good pieces start looking like crap. Here is me literally comparing the first draft (above) to the middle (the wordy) draft to the final* draft that ended up in the show: The middle draft: The ‘final’ draft: * The final draft…
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One of my favorite childhood cartoons is a Soviet classic about a brave little raccoon. The only thing he was scared of was the Thing in the pool. And THE THING was scary: it would wickedly mug and shamelessly threaten the cute baby raccoon! I hated The Thing myself! I remember running up to TV…