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The great big list of fictional diseases

November 16, 2006 Genres, Resources

The Motaba virus sounds bad, but the cure — heavy doses of Dustin Hoffman — is arguably worse.

Follow-up, please

November 15, 2006 Meta, QandA

I’ve had this site up and running for about four years,To bring back nostalgia for the Olde Days of HTML, you can check out early versions of the site at archive.org. and in that time have answered approximately 300 questions from readers who wrote in, either to johnaugust.com or my column on imdb. What I […]

High net-worth individuals

November 13, 2006 Rant, Words on the page

Why not just call them rich?

Is the Slamdance script competition a bad idea?

November 10, 2006 Film Industry, Genres, QandA, The Nines

No. But getting a movie made is worth a lot more than any award.

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