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	<description>Welcome to Screen Takes -- where you&#039;ll find my take on the screenwriting issues showing up in current release films, as well as old favorites, and all kinds of other topics pertinent to screen drama. And while you&#039;re here, check out the rest of my site about my story consulting services. Enjoy!</description>
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		<title>Awakenings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s Ed and I after I got home from seeing Inception last night: Me: (grumpily) When are you going to get rid of that junk in the garage! I can barely get my car in. Ed: I guess you didn’t like the movie. Me: No, I guess I didn’t. . . . A few minutes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Get Real</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I’ve spent a lot of blog inches on the big films &#8212; Avatar, Robin Hood, The Last Airbender. Its time to get back to my roots. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, I was a journalist in New York championing low-budget and no-budget films. I worked among a loosely organized community of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenninelanouette.com/blog/?p=134</link>
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		<title>Roman Polanski&#8217;s Release</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These last two days, I have been watching the media clamor on Roman Polanski’s release with the same anguish I felt when I learned of his arrest last September. In fact, it was that event that prompted me to begin this blog. If you click on the “Roman Polanski” category to your right, you will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenninelanouette.com/blog/?p=129</link>
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		<title>What Went Wrong With The Last Airbender?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my students e-mailed me this week to make a request. “I&#8217;ve been secretly hoping,” he said, “that you will cover a movie you might not have a reason to see:  The Last Airbender. After my wife and I saw it, she said she liked the story, but thought it was poorly written and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenninelanouette.com/blog/?p=125</link>
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		<title>Robin Hood Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry I’ve been away for a while. I’ve been having fun. Doing exactly what, I’ll get to in a moment. But first a little background. While working on my last post about Robin Hood, I did some prowling around the internet and found this interesting story about “the other two writers.” You know, the two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenninelanouette.com/blog/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Why Robin Hood Is Not Gladiator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s Ed and I walking out of the movie theater after seeing Robin Hood. Ed: Well . . . I have one good thing to say about it. Me (brightly): Oh, yeah? What’s that? Ed: It employed 855 people. Lately, Ed has been making a habit of counting the names in the credits at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenninelanouette.com/blog/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Pratfalls and Promises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last couple of weeks I’ve been a bit preoccupied with a wedding in the family. My partner Ed’s daughter got married. Happily, there were no big dramas for me to dissect in that story. All was beauty, elegance, joy and abundant love. But a couple of days after, Ed and I were cleaning out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenninelanouette.com/blog/?p=115</link>
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		<title>The African Queen, Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week, I covered The African Queen in my Analyzing the Script on Screen class. I love that film. It is such a paragon of great screenwriting. But, lately, whenever I use it in class, I always feel compelled to precede it with a disclaimer. It is a sad fact that these days, almost 60 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenninelanouette.com/blog/?p=103</link>
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		<title>Truly, Madly, Deeply</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven’t been to the movies much lately cause I’ve been busy watching the third season of Mad Men now that its out on DVD. Last night, Ed and I holed up with disc number four and finished off the season. And today, like Don Draper showing up at the apartment of his latest sexual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenninelanouette.com/blog/?p=98</link>
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		<title>Jesus and the Great Dark Frog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I went to church and got a lesson in storytelling. This is, of course, how it has been for centuries – go to church, hear a story and learn something. I happened to be visiting my parents and it was  Easter Sunday. So off we went. Not long into the service, the minister [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jenninelanouette.com/blog/?p=96</link>
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