Whose Film Is It Anyway? ; Scenarists Challenge Directors for Screen Credit

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You think you're not appreciated at work? Try writing for the movies. "I'm a screenwriter, working in an industry - the Industry, we call it - erected on the backs of mostly unpaid labor by talented and diligent hacks cranking out free pitches and spec scripts," lamented the pseudonymous "David Kahane" in a postmortem Oscars write-up for National Review Online. "Above the line but always low man on the totem pole. That's the price we pay for anonymity .."

Long-suffering viewers of this week's grueling Oscar ceremony no doubt caught the montage of movie clips paying tribute to the nerve- racking plight of writers, for whom nothing is scarier than a white page and a blank brain.

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Whose Film Is It Anyway? ; Scenarists Challenge Directors for Screen Credit

Then, after ransacking those brains for the ghost of a story, chucking away balled-up scraps of paper and pulling all-night sessions of composition and revision - if, after all that, they're lucky enough to see their work on-s...

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