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ix The Albert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carrière, Richard LaGravenese, John Sayles, Tom Stoppard, and Rudy Wurlitzer interviews are used with the permission of their authors. The individual authors retain their copyrights for any uses of their interviews beyond any versions or editions of Backstory 5. The Albert Brooks interview was previously published in Film Comment, July–August 1999. The John Hughes interview was originally published in Lollipop, issue no. 47, Spring 1999.A version of the David Koepp interview was presented in June 2008 as an online exclusive of Writer’s Digest. Portions of the Richard LaGravenese interview first appeared in the September–October 2007 issue of Creative Screenwriting. Portions of the Barry Levinson interview were published in The Writer, May 2008. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS McGilligan_FM 8/7/09 11:49 AM Page ix McGilligan_FM 8/7/09 11:49 AM Page x ...

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