WGA nominees announced

The Writer’s Guild of America has announced the nominees for the 2009 Writer’s Guild Awards. ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features Vicky Cristina...

Coen Brothers to tackle Chabon.

Ethan and Joel Coen will be tackling Yiddish-noir. No, this is not the name of a new short story collection, but rather the general flavor of Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon’s bestselling novel “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.””For sixty years, Jewish...