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No list of great screenwriters would be complete without mentioning:
Shinobu Hashimoto who worked closely with Kurosawa on many of his greatest films including
RASHOMON, IKIRU, THE SEVEN SAMURAI
also:
SAMURAI REBELLION and HARAKIRI for Kobayashi
SWORD OF DOOM for Okamoto
and HITOKIRI or TENCHU for Hideo Gosha
amongst many other Japanese masterpieces
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I'm new to this wonderful thread.
Thank you so much, neo.
Your tributes here to Julius Epstein, as well as all the other great writers named, are quite moving and very magnificent.
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Carol Burnett once had such a beaming, natural beauty. Totally opposite fashion model beauty. It was a beauty all her own. Sadly, she ruined it by choosing to go under the plastic surgeon's knife, and her face was never again the same.
Pity.
Sorry, neo...my comment has nothing to do with your wonderful tribute here.
I just couldn't look at that last photo of Carol, without wishing that SOMEONE would have persuaded her not to have that unnecessary surgery.
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R.I.P. RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA. May 7, 1927 – April 3, 2013.
"The main purpose" (adapting classics) "is that I have such a good time. I mean, think of all that
marvelous material.
... Just think of spending all that time in The Golden Bowl and the other James and Forster books we have done. But especially Henry James because he has such marvelous characters and he has such strong dramatic scenes. You
just put your hand in and pull them out."
"Any adaptation you do it diagonally. You can take up the theme but you can never, never, never do it literally. You'd come up with a kind of travesty, if you tried to interpret anything literally ... Fidelity is not the first [thing]. No, I don't think so. Like I said, the theme and the feel of the characters ... the ambience and their relationships ... that is what you try
... but never, never literally."
[ "Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been a beloved member of the Merchant Ivory family since 1960, comprising one-third of our indomitable trifecta that included director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant ... The passing of our two-time Academy Award winning screenwriter is a significant loss to the global film community ..." ]
" I really want to go to the text itself, or to how the text came about - the personal and social
circumstances behind it." ]
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"With fiction, it’s mine entirely ... You have to do everything yourself that, in a film, the
director does, the actors do, the set designer does, the camera man does, the whole crew.
A novel is more than a blueprint. You have to work out everything yourself.
"Once a refugee, always a refugee ... I can’t ever remember not being all right wherever I was.
But you don’t give your whole allegiance to a place, or want to be entirely identified with
the society you’re living in.
[ "I told them I've never done anything like his before.
But they said, 'It doesn't matter. We haven't either.' ]
"As long as I can sit down in the morning and all these things come alive for me,
that’s fine. And it does come alive still."
 And always will ...
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First and foremost, STEVEN BOCHCO, starting with his truly envelope-shattering co-creation
of
And his equally bubble-bursting series that followed, among them
 
DAVID ABRAMOWITZ, who steered “Highlander: The Series” into heretofore unbelievably evocative, dramatic, shocking and inspirational heights from Seasons Two through Six via a gallery of not only unforgettable characters but FULLY exploring all the ramifications – emotional, psychological and, above all, Spiritual – when one has the complimentary curse of being Immortal.
COLEMAN LUCK and the coterie of consummate writers he enlisted as
unforgettable collaborators the last three seasons of this still-seminal late 80s
Edward Woodward series (accept  noooooo insulting, conceptually-disrespectable
and pornographically-violent egoholically arrogant big-screen abominations )
And, finally, we can’t conlude without including DAVID CHASE
 
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