A couple of small quotes from The Great American Screenplay… at Seattlepi.com:

As Oscar-winning screenwriter Charlie Kaufman said in Seattle last year, “It's like an epidemic. Everyone I run into is writing a screenplay — waiters, taxi drivers, lawyers, accountants, you name it — and they all seem very dedicated.”

… Other defenders of the faith think the screenwriter's status as Hollywood secondary citizen is over, and point to the emergence of a new class of “power writers” like Charlie Kaufman, Ron Bass (who cranks out scripts with a factory of sub-writers) and Joe Eszterhas (whose past nine scripts have earned more than $20 million).

Thanks are due to longtime BCK newshound Tram, who now has her own blog set up: tell her I sent ya. Thanks also to our amigo, Scott.

On another note, you guys should keep your radars peeled for Zach Helm, who I mentioned a couple of updates ago. Haven't read his scripts, but everything I've read about Zach hints at a Kaufman kindred spirit. Lots of parallels between those guys. Anybody got copies of his work? Stranger Than Fiction? Magorium? Anything? Help a brother out.