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	<description>A bivalve sieving cultural detritus from the media stream</description>
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		<title>The Diplomatic Niqab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What links niqabs, the Black Panthers, me walking down the street naked with my hair on fire, and Barry Manilow concerts?]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=125</link>
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		<title>First Kanye, Next Eric</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kanye West's tweets and New Yorker cartoons are a marriage made in mash-up heaven. The wit and wisdom of Eric Cantona would work well too.]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=123</link>
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		<title>What Fresh Hell Is This?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First came the news that there's  a computer program that evaluates the merits of a script by comparing its "creative elements" to  previously successful films in the same genre to assess how audiences might react to specific scenes. Now we hear that Disney will not finance films costing more than $100 million unless the project can demonstrate its characters can be sold around the world as merchandize. All this does not bode well for originality or creative breakthroughs.]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Inception &#8211; Where&#8217;s the manual?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still scratching my head over Inception, Chris Nolan&#8217;s cross between a James Bondesque large-scale action thriller and a Matrix-like metaphysical videogame (or possibly Glass Bead Game). It&#8217;s absorbing in a three-dimensional chess kind of way, but never really emotionally involving, because the viewer  (well, me anyway) is always going &#8220;wait a minute. What level are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Feels Like 1930 All Over Again&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From FDR&#8217;s first inaugural address:
Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it  languishes in the very sight of the supply. Primarily this is because  the rulers of the exchange of mankind&#8217;s goods have failed, through  their own stubbornness and their own incompetence, have admitted  their failure, and abdicated. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=111</link>
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		<title>Tooting My Own Vuvuzela</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to the SSS clients who wrote into Creative  Screenwriting recommending me for the CS Guide to Script  Consultants. I made it in with a score of 4.67 out of 5, so now I can  hold my head high in script editing circles where, apparently, size  matters.
And thanks to Dan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=109</link>
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		<title>The Devil&#8217;s Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new service uses a database to compare a script's creative elements to those of similar films in order to predict how audiences might react to scenes, as well as to target demographics and potential marketing opportunities.  Is this the cutting-edge of the cookie-cutter?]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=105</link>
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		<title>Our Projects Are Out There&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Solid Script Service's client Giles Borg's 1234 now available on DVD]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=101</link>
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		<title>The Return of the Native</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What's new in New York: suburban chain retailers, increased greenery, and more manicurists than you can shake a cuticle stick at.]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=90</link>
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		<title>Where The Hell Is That Robot Maid?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When those robot servants finally do arrive, they may end up being less efficient, silent handmaidens than domestic irritant]]></description>
		<link>http://solidscripts.co.uk/blog/?p=87</link>
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