Famous Short Story

"Now, you're in the sunken place." If you recognize that line, you know the film whose script the Writers Guild of America just voted as the best of the past 22 years. Jordan Peele's Oscar-winning Get Out tops the WGA's just-released list of the "101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (So Far)". See the full list below. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Social Network, Parasite, No Country for Old Men and Moonlight round out the top six. All of them won a Screenplay Oscar, but three of the next four on the WGA's list — There Will Be Blood (No. 7),  Inglorious Basterds (No. 8) and Memento (No. 10) — did not. The No. 9 script, Almost Famous, took Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay. Christopher Nolan wrote four of the 101 top screenplays — 2000's  Memento,  2008's  The Dark Knight (No. 26), 2010's Inception (No. 37) and 2006's&nbsp...

Carlos Arthur Nuzman was found guilty after a trial that featured claims of rigged votes, gold bars and at least $2 million in payoffs to top sports officials. The man who brought the Olympics to South America for the first time has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison after a judge in Brazil ruled that Rio de Janeiro's success at securing the 2016 Summer Games was built on a bribery scheme. The verdict against Carlos Arthur Nuzman, the former longtime head of Brazil's Olympic committee and once a towering figure within the International Olympic Committee, came four years after he was detained by the authorities as part of a joint investigation into sports corruption by investigators in Brazil and France. Nuzman, who also served as the head of the Rio 2016 organizing committee, was found guilty of corruption, criminal organization, money laundering and tax evasion in a ruling published late Thursday. Law enforcement officials who conducted a raid on his home in 2017 f...

By: Dylan Dethier December 20, 2021 Tiger Woods and Matt Kuchar had plenty of time to chat during Sunday's final round at the PNC Championship. Getty Images We had just begun taxiing at LAX when I heard the beginning of a Very Bad Discourse. "So," the man across the aisle said to his seatmate, who was putting away her headphones. "What do you think of this 'Merry Christmas' vs. 'Ha...

In 1959, long before his books "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and "Roots" made him famous, an aspiring writer named Alex Haley, fresh out of the Coast Guard, wrote to six prominent Black writers in Greenwich Village for pointers on how to break into publishing. Only James Baldwin replied, showing up at Haley's place unannounced one afternoon and chatting with him. Haley was eternally grateful for such generous encouragement from the distinguished author. Alex Haley, whose centenary we mark this year, was my James Baldwin. When I entered Hamilton College in the fall of 1968, I was determined to be a writer, so I signed up for Haley's writing course, not knowing what to expect. I was already familiar with "The Autobiography of Malcolm X," his collaboration with the Black leader, which had become an instant best seller when it was published three years earlier; my sister had read it at Skidmore College and wrote to me about how powerful it was. (She...