Found on Wikipedia, no. 7
Interesting note about Casablanca:
“…there has been anecdotal evidence that Casablanca may have made a deeper impression among film-lovers than within the professional movie-making establishment. In the November/December 1982 issue of American Film, Chuck Ross claimed that he retyped the screenplay to Casablanca, only changing the title back to Everybody Comes to Rick’s and the name of the piano player to Dooley Wilson, and submitted it to 217 agencies. Eighty-five of them read it; of those, thirty-eight rejected it outright, thirty-three generally recognized it (but only eight specifically as Casablanca), three declared it commercially viable, and one suggested turning it into a novel.”
Found on Wikipedia, no. 6
Regarding a copyright dispute between Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and an unproduced script called Cast of Characters, the creators of Cast of Characters claimed that Moore stole their idea to write the League series. Moore is widely known to distance himself from film projects of his work:
Moore testified in a deposition, a process so painful that he surmised he would have been better treated had he “molested and murdered a busload of retarded children after giving them heroin.”
No wonder he’s a recluse.
Found on Wikipedia, no. 1
“David Simon has said that, when working on the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, Jay Landsman and he discussed the possibility that homicide detectives would be able to communicate solely through the word “fuck”. Years later, in this episode, he fulfilled this fantasy by having Bunk and McNulty successfully work a crime scene, communicating only through that word.” (link)
One of the classic scenes of American television (watch it here).
