More Than One Place to Read Screenplays
“Read Any Good Movies, Lately†by Joseph Hanania (Dec. 18) portrays Scenario, the Magazine of the Screenwriting Art, as the really only game in town for publishing multiple screenplays (four in each quarterly issue).
Let me correct the record. I am Sam Thomas, a member of the Writer’s Guild for almost 30 years, and editor of the ongoing series “Best American Screenplays,†published in hardcover by Crown (Random House), now three collections, with a fourth planned.
All of these anthologies--the first with a foreword by Frank Capra--are still happily in print since the initial work was published in 1986. These anthologies harbor the most outstanding American screenplays, some 30 in number. They feature such works as “Citizen Kane,†“Casablanca,†“The Godfather†and “The Godfather, Part II,†“Sunset Boulevard,†“Double Indemnity,†“Harold and Maude,†“Some Like it Hot,†“Treasure of the Sierra Madre,†and “Judgment at Nuremburg,†to name a few.
SAM THOMAS
Hollywood
Only good movies
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