It's a baseball reference. It could be literal - hit a home run in the baseball game you are going to play in. It could be a metaphor - do very, very well in whatever it is you're doing.

"Startup" is a technical term for putting a new business into operation. Back during the dot-com bubble we were always hearing about IPO's, or "initial public offerings," whereby companies "went public," offering

subtext problem by converting it to, well, plain ol' text. Very easy to do in Word. Highlight the scene, and then In the pull down menu, it's convert / subtext to text. I know, it's one of the best features in Word. I also sprung the

It's a while since I heard this metaphor cited, but it has had real currency in British English in the late 20th Century. Based, loosely, upon the observation that people who got caught, say, botching a shoplifting job, or put in the frame and

Hollywood workers urge strike end Hundreds of film and television production workers have marched through Hollywood to urge an end ... preparing to begin the new year season with a series of reality shows and repeats. Story from BBC

Cinematical Seven: Most Memorable Screenwriter Characters Posted Nov 9th 2007 8:02PM by Christopher Campbell Filed under: Classics, Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Scripts, Cinematical Seven, Lists In honor of the striking screenwriters, I wanted

So Long Johnny Hallyday The French have much to teach us. Too bad Americans don't listen. By   Long is a Hollywood screenwriter. Newsweek International A few years ago, I developed a script for an American TV sitcom. An aging French

Loved everyone's responses... through the layers I caught a quaint sentiment - cynicism. Nice... As a newbee to the group, which I found by accident, I can say, to give background of where I fit in, I am a cynical idealist who truly believes

Anybody around here have experience with the following company/website? http://www.thescreenplayagency.com/ Is it legit, or just a scam to make money ... for? Anybody around here had a positive experience with them, and actually sold something

The Lincolnshire Lay Subsidy of 1334 includes one Everard le Wikked living in Stamford (Bredecroft). Cool name, huh? My ... OE Inca, a wizard. But I wonder what nuances the word carried in the C14th. Anyone got an OED handy? Here's some of the