![]() ![]() ![]() In the two semesters I spent with him (I also took a creative writing class with him), I doubt he ever put together anything resembling a lesson plan.īut he did know good writing, and what it was that made it good, whether it was on the page or the screen. My understanding was Fox hadn’t been teaching at Carolina very long when I landed in his class, and it showed. ![]() Fox was a southern writer of some literary standing, and had worked in Hollywood for a time although he received credits on only two films: a for-TV adaptation of his short story collection Southern Fried (1970), and as a collaborator with Norman Lear on the screen story for Cold Turkey (1971). William Price Fox taught my screenwriting class. I’d had a few semesters of film production working with Super 8 cameras, and exactly one class – just one – on screenwriting. The University of South Carolina wasn’t noted for its film program then (or now). I tried to get screenwriting work by sending out resumes.Įven stupider it wasn’t like my college resume contained anything all that braggable. Here’s how stupid I was about the movie business when I got out of college in 1977. ![]()
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