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First Photo of Kate Beckinsale In Straczynski Co-Scripted “Underworld Awakening”

First Photo of Kate Beckinsale In Straczynski Co-Scripted  “Underworld Awakening”

  First Photo of Kate Beckinsale In UNDERWORLD AWAKENING … Gary Lucchesi, Len Wiseman, Richard Wright, executive produced by Eric Reid, David Kern, David Coatsworth, James McQuaide, Skip Williamson,...

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JMS co-scripted ‘Thor’ Bursts Onto Blu-ray 3D on Sep 13

JMS co-scripted ‘Thor’ Bursts Onto Blu-ray 3D on Sep 13

‘Thor’ Bursts Onto Blu-ray 3D/Blu-ray/DVD On September 13th Starpulse.com … Patricia Whitcher and Louis D’Esposito serving as executive producers from a screenplay by Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz...

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SDCC 2011: JMS Spotlight Named “Best of Final 2 Days”

  SDCC 2011: Preview the Best of the Final Two Days! Hollywood.com He’s written for Superman, Spider-Man,and Silver Surfer, as well as contributed to the scripts for Thor, and...

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Straczynski Co-Scripted ‘Underworld 4′ Changes Title From ‘New Dawn’ to ‘Awakening’

Straczynski Co-Scripted ‘Underworld 4′ Changes Title From ‘New Dawn’ to ‘Awakening’

AceShowbiz ‘Underworld 4′ Changes Title From ‘New Dawn’ to ‘Awakening’ AceShowbiz The movie has Swedish directing team Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein serving behind the lens with the script...

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VIDEO: Neil Gaiman Explains How Babylon 5 Experience Relates To The Origins Of His ‘Doctor Who’ Episode

VIDEO: Neil Gaiman Explains How Babylon 5 Experience Relates To The Origins Of His ‘Doctor Who’ Episode

MTV.com VIDEO: Neil Gaiman Explains The Origins Of His 'Doctor Who' EpisodeMTV.com"When I wrote my episode of 'Babylon 5,' I wrote it and handed it in, and Joe Straczynski...

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Graphic Book Best Sellers: Wonder Woman and Zombies – New York Times (blog)

Graphic Book Best Sellers: Wonder Woman and Zombies – New York Times (blog)

New York Times (blog) Graphic Book Best Sellers: Wonder Woman and ZombiesNew York Times (blog)This is the first half of the journey, written by J. Michael Straczynski and illustrated...

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Set Photos Leak of Brad Pitt on World War Z

Set Photos Leak of Brad Pitt on World War Z

Us Magazine Set Photos Leak of Brad Pitt on World War Z Shockya.com There is no release date yet but it’s slated to come out in theaters some time...

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Matthew Fox, Ed Harris Drawn Into Post-Apocalyptic World War Z

Matthew Fox, Ed Harris Drawn Into Post-Apocalyptic World War Z

The novel was optioned in 2007 by Pitt's Plan B Entertainment, with an initial screenplay by initial screenplay by J. Michael Straczynski. A rewrite by Matthew Michael Carnahan (The...

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Brad Pitt to film zombie movie in Glasgow

Brad Pitt to film zombie movie in Glasgow

The film is based on a screenplay by J.Michael Straczynski and will be produced by Pitt's Plan B Entertainment production company for Paramount Pictures. Producers are said to still...

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Movie Review: THOR

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN / Contributing Writer Writers: Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz and Don Payne, story by J. Michael Straczynski and Mark Protosevich, based on the comic books...

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Thor a great start to the summer blockbuster season

By Dylan Aucoin Screenplay and story by: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz, Don Payne, J. Michael Straczynski, Mark Protosevich I was intrigued from the moment I heard that Kenneth Branagh,...

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The Summer's New Hero: Thor-ge W. Bush

I don't know the politics of screenwriters Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Don Payne, J. Michael Straczynski, and Mark Protosevich. All I know is when I saw "Thor" last...

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Never Surrender Dreams

We are born capable of greatness. It's when we allow ourselves to become discouraged, to see ourselves as failures, when we fail to recognize our inherent nobility, that we grow small, and diminish, and ultimately sacrifice our dreams on the altar of more realistic expectations of ourselves.

When that happens, we forget who we are, what we are here for, and what we want to achieve, knowledge that is always within us...until we choose not to remember it any longer because the memory pains us, and because it is easier to settle for less than our dreams demand of us.

Children sing and dance spontaneously, tell stories without fear, reveal their thoughts without inhibition, and reach for what logic tells us should be unattainable. That is who and what we are in our most elemental form. We do, we explore, we ask questions; we pursue our heart's desires, we dream of achieving greatness. But as time passes, we learn fear, we learn to second-guess ourselves, and we learn to suspect our abilities and our desires. We are told that some people tell stories, some people dance, and some people sing, but these things are not for everyone. When we try to express our innermost thoughts, we are told to be quiet, that no one wants to hear what it is we have to say, and that even if they did want to hear it, what we say has no innate value. When we lose the spark of spontaneity that was born inside us, which is our greatest gift, we progressively eliminate the possibility of finding joy and purpose, and inch by inch, our dreams slip away from us.

If we are to be who we are, and what we are; if we are to accomplish great things, then we must learn the heart's most essential rule: NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS.