Though Charles Brackett is best remembered for his collaboration with Billy Wilder, he was a man of many facets. He wrote and/or produced forty films; wrote five published novels; was decorated by the French army; owned several business; was president...

It's 1944, and Howard Hawks has just hired William Faulkner to write the screenplay for Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep." Thinking about whom to bring on as collaborator, he remembers reading an outstanding hard-boiled novel titled "No Good From a Corpse." "Get me that...

INDIANAPOLIS A lot of people would think Gary Brackett was dealt a bad hand. The Indianapolis linebacker lost his mother, his father, and a brother during his first two years in the NFL. That he's starting and excelling in the Colts' revamped defense...

The problem with writing a book about a screenwriter is made obvious by the title of this book: If you have to give top billing to a director, you’re in trouble. Ian Scott’s In Capra’s Shadow examines one of the most interesting screenwriting talents of...

The problem with writing a book about a screenwriter is made obvious by the title of this book: If you have to give top billing to a director, you’re in trouble. Ian Scott’s In Capra’s Shadow examines one of the most interesting screenwriting talents...