Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King)
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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Some Like it Hot, Stalag 17, Sunset Blvd.)
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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King)
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest, The Sound of Music, Sweet Smell of Success, West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?)
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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King)
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest, The Sound of Music, Sweet Smell of Success, West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?)
  5. Julius J. Epstein (Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben)

Cowriter of Casablanca with his twin brother, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch.

Goldman was an Oberlin grad, BTW, like me.

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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest , The Sound of Music , Sweet Smell of Success , West Side Story , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? )
  5. Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben )
  6. Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol 1 & Vol 2, Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds)
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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest , The Sound of Music , Sweet Smell of Success , West Side Story , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? )
  5. Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben )
  6. Quentin Tarantino ( Kill Bill Vol 1 & Vol 2 , Django Unchained , Inglourious Basterds )
  7. Nora Ephron (Silkwood, Heartburn, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle)
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Is the added spacing a Discourse “feature”? I assume it’s not universal or I think I would have noticed it before now. Is it something that’s triggered by the proximity of an asterisk and other punctuation?

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Let’s see:

(Marathon Man) – no italics
(Marathon Man) – asterisks typed in
(Marathon Man) – Italics button used

Doesn’t look automatic. I think I goofed in my post and others just copied-&-pasted and left that extra space in.

NOTE: The space after the question mark that ends your post was placed by me on purpose to make sure your quote showed up.

EDIT: Oh wait … now I see what you’re talking about. When someone quotes the post, the opening parenthesis gets an extra space placed after it. That is weird.

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Test.

Yep … spaces auto-inserted. All I did was select text and press “Quote”.

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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest , The Sound of Music , Sweet Smell of Success , West Side Story , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? )
  5. Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben )
  6. Quentin Tarantino ( Kill Bill Vol 1 & Vol 2 , Django Unchained , Inglourious Basterds )
  7. Nora Ephron ( Silkwood , Heartburn , When Harry Met Sally , Sleepless in Seattle )
  8. Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Persona, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander)
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Yes, we’ve discussed in ATMB Discourse’s annoying habit of adding a space before and after italicized text when quoted. Don’t know why it does that.

Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest , The Sound of Music , Sweet Smell of Success , West Side Story , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? )
  5. Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben )
  6. Quentin Tarantino ( Kill Bill Vol 1 & Vol 2 , Django Unchained , Inglourious Basterds )
  7. Nora Ephron ( Silkwood , Heartburn , When Harry Met Sally , Sleepless in Seattle )
  8. Ingmar Bergman ( The Seventh Seal , Persona , Wild Strawberries , Fanny and Alexander )
  9. John Michael McDonagh (Calvary, The Guard, War on Everyone, Ned Kelly)
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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest , The Sound of Music , Sweet Smell of Success , West Side Story , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? )
  5. Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben )
  6. Quentin Tarantino ( Kill Bill Vol 1 & Vol 2 , Django Unchained , Inglourious Basterds )
  7. Nora Ephron ( Silkwood , Heartburn , When Harry Met Sally , Sleepless in Seattle )
  8. Ingmar Bergman ( The Seventh Seal , Persona , Wild Strawberries , Fanny and Alexander )
  9. John Michael McDonagh ( Calvary, The Guard, War on Everyone, Ned Kelly )
  10. Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane, Dinner at Eight, The Pride of the Yankees, The Wizard of Oz)
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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest , The Sound of Music , Sweet Smell of Success , West Side Story , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? )
  5. Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben )
  6. Quentin Tarantino ( Kill Bill Vol 1 & Vol 2 , Django Unchained , Inglourious Basterds )
  7. Nora Ephron ( Silkwood , Heartburn , When Harry Met Sally , Sleepless in Seattle )
  8. Ingmar Bergman ( The Seventh Seal , Persona , Wild Strawberries , Fanny and Alexander )
  9. John Michael McDonagh ( Calvary, The Guard, War on Everyone, Ned Kelly )
  10. Herman Mankiewicz ( Citizen Kane, Dinner at Eight, The Pride of the Yankees, The Wizard of Oz )
  11. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, Eternals, The Rider, Songs My Brothers Taught Me)
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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest , The Sound of Music , Sweet Smell of Success , West Side Story , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? )
  5. Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben )
  6. Quentin Tarantino ( Kill Bill Vol 1 & Vol 2 , Django Unchained , Inglourious Basterds )
  7. Nora Ephron ( Silkwood , Heartburn , When Harry Met Sally , Sleepless in Seattle )
  8. David S. Ward (The Sting, Major League, The Milagro Beanfield War, King Ralph)

-“BB”-

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Wait, we went from 11 to 8?

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Housekeeping:

Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest , The Sound of Music , Sweet Smell of Success , West Side Story , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? )
  5. Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben )
  6. Quentin Tarantino ( Kill Bill Vol 1 & Vol 2 , Django Unchained , Inglourious Basterds )
  7. Nora Ephron ( Silkwood , Heartburn , When Harry Met Sally , Sleepless in Seattle )
  8. Ingmar Bergman ( The Seventh Seal , Persona , Wild Strawberries , Fanny and Alexander )
  9. John Michael McDonagh ( Calvary, The Guard, War on Everyone, Ned Kelly )
  10. Herman Mankiewicz ( Citizen Kane, Dinner at Eight, The Pride of the Yankees, The Wizard of Oz )
  11. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, Eternals, The Rider, Songs My Brothers Taught Me)
  12. David S. Ward (The Sting, Major League, The Milagro Beanfield War, King Ralph)
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Notable screenwriters, with representative films

  1. William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , Marathon Man , All the President’s Men , The Princess Bride )
  2. John Huston ( The Maltese Falcon, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Asphalt Jungle, The African Queen, The Man Who Would Be King )
  3. Billy Wilder ( The Apartment , Some Like it Hot , Stalag 17 , Sunset Blvd .)
  4. Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest , The Sound of Music , Sweet Smell of Success , West Side Story , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? )
  5. Julius J. Epstein ( Casablanca, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Tender Trap, Reuben, Reuben )
  6. Quentin Tarantino ( Kill Bill Vol 1 & Vol 2 , Django Unchained , Inglourious Basterds )
  7. Nora Ephron ( Silkwood , Heartburn , When Harry Met Sally , Sleepless in Seattle )
  8. Ingmar Bergman ( The Seventh Seal , Persona , Wild Strawberries , Fanny and Alexander )
  9. John Michael McDonagh ( Calvary, The Guard, War on Everyone, Ned Kelly )
  10. Herman Mankiewicz ( Citizen Kane, Dinner at Eight, The Pride of the Yankees, The Wizard of Oz )
  11. Chloé Zhao ( Nomadland , Eternals , The Rider , Songs My Brothers Taught Me )
  12. David S. Ward (The Sting, Major League, The Milagro Beanfield War, King Ralph)
  13. Harold Ramis (Animal House, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day)

Pass.

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NEW!

Cities south of the Tropic of Capricorn

  1. São Paulo, Brazil

(By a few kilometers.)

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Cities south of the Tropic of Capricorn

  1. São Paulo, Brazil
  2. Melbourne, Australia
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Cities south of the Tropic of Capricorn

  1. São Paulo, Brazil
  2. Melbourne, Australia
  3. Auckland, New Zealand