1. Frank Nugent was a scenarist who wrote a number of John Ford classics, including "The Quiet Man," "The Searchers," and "Two Rode Together." Just a little in–joke, I‘m sure.

2. Studio 18, the film production arm of TV18, is promoting scenarist Sooni Taraporevalas directorial debut, Little Zizou, among other films, while Saregama Films has Aparna Sens The Japanese Wife on its slate.

3. Rather, Hare shrewdly depicts George W Bush as a man whose power derives simply from the stubbornness of his convictions (regardless of their origins) and the lack of similar fortitude on the part of those who oppose him." Registering the only strong dissent was the LA Weekly‘s Steven Mikulan, who labelled it "less a play than a timeline" and found that "after three hours you don‘t know which to despair about more – the imperial direction of our foreign policy or Hare‘s declining powers as a scenarist". Our exposure to Hare‘s work, in LA at least, has been glancing÷ Davidson‘s Center Theatre Group brought us Racing Demon and Skylight, and a small local company called Theatre 40 offered a bracing reading of The Secret Rapture years ago.