MILCH TO FILM UNFILMABLE FAULKNER

William Faulkner, who knew a thing or two about turning other great writers’ novels into movies (he wrote the 1939 screenplay for Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep and the 1944 screenplay for Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not), will have some of his own works developed into movies for HBO. As part of a […]

COURT OVERTURNS FCC INDECENCY FINE

In yet another blow to conservative parents’ groups and religious organizations battling what they consider indecent content on broadcast television, a federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a $1.2 million fine that the Federal Communications Commission had imposed following ABC’s 2003 telecast of an NYPD Blue episode that included a brief shot of a woman’s […]