Talk:Script doctor

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Is it accurate to refer to script doctors as "rescu[ing] failing film projects." Towne was a script doctor on The Godfather, and Sorkin was a script doctor on Shindler's List. Were these films really "failing?" Watchsmart 03:41, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Changed. Watchsmart 06:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unreferenced list

Hi, With no malice or ill will, I have relocated this list here so that it can be improved. THere are several problems with it. First it is a list, and encyclopedias should generally have prose instead of lists. Second, the list not put into a useful order (e.g., chronological, by genre, etc). Thirdly, the list is completely unreferenced. If Wikipedia is to be a reliable reference source, we cannot have unreferenced lists like this. It is just too easy for jokers to add in false information. For example, I could have easily added in the false claim that John Malkovich was a script doctor for the filmPretty in Pink and it might stay in the article for YEARS, even though it is completely false. Nazamo (talk) 18:45, 1 April 2008 (UTC) ................................................................ Notable script doctors

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