Example sentences for: co-writer

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  • The chair was foisted on reluctant faculty by administrators eager to please wealthy donor Kenneth Lipper (a former deputy mayor of New York and, more recently, a co-writer of the screenplay of City Hall ). It took the historians and Jewish-studies professors on the search committee a year and a half to come up with a job description.

  • Critics lavish director Wes Anderson and co-writer Owen Wilson (who performed similar duties on Bottle Rocket ) with praise for their film about a bright but underachieving high-school misfit (Jason Schwartzman) who ends up competing with Bill Murray for the affection of a young teacher: "an exuberantly original comedy" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Murray has won several critics' awards for his performance, but now that the film is in general release (it had a brief run in December to qualify for the Academy Awards), a few dissenters have surfaced, including the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern and Slate 's David Edelstein, who says the writers "spend a lot of time patting themselves on the back for being aggressively unconventional."

  • Working from a trim novel by Tom Perrotta, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor don't squander their resources on crowds or parades or elaborate spoofs of ceremony, the way most political satires tend to do.

  • Credit goes to co-writer/star John Cusack, who "brings his droll intelligence to bear on a worthy comic invention, ...

  • Lacking heroes, villains, and a moral compass, the first two-thirds of the film leaves you adrift, which means that Hanson and his co-writer, Brian Helgeland ( Conspiracy Theory ) have to absorb you with the force of their storytelling.


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