Roundtables, 1/8.

It's another Hollywood Reporter roundtable. This time, Randee Dawn moderates the discussion: "There's newcomer Aleksandra Crapanzano, who's been adapting Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, and her fellow New York University film school classmate Joshua Marston (2004's Maria Full of Grace), who recently finished adapting Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude; Lauren Versel, who has scripted 25 screenplays for Hollywood studios, only to see none of them get made, and whose Lucky Monkey Pictures is co-producing The Trespasser for Fox; there's Neil LaBute (2003's The Shape of Things), in town to work on a new play called Swallowing Bicycles and pen a BBC TV series called Autobahn; and Shari Springer Berman (2003's American Splendor) has just finished co-writing and co-directing The Nanny Diaries for the Weinstein Co."

Ray Pride's found more writers around another table. John Koch hosts a conversation For Written By: "Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer and Anthony 'Ant' Hines spend their afternoons debating important details such as whether a bag to contain Borat's feces should be transparent or a solid color."

PS: It was fun being Craig for a day, but it's also great to have the account up-n-running again.

Posted by dwhudson at January 8, 2007 3:34 PM