Standup Jon Richardson on turning his dark teenage diaries into a tearjerking memoir: ‘I couldn’t sugarcoat those years’
While facing grief, illness and a very public breakup, the comic reached for his diaries – and found a happy kid who spiralled into despair. Inspired by a Nobel laureate, he wrote a frank, funny book about that boy and what he grew into
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Netflix says its international shows are working as Peter Rice takes over content
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David Fincher cut 60 pages from Tarantino’s Cliff Booth script. Here’s why
Fincher says the first draft ran to 230 pages and felt like two movies. He and Quentin Tarantino have described how they focused the Brad Pitt follow-up.
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