She’s Gone Country
by Louise Farr
Callie Khouri leaves Hollywood’s fear country for Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry and a ring of fire. 

The Original Family Feud
by Lisa Rosen
Ted Mann and Ronald Parker transform a crazy hillbilly story into the Hatfields & McCoys. 

Remembering T.S. Cook
by Robert Eisele
The late Tom Cook’s friends remember him as a searcher, lover of the sea, and man of fierce backbone.  

An Honest Laugh
by Lisa Rosen
The public’s appetite for Judd Apatow’s midlife crisis is insatiable. Being 40-something has its benefits. 

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
by Lisa Rosen
Argo is and isn’t make believe. Only Chris Terrio knows the truth. 

Promises, Promises
by Amy Dawes
Fracking Promised Land with Matt Damon, Dave Eggers, and John Krasinski.  

Taming the Tiger
by Richard Stayton
Life of Pi could never be a movie — until Ang Lee called David Magee. 

Persistence of Vision
by Louise Farr
In the searing documentary West of Memphis, Amy Berg and Billy McMillin expose criminal injustice. 

Darkness Made Visible
by Louise Farr
Rape in the American military has metastasized to epidemic proportions, proved by Kirby Dick’s The Invisible War. 

The Good Doctor
by Louise Farr
Writer, heal thyself and get on board the Storybus with Neal Baer. 

Speaking Their Language
by Lisa Rosen
Switched at Birth pushes hearing-impaired adolescents into high school bedlam. Lizzy Weiss tells why it’s music to their ears. 

A Charmed Event
by Paul Chitlik
How childhood polio allowed Ben Lewin empathy for The Sessions. 

Paying It Forward
by Neely Swanson
The Cosby Show saved the sitcom genre from extinction. And it taught a generation of writers how not to get a laugh. 

A Gift of Independent Means
by Richard Stayton
Get out your handkerchiefs for Ruby Sparks, Zoe Kazan’s screenwriting debut. 

Sleight of Hand
by Lisa Rosen
Why Jeff Eastin transforms the White Collar writers’ room into a classroom. 

Zen & the Art of Hollywood Archery
by Mary McNamara
Gary Ross masters The Hunger Games. 

The First Corleone Family
by Julio Martinez
The Borgias offer Neil Jordan a Godfather prequel. 

Sanctuary
by Mark Roberts
Theater inspired Mike & Molly. 

Southern Gentleman
by Robert Harling
How Tate Taylor offered a hand to a childhood friend and created a love story that made The Help a hymn of the South. 

The Inventors
by John Logan & Brian Selznick
Constructing child’s play into art. You go, Hugo! 

A Gradual Ascent
by Rob Feld
The long climb of Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, and Alexander Payne to The Descendants.