Maybe you’re just jaded. The mirror one totally wowed me and I didn’t expect the ending at all.

To Hawks' credit, he just shrugged and hired her anyway.

According to Hollywood legend, that’s just what Howard Hawks said when a tall elegant woman got off the train instead of the man he thought he’d hired to write dialogue for his films.

Oh, boy. I have so much to learn. Leigh Brackett is (was) a woman?

One of my favorite writers ever, Leigh Brackett is one of those few writers whose section in bookstore shelves I automatically scan on any visit, in hopes of finding an upgrade, an unknown title, or just a good edition I wouldn’t mind having a second — or third, or fourth — copy on my shelves. And that goes for her…

Burrough’s Mars/Barsoom was great open prairies, dotted with palaces, sometimes deserted, sometimes occupied, but Brackett’s Mars was different.

I loved Hatari as a kid. It was all so exotic and that great Mancini music.

According to history Lucas was not happy with her draft of Empire and little remained once Kasdan took over. That’s not an indictment of her, though; if anything it’s an indictment of Lucas.

It tickles me to death that Leigh Brackett is getting some of the recognition she’s deserved. She was a Writer, but like a lot of her peers in the pulps she was savvy enough to make a good living at it.

For me, Hatari, El Dorado were huge influences. Both of these John Wayne action comedies are still in heavy rotation to this day on cable. They are packed with humor, fun, and brilliant character moments that are reflected in The Empire Strikes Back. It’s not a long stretch from the international team collecting…

Had a perfect backstory ,that we didn’t even want or need to know, small snippets about him being a bookworm and positively grim were enough .