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Quentin Tarantino Suing Alan Ball for Having Really Loud Birds

CinemaBlend reports that Quentin Tarantino, writer and director of such classics as Pulp Fiction, is suing Academy Award-winning screenwriter Alan Ball, writer of American Beauty, because of “blood-curdling screams” emanating from an “exotic bird menagerie.”...  read more

True Blood Creator Alan Ball to Produce Yet Another HBO Show

Whether it’s an ill-fated family of undertakers, homicidal suburbanites or the literal undead, writer/producer Alan Ball is never one to shy away from mortality....  read more

True Blood: The Complete First Season

Was Alan Ball’s latest HBO project, True Blood...  read more

Despite rocky start, HBO picks up True Blood for season two

Does HBO know something we don't know? Despite mixed reviews and a small viewer base so far, the network has already picked up True Blood for a second season, sticking with the hard-knuckled publicity campaign it has already orchestrated for the series....  read more

Towelhead

Screenwriter Alan Ball (American Beauty, Six Feet Under) is no stranger to...  read more

Despite controversy, Warner Bros. sticks with Towelhead

When a small movie called Nothing is Private debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last year, it didn't exactly come quietly. For one thing, the man behind it was Alan Ball, the writer of American Beauty and creator of Six Feet Under, who made a name for himself with subversive dramas unafraid of the darker aspects of American life. And its subject, a 13-year-old Lebanese-American girl who must sift through ethnic and sexual tension in early-’90s Houston, left even seasoned festival audiences a little squeamish. ...  read more

Sundance 2008: Towelhead interview

Click above to watch an exclusive interview with Summer Bishil and Peter Macdissi, stars of Towelhead, the debut film from Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball....  read more