Script Comments
Maurice Chauvet on Owning Mahowny
Screenplay review of Antwone Fisher
Rose Troche on The Safety of Objects
Screenplay review of XX/XY
Rob Zombie on House of 1000 Corpses
James Vanderbilt on Basic
Chris Rock and Ali LeRoi on Head of State
The 2003 Sundance Film Festival

Special Feature: CS's Screenplay Analysts review
What is $10,000 of Screenplay Analysis Really Worth? An 18-Month Review by Nancy Hendrickson
Screenplay ""analysts,"" ""doctors,"" and ""consultants"" charge anywhere from $100 to $3000 for their services, but it's hard to tell who's who in this quasi-professional world. You have to be careful spending your hard-earned dollars, because there is nothing to certify these individuals as qualified to practice and no licensing board to complain to if you are dissatisfied with their work. Therefore, in the interest of saving you time, money, and frustration, Creative Screenwriting set out to analyze the analysts and give you our recommendations. Over 100 analysts were initially contacted; twenty-four asked to be included in our review. Over the next eighteen months, Creative Screenwriting spent over $10,000 sending our review script to each analyst. In this issue, you'll find the impartial perspectives of our reviewer Nancy Hendrickson on each service, as well as separate comments from the real writer of the script. Herein lies the most thorough and detailed review of the script analyst trade ever published.

Feature Interviews and Essays
Creativity and Wandering Ghosts: Interview with Ed Solomon
Ed Solomon is best known for writing big summer event comedies like Men In Black and Charlie's Angels. So why is he making his directorial debut on Levity, a quiet drama about a murderer's search for forgiveness? Solomon talks with Den Shewman about redemption, writing, and why he felt like a ghost in his own life.

Structure and process Interview with Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan's screenplays escalated genre films to an artistic peak during the '80s. So what did it take to bring him back to the genre fold? A chance to write and direct Stephen King's latest nightmare, Dreamcatcher. In Kasdan's candid interview with Jeff Goldsmith, he sheds light on his writing process, his history with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, and his first experience directing an effects-driven sci-fi film.

Columns & Departments
The Busine$$ of Screenwriting: A Room of One's Own by Ron Suppa
The Belly of the Beast: Thinking Outside the Blocks by Michael Lent
Agent's Hot Sheet: Peeking Into UTA's Locker Room by jim cirile
Writer Beware!: Screenwriting Contests: Winners and Losers, Pt. 2 by David Lanning
Production Company Profiles by Daniel argent
The Final Scene: Levity by ed Solomon