delgadosaur wrote:
Okay Rak, I see your point, but as the conversation went on, I think that Bill and others pro-Bradbury, myself included, softened their respective stances toward a 'hey there's lots of good sci-fi writers around, why argue about it'.   
I didn't say anything particularly pro-Bradbury; I said he was the most famous SF writer in the world--which he has been, ever since about 1951.  That is not a claim that he's the best SF writer in the world.  This isn't a matter of "he's number one" except in the narrow area of fame. 
Ted Newsom wrote:
When a studio determines what they believe is final screen credit, it is submitted to the Writers Guild.  At that point, the writers who have been involved have the option of arguing for greater (or, rarely, lesser) credit than the studio suggests.  If it gets arguable, an anonymous three-writer panel reads all drafts of the material without name attribution and comes to a consensus of what credit should go to whom:  Writer B gets story credit, Writer D and G should split credit, etc.  The Guild also factos in things like contracts-- what job was the writer hired for?  Creating an original story?  Adapting a novel?  Writing a full screenplay?    
That's how it is NOW.  How was it set up in 1953?   
 
Incidentally, Lindsay Lohan has usually been a very good actor.  A better no-talent-but-famous-anyway example would be Paris Hilton. 

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