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Ken Levine
Personal blog · kenlevine.blogspot.comculturewriting
Ken Levine's personal blog at kenlevine.blogspot.com covers culture and writing. Since 2010, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “The Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin posts about the portrayal of women.”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Ken Levine's posts as sources on Hollywood and TV topics, including Aaron Sorkin's responses to criticism of The Social Network's portrayal of women, an NBC logo example, and a Ricky Jay tribute.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Ken Levine's daily column about writing, producing and watching TV sitcoms, TV dramas, film, pop culture and life.
Most-linked posts?
- The Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin posts about the portrayal of women.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-10-12
What Hacker News says?
And frequently equally bad results, such as picking a logo almost exactly the same as another company in the same sector. For instance, the NBC TV network in 1975 hired consultants to make a logo almost exactly the same as Nebraska Educational Television: http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-of-nbcs-great-blun... I worked as a webdev for the Cornell University Library (more than 70 web sites) at the time when C…
Comment linking /2011/09/one-of-nbcs-great-blunders.html
on “Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained”Submitted The Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin posts about the portrayal of women. as a story · 105 points
HN discussionThe writer of the movie seems to disagree with you. Sorkin writes: "It was a revenge stunt, aimed first at the woman who'd most recently broke his heart (who should get some kind of medal for not breaking his head) and then at the entire female population of Harvard." This page is obligatory reading on this debate (previously posted to HN): http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/10/aaron-sorkin-responds-... Now, I'm not…
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on “Mark Zuckerberg on What Hollywood Doesn't Get About Silicon Valley”Submitted Okay...this is AMAZING as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere's someone who knew him very well's personal tribute: http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-loving-tribute-to-ri...
Comment linking /2018/11/a-loving-tribute-to-ricky-jay.html
on “Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets (1993)”Submitted I won't give Zach Braff one dime as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAaron Sorkin interviewed on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/10/17/... source: Follow up post by Ken Levine: http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2010/10/aaron-sorkin-on-cnn.ht...
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on “The Social Network scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin posts about the portrayal of women.”Submitted Syndicated sitcoms sped up to squeeze in more ads as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I won't give Zach Braff one dime on Kickstarter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Social Network screenwriter Aaron Sorkin interviewed on CNN as a story · 1 points
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