Wifesy and I were watching J. Edgar the other day. I’m a huge Dustin Lance Black fan. As we were watching it, we were struck with a couple of moments where we thought, “That can’t be true.” Wifesy goes nuts when she’s watching something that she knows is based on a real person’s life, right away, she wants to know what’s true and what’s not. When the truth gets stretched, she gets angry. As a writer, this doesn’t bother me as much. I feel that the author has license and that whatever is in the interest of making a good story better, well, that’s okay by me. Lie if you want. Elaborate. Exaggerate. I don’t mind. But, not Wifesy if she feels that…
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