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Friday December 11st, 2020 morning edition

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It’s time for another TMS video history lesson, this time about Carrie Fisher’s unsung skills as one of Hollywood’s most notable script doctors!

Script doctoring, or script consulting, is a skill that often goes uncredited and unacknowledged in Hollywood.

Writers will get hired to polish up an existing screenplay; just like doctors, they diagnose problems and suggest solutions.

Carrie Fisher’s career as a script doctor became the stuff of legend in the 1990s.

Fisher was responsible for fixing up Hook in 1991, Sister Act in 1992, Lethal Weapon 3 in 1992 and The Wedding Singer in 1998.

Fisher has been said to be one of the script doctors on board to fix all three of the Star Wars prequel scripts.

Take it from Carrie Fisher, young writers: don’t let other people take advantage of you. »

Texas election case: What you need to know about the federal lawsuit

Authored by independent.co.uk

Officials in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia have filed ferocious condemnations of the Texas lawsuit in the Supreme Court that seeks to overturn election results in the four key battleground states won by Joe Biden.

State Attorney General Josh Shapiro wrote: “Texas seeks to invalidate elections in four states for yielding results with which it disagrees.

The Pennsylvania filing continues: “Texas's effort to get this court to pick the next president has no basis in law or fact. »

A Florida man just paid off the past dues for 114 families at risk of having their utilities shut off

Authored by edition.cnn.com
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Michael Esmond's generosity started last year when he paid the utility bills of 36 households in his community of Gulf Breeze.

This year, with both Hurricane Sally and Covid-induced economic turmoil hitting the city, he thought he needed to up the ante.

Esmond donated $7,615.40 to pay for the past-due bills of 114 households, according to Joanne Oliver, the city's utility billing supervisor. »

A Florida man just paid off the past dues for 114 families at risk of having their utilities shut off

Authored by edition.cnn.com

Michael Esmond's generosity started last year when he paid the utility bills of 36 households in his community of Gulf Breeze.

This year, with both Hurricane Sally and Covid-induced economic turmoil hitting the city, he thought he needed to up the ante.

Esmond donated $7,615.40 to pay for the past-due bills of 114 households, according to Joanne Oliver, the city's utility billing supervisor. »

Hamilton to make Mercedes return in Abu Dhabi after testing Covid-negative, with Russell heading back to Williams

Authored by formula1.com
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Hamilton will thus reclaim his Mercedes seat, with Russell - who'd filled the Briton's seat so well at the Sakhir Grand Prix - returning to Williams and Jack Aitken thrust back into reserve duties for the Grove-based team.

The FIA, Formula 1 and Mercedes confirmed that Hamilton had passed a number of negative Covid-19 tests after completing a 10-day quarantine period in Bahrain.

READ MORE: ‘My mum was in tears’ – Russell reveals the emotional toll of missing out on Sakhir GP victory. »