As for his first experience on a hit TV show: "It's a wonderful experience being a young actor, being a black actor, and being able to get good writing, good scripts to enact, it's a lovely thing, " Hill says.

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He wrote 14 pages of a novel in a joltingly weird voice and emailed them to Mr. Salerno, a writer-producer who was trying to help him get a movie that could be made outside the usual studio development process, where good scripts often go to die.

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Express Scripts (ESRX) is a good candidate to short sell on any big bounce.

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Netflix offers something different: shows with good budgets, terrific casts, high-concept scripts, and the best talent in Hollywood writing, producing, and directing them.

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Apparently snapping shots on a whim to tell your life story just isn't good enough these days, as folks are writing scripts to take unplanned photos of their groggy faces and strapping head-mountable cameras to their skulls in hopes of producing the next worldwide YouTube hit.

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