Talk:Alan Ball (screenwriter)

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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Jreferee 17:59, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Themes

Is there a point to mention Ball's repeated use of the death theme? 85.250.181.120 (talk) 01:21, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

On the Culture Show on BBC tonight there was an interview with Alan Ball focussing on exactly this. Apparently he witnessed his sister's death in a car accident, and this seems to have had a bearing on his choice of subject matter and approach. 22:36, 10 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.202.152 (talk)

Victim of rape

During an NPR interview, something that came up was Alan being sexually abused as a child. A twist is he doesn't seem to exactly prescribe to traditional 'children are always innocent' views of underage victims of sexual abuse, which is a view which he carried through to some degree in Towelhead.--72.45.29.218 (talk) 01:48, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

No reason articulated. —harej (talk) 03:18, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Moving this doesn't even make sense. There are five individuals who are (approximately) named Alan Ball, moving this one to the dab page is fairly unclear. tedder (talk) 04:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose: In the United Kingdom, and I suspect throughout Europe, Alan Ball means the deceased English footballer with a strangely squeaky voice. Skinsmoke (talk) 16:52, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

• Oppose. We have several people named Alan Ball ergo we have Alan Ball as the disambiguation page. This is how we organize to address these naming issues. -- Banjeboi 00:02, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

Playwright?

Although he's best known for his work on film and television, he does have a successful career as a playwright. Would it make sense to add a separate bibliography for these plays, or rather somehow alter the filmography heading to be a more general "Works" and condense it all there?

I have the published copies of his two full length plays and a collection of five short plays of his, so I could take care of the proper citing there. I know he has a few more short plays that have been produced so I could see if I could find internet citations for them, but considering they are unpublished and not feature-length works I see them of lesser importance here.

216.165.95.72 (talk) 10:50, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

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