VERY GOOD: This is what we want
Dispositionally, he's one of those actors who'd rather work than be famous, who is more comfortable reciting Dickens for a small audience than he is wearing designer on the red carpet
Some students, naturally, will ignore my guidelines and take the easy way out, recycling a short story they wrote for a previous fiction class, putting their first name on the middle-age character, who happens to have gray hair and shares no characteristics, as far I can tell, with the twenty-year-old author
Back stories are revealed gradually over chatter and drinks, sometimes whispers, often from a distance and to the side, as the camera lens trains on the space structure rather than the humans within