Talk:Alan Ball (screenwriter)

Biography assessment rating comment
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. &mdash;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. -- Banj e  b oi   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plays that have been produced so I could see if I could find internet citations for them, but considering they are unpublished and not feature-length works I see them of lesser importance here.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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