re: Directors
When not at home what pays the chicken bills is being a court reporter (court stenographer...one of those people with the disco typewriters taking down the legal proceedings). Anyway, my biggest pet peeve is when they have courtroom scenes on TV or in the movies and the person playing the reporter quite obviously hasn't a clue how the stenotype machines operate. A whole mess o' dialogue goes by and then they show the reporter pressing one key. In real life we're on it syllable per syllable word-for-word and typing, oh, like 240 wpm using all fingers.