The screenwriter of a Frank Capra comedy was watching a TV interview with the great director. An awestruck female reporter was heaping truckloads of praise on a passage from the writer's script, and Frank explained the scene's charm by saying, "That's the Capra touch." The reporter went on and on, gushing about various parts of many other Capra movies. In each case, the director's comment was, "That's the Capra touch."

The writer couldn't take it anymore, so he loaded 120 blank sheets of paper between two card stock covers, and impaled this "screenplay" with brads. He mailed the package to Frank, along with a note: "Put the Capra touch to THIS."


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