FSM bless Ayn Rand.  Surely she must go down in history as one of the most important and influential women in history.  If somebody were to start planning a &quot;Mount Rushmore of Great Women&quot; I&#x27;d lobby for Ayn Rand to be the first person chosen for inclusion.<p>Very few people have been more active and more influential, in terms of defending the ideals of freedom and liberty, than Ayn Rand.  Whether &quot;academic&quot; philosophers take her seriously or not is irrelevant - she Gets It and had a way of writing that communicated some very subtle and powerful ideas.  I would be much diminished as a human being if I had not read <i>The Fountainhead</i> and <i>Atlas Shrugged</i>.<p>I didn&#x27;t know about this particular work prior to today, but I&#x27;m glad it got posted (even though I&#x27;m not a screenwriter or anything of that sort).  It&#x27;s exactly what you would expect from Rand - direct and to the point, no bullshit, and deadly accurate.  Let&#x27;s hope all aspiring screenwriters read this and take it to heart.