Dennis Kelly (born 1970) is a British writer for both the theatre and television. He is perhaps best known for co-writing BBC Three's sitcom Pulling with actress Sharon Horgan and for co-writing Matilda the Musical with comedian Tim Minchin.
Kelly grew up on a council estate in Barnet, North London, in an Irish family and was brought up a Catholic. His father was a bus conductor, and Kelly, one of five children, left school at 16 to work in Sainsbury's.
While working in supermarkets, he discovered theatre when he joined a local youth group, the Barnet Drama Centre. He took a degree in Drama and Theatre Arts when he was 30 and received a first from Goldsmiths College, London.
Kelly wrote his first play Debris when he was 30; he says he wrote it imagining he'd give himself a part. Staged at Theatre 503 in 2003, it transferred the next year to Battersea Arts Centre. It was well received and he went on to write the controversially titled Osama the Hero which was produced by Hampstead Theatre, beginning a long relationship with the theatre that he would return to often.
Roald Dahl ( /ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl/,Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl dɑl]; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence officer, rising to the rank of Wing Commander. Dahl rose to prominence in the 1940s with works for both children and adults, and became one of the world's best-selling authors. He has been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century". In 2008 The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". His short stories are known for their unexpected endings, and his children's books for their unsentimental, often very dark humour.
Some of his notable works include James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine and The BFG.
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Plot
Jeff Talley, a former LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved himself away from his failed career outside of Los Angeles, and away from his wife and daughter. When a convenience store robbery goes wrong in his turf, the three perpetrators move in on an unsuspecting family. But the family's father has a secret which might compromise his kin, and one of the criminals is about to jump over the edge. Jeff Talley has to get everybody to survive the night......if he can.
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Every Second Counts
Would you sacrifice another family to save your own?
On March 11th there will be no negotiation.
Mars Krupcheck: [while choking Jennifer] You're my girl. And my girl comes with me.
Mars Krupcheck: [leaning in really close to Jennifer when she's tied up] What's the best day of your life?::[looks at him, scared, and doesn't say anything]::Mars Krupcheck: You don't know?::[shakes her head]::Mars Krupcheck: Mine's today.
Dennis Kelly: [holding his dying brother Kevin] Mars, please, do something. Please. Please. Please. Please...::Mars Krupcheck: I am.::Dennis Kelly: What?::[Mars shoots Dennis]
Jennifer Smith: Would you stop it?::Tommy Smith: We need to help daddy.::Jennifer Smith: Shut up! Watch the tv. That's the police, okay? They're gonna help.::Tommy Smith: We gotta cut the tape.::Jennifer Smith: Shut up!::Tommy Smith: Pull all together, okay? Off the bed then like maybe we can get what's under the bed.::Jennifer Smith: Under my bed? What's under my bed?::Tommy Smith: Your bong. We can break it.::Jennifer Smith: What? Have you been sneaking in my room?
[watching a tape of Mars robbing a convenience store and shooting the clerk]::Wil Bechler: Classic foster product. Three years old, Marshall Krupcheck witnesses daddy kill mommy then sees daddy kill himself. You can guess the rest. [zooming in] Look at this. He was only seventeen at the time. [zooming in again] Clerk... He's trying to say something.::Jeff Talley: He's saying, "help me."::Wil Bechler: Yeah. Why's he standing there? Why's he just standing there?::Jeff Talley: He's not just standing there.::[pause]::Jeff Talley: He's watching him die. We're talking to the wrong guy.
Jeff Talley: Fucking rich people.
Jeff Talley: Why don't you tell me something that I don't fucking know?
Mr. Jones: [phone rings] That would be the white phone.
Kevin Kelly: Why do I always gotta go?::Dennis Kelly: If I'm buying, you're flying. Get outta the truck.
Dennis Kelly: Rich people always got a way out.
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Grand Canyon 2015
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Looking back on the memory of
The dance we shared, beneath the stars above
For a moment all the world was right
How could I have known that you'd ever say goodbye
And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance, I could have missed the pain
But I'd of had to miss the dance
Holding you, I held everything
For a moment wasn't I the king
If I'd only known how the king would fall
And who's to say you know I might have changed it all
And now I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end, the way it all would go
Our lives are better left to chance, I could have missed the pain
But I'd of had to miss the dance
Yes, my life is better left to chance, I could have missed the pain