screenplay in the fifties that never got made that affected me strongly because there was a guy who was able to use life around him and push as far as anybody writing a novel was going to push." He later elaborated, "For me, it was quite a revelation because it was the first contemporary screenplay I had read that just opened up the possibilities of everything that you could put into a screenplay in terms of language and the observations of contemporary life". Little Fauss and Big Halsy and The All American Boy were among the first screenplays to be published in hardback by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Other original screenplays by Eastman include April 17, 1961, The Hundredth Monkey, Cowboy Christmas, and Kazhiamira and the Night Guys. He adapted the stories of Desperadoes and Boomer. Other produced plays he wrote include The Un-American Cowboy, Busy Bee Good Food All Night Delicious, and Borders. Eastman's short story "Yellow Flags" was published in The Atlantic and later anthologized in the 1993 O. Henry Prize Stories collection. Eastman's photo collection comprising over 50 years of screenplay research and celebrity photos is available through Getty Images. People magazine and Hello! UK published his pictures of a young Angelina Jolie in February 2009. References External links American male screenwriters 2009 deaths 1929 births 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters