Lance Black: Last News

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorWhat’s harder to work with when it comes to writing a limited series — true stories taken from real life, or the stuff of fiction? A panel of top writers debated the challenges of working with headline-driven and historical material during the final hour of Variety‘s Night in the Writers’ Room on June 9 at 1 Hotel in West Hollywood.“There’s a little bit of a tightrope-walk in a true story that you don’t necessarily have to walk in fiction,” said Dustin Lance Black, the writer-producer behind FX’s “Under the Banner of Heaven.” He noted that the series, about the 1984 murder of a woman and her infant daughter in Salt Lake City, deals with three intertwined stories, one of which is fictional. “That one to me, I had a slightly easier time with.

Dustin Lance Black, the husband of champion diver Tom Daley, twisted a woman’s wrist “very hard” at a London nightclub, a court has been told today.

Tom Daley has admitted open water ‘freaks him out’ after completing a challenge for Comic Relief.The Olympic diver, 27, successfully completed an incredible challenge for Comic Relief where he was seen swimming, running, cycling and rowing across four days and raised over a million pounds in donations for the charity. However, the athlete made a surprising confession when quizzed by host Alesha Dixon and Paddy McGuinness about his time completing the challenge.