Apropos of my BLOG post (09/06/17) and REFLECTIONS about “The Five Percent Rule,” referencing the need to be selective when deciding how much historical information to include in a creative work, read these remarks from an interview with Ken Burns by Ian Parker in The New Yorker (September 04, 2017, p. 53): “In the early years of production on a documentary, Burns [is] likely to be reading relevant historical accounts. … But he does not strive for expertise. ‘I can’t be in the weeds,’ of scholarship, he said. He has too little time and, besides, ‘It’s important to have someone saying, ‘Who the fuck cares?’” I count on myself, and my critique group, to tell me “WTFC.”
