Today, Lana Turner would probably be discovered on the Net, not, as the legend goes, at a drugstore counter. Clips from the RV experiment, which runs through Saturday, will be posted along with other submissions, and visitors to the site will pick their favorites. Screenwriters can submit a synopsis, and, if InZide staffers think the idea has potential, they will read the script free of charge and offer feedback. Since launching in September, the site has received thousands of submissions, Zide says. He is in the process of developing four of them.
Most outfits specializing in providing professional critiques charge a fee.
If a script gets a ''consider'' grade, it can be posted on the site. That process worked out for Craig Doyle, who submitted his inside-Hollywood story Martin Guthrie to ScriptShark. Others who run script sites have found promising material as well. IAM has about 150 casting directors, choreographers, and scouts from record companies and modeling agencies signed up to browse the site's photographs, biographical information and music. Casting directors say, 'On average, I can see 50 people a day.