Baseline will provide the names and phone numbers of celebrity contacts. Or, look for credits and plot summaries in Magill's Survey of Cinema. You'll find listings of 130,000 items available on video in the Video Source Book, and you can locate film collections by topic in Footage '89 and companion Footage '91. You can also review the year in film with The International Motion Picture Almanac. Most of all, have fun.
Research is an adventure.
Serendipity lurks between pages, in fiber optic cables, and among the bits on your computer. Pretty soon you'll be talking alleles, chromosomes, and genotypes, and you'll have amassed enough new story ideas to keep yourself busy all year. Paula Berinstein is a professional researcher, based in Woodland Hills, who specializes in working for writers.