Paul Attanasio is an American screenwriter and producer of film and television, who is currently an executive producer on the television series House. Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed. ... House (formerly titled House, M.D.) is an American television series; an hour-long medical drama that debuted in the fall of 2004 and stars Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning British actor Hugh Laurie. ...

Attanasio was a film critic for The Washington Post from 1984 to 1987. He started writing for television with the CBS sitcom Doctor Doctor and the NBC crime drama Homicide: Life on the Street. In 1994 he wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays adaptations: the drama Quiz Show, the thriller Disclosure and Sphere, the gangster movie Donnie Brasco , and the political thriller The Sum of All Fears . He returned to television and started executive producing in addition to writing the medical drama Gideon's Crossing and the pilot for R.U.S.H. The Washington Post is the largest and oldest newspaper in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see CBS (disambiguation). ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... NBC, formerly called the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... There are many articles named Drama: Drama, the art form. ... Homicide: Life on the Street is an American television drama series chronicling the life of a fictional Baltimore police homicide unit. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Quiz Show is a 1994 film which tells the true story of a quiz show scandal of the 1950s. ... Donnie Brasco is a 1997 film by Mike Newell starring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. ... The Sum of All Fears is a best-selling thriller novel by Tom Clancy, and part of the Jack Ryan series. ... Gideons Crossing was a US medical drama loosely-based on the experience of the real life Dr. Jerome Groupman. ...

For 2006 he will write the screenplays for the films The Good German and East of Eden. East of Eden book cover East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. ...

He is the brother of Mark Attanasio, owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. He is a graduate of Harvard University and lived in Currier House. Mark L. Attanasio is a Los Angeles investment banker who, in September of 2004, reached a deal to purchase the Milwaukee Brewers from Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Bud Selig for US$180 million. ... Major league affiliations National League (1998-present) Central Division (1998-present) American League (1969-1997) Central Division (1994-1997) East Division (1972-1993) West Division (1969-1971) Major league titles World Series titles (0) None NL Pennants (0) None AL Pennants (1) 1982 Central Division titles (0) None AL East... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Currier House is one of the twelve undergraduate residences of Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

External links

• Paul Attanasio at the Internet Movie Database