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March 18, 2002 — Hollywood Reporter reports...

Author Sylvia Nasar and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman received the 14th annual Scripter Award on Saturday night. Nasar, who wrote the book "A Beautiful Mind," and Goldsman, who adapted it, were honored by Friends of the USC Libraries for the best film adaptation of a book or novella. "It's wonderful to be finally honored for 'Batman & Robin,' " Goldsman joked in his acceptance speech. He then turned serious, recounting how he grew up surrounded by schizophrenia because his parents founded one of the first homes for emotionally disturbed children and how he learned a valuable lesson from these kids who were described as "being without reason." "If you are running from the man in the coat rack, if you are brushing fire off your shoulder, or if you are gazing at a horse running in front of your third-story window -- nothing these kids were doing was without reason. We just didn't understand it," he said to the more than 300 guests gathered at USC's restored Doheny Memorial Library in Los Angeles.