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Twin Cities screenwriter Michael Starrbury has movie at Sundance

by: COLIN COVERT , Star Tribune

Updated: January 28, 2013 - 10:20 AM

Back in the 1990s, when Stephon Marbury was one of the Timberwolves’ most promising stars, a self-taught beginning screenwriter in Brooklyn Park decided to adopt the lead guard’s nickname as a good-luck token. Mike Sims chose the pen name Michael Starrbury because his own sounded “too boring.” And while Marbury fizzled, Starrbury’s career soared.

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