Actor Judd Nelson (left) co-starred in "St. Elmo's Fire," co-written by Pitt professor Carl Kurlander (right). Carl Kurlander likes to say that if he’d been better at talking to girls, the movie that ...

Imagine you’ve been assigned to write a song for a movie. Only you can’t quite get into the flick’s characters or themes. John Parr found himself in that very same situation when he was called upon to ...