Stephen Sondheim has three tips for good writing: 1. God is in the details. 2. Less is more. 3. Content dictates form. It's useful to consider these tips in relation to "Spotlight," which has one of my favorite screenplays. - God is in the details. This script shows us Mark Ruffalo asking Michael Keaton, "Are you golfing?" Keaton says, "Golfing is not a verb." We know this conversation has happened before. We know Keaton is precise and mildly irritated. We know Ruffalo is absent-minded and could not care less. We also know we are in a world of writers, where the issue of "to golf" would be, well, an issue. Masterful. Rachel McAdams will struggle to reconcile her journalistic duties with her ties to her Catholic family. We see this right away, with a chat about "Father" at the dinner table, tense murmuring during a dish-washing session, McAdams seeming watchful and strained at Sunday mass. (And McAdams doesn't do any ov...