Unable to find a teaching position after earning an MA in Education from the University of Michigan, Lawrence Kasdan became an advertising copywriter, a profession he found so loathsome he refused to bring a second child into the world until he escaped it. Still, he labored at it for five years (even picking up a Clio Award along the way), first in Detroit and later in Los Angeles where he tried to interest Hollywood in his screenplays. Although he sold a script ("The Bodyguard") which would not make it to the screen until 1992, his screenplay for "Continental Divide" (1981) caught the eye of