Word: boying
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...lowly status is on the verge of a major rewrite. As studios battle one another for the limited supply of surefire scripts, screenwriters have begun snaring huge fees. In a spectacular bidding war among major studios last month, producer David Geffen bought a Shane Black script titled The Last Boy Scout for $1.75 million, which is believed to be the most ever paid for a single screenplay. Says Black: "I really won the lottery this time...
...Pittsburgh native, Black, 28, had earned $400,000 for writing Lethal Weapon. He spent four months holed up in a cabin to write Boy Scout, an action mystery in which a private eye and a retired football player team up to solve a murder. Black wrote the script "on spec," meaning on a speculative basis with no studio commission, a status that entitled him to shop it around for the highest price. The bidding started with an offer of $850,000 from 20th Century Fox and escalated until Carolco Pictures reached a top bid of $2.25 million. But the screenwriter...
...Crimson ran an editorial titled "Be Consistent" on the subject of Harvard's association with scholarships that discriminate against various groups. If Harvard refuses to take money from the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), you argued, it must also refuse to take money from other scholarships that discriminate (e.g. Boy Scouts and religious organizations). In your words, if Harvard refuses to accept money from ROTC but takes it from others, then Harvard is "playing hypocrisy...
...novel is saved from melodrama by the presence of the camp's founder, the "Chief," who disdains Boatner's poetic, dense voice for simple words, hard and clear. After the death of a boy at camp, he intones, "We thank you for all that's left to the living. Help us see what it is and where to find it." A prayer...
...just a character. (Was Jack Benny really stingy? Is Pee-wee Herman really a goony child?) Bruce said what he thought; Clay says what his character thinks. So Clay and other entertainers on the edge are playing out fantasies -- their own and their audience's -- of the baddest boy in school, of the kid your parents prayed to God you would never become...