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...whole 1960s (Remember Stern ? A Mother's Kisses ?), hasn't exactly been idle during his long layoff. He wrote The Lonely Guy's Book of Life, which not only advised single fellas how to cope but became a motion picture vehicle for Steve Martin. He did the screenplay for Stir Crazy and pitched in on the scenarios of Doctor Detroit and Splash. So it should come as no surprise to anyone that Bruce hasn't lost a step in the dialogue department. And the way he spins yarns is enough to make even nonreaders feel right at home. In fact...
...most part, the evening belonged to Amadeus, the fictionalized account of the last years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It won eight awards in all, including those for Best Picture, Best Director (Milos Forman), Best Actor (F. Murray Abraham for his role as Salieri, Mozart's nemesis) and Best Screenplay Adaptation (to Peter Shaffer, who rewrote his hit play). Tom Hulce, 31, also received a Best Actor nomination for his all-American, Huckleberry Finn interpretation of Mozart. Though he was not honored, Jeffrey Jones, 38, deserves a crown of his own for his portrayal of the blandly arrogant Emperor Joseph...
...black car," he reluctantly admits. "But that's all I want to say, more or less. It's too personal." He is building --which is to say he is actually constructing--a house in the Santa Monica Mountains for himself and his second wife Melissa Mathison, who wrote the screenplay for E.T. He also has a hideaway someplace in Wyoming. "I don't want to get more specific," he says, fearing, apparently, that he will be cornered and trapped in that little state, which is, after all, only about twice the size of England. But there he probably does relax...
...first film, Meatballs, was soon followed by a series of others in cluding 1984's top-grossing movie. "Ghostbusters," and Stripes, a parody of life in the Army. More recently he co-wrote the screenplay and starred in "The Razor's Edge," a serious drama...
...Screenplay by Bill C. Davis