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...Screenplay by Paul Bartel and Richard Blackburn...
...fault for the film's flaws can only lie with Mazursky himself. He wrote the screenplay, produced and directed, and even appeared in a bit part as a producer friend of Antonia's. The story and the statement are his. And he recently made it quite clear that he is pleased with the result. "I can't change it," he says definitively, "nor would I want...
...himself. A New Year's Eve party Phillip anticipates will be "dull, pretentious and nervous" appears to parrot Mazursky's dislike of Hollywood tinsel. And when in an interview he says. "America has become kind of decadent; a lot of things have been too easy," he echoes his own screenplay of Phillip castigating Antonia and Alonzo for invading the Elysium he has created on a remote Greek isle. "I found paradise," his character says, "and you turned it into a slum...
...FAVORITE YEAR Directed by Richard Benjamin Screenplay by Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo
...claim a basis in fact: real events, real people, only the names changed to make everything seem so awesomely bogus. Journalist Cameron Crowe, then 22, spent the 1979-80 school year undercover at "Ridgemont High" in Southern California, then sculpted his observations into a book. Crowe's screenplay reunites his familiar cast: Brad (Judge Reinhold) is the lazily macho chef at the best fast-food joint in town. Damone (Robert Romanus) is the greaser who is about two-fifths as cool as he thinks he is. Spicoli (Sean Penn) is a premature beach bum with a glutinous Valley...