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...stores; 235,000 copies are already in print. Christina got an advance of $225,000 when she turned in her manuscript, and paperback rights were sold for $750,000. In addition, Paramount has bought the movie rights for $300,000; Christina is getting $200,000 to write the screenplay; and her husband, David Koontz, who has produced mostly commercials up until now, is getting another large but undisclosed sum to produce the film. In more than 40 years in Hollywood, Joan herself never saw such a sudden avalanche of dollars...
...Screenplay by Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle...
...blanks on the screen; their personal metamorphoses are too sketchily written and acted to have any impact. The men's love interests (Anne Archer, Joyce Ingalls, Aimee Eccles) are all crassly conceived stereotypes; there is even a hooker with a heart of gold. Whatever credibility exists in the screenplay is soon destroyed by Stallone's direction. Paradise Alley is a cinematic minefield of bizarre transitions, cryptic anecdotes, continuity lapses and mushy dissolves. Despite Laszlo Kovacs' first-rate cinematography and Deborah Beaudet's evocative art direction, much of the film looks like a home movie...
COMES A HORSEMAN Directed by Alan J. Pakula Screenplay by Dennis Lynton Clark
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Screenplay by Tom Stoppard...