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...screenplay has yet to be written, but the drama and excitement Bardazzi describes is evident at the exhibition she has curated, "Cézanne in Florence," at the city's Palazzo Strozzi Foundation until July 29. The 16th century palace has been painstakingly restored and this, the first show since its reopening, attempts a similarly careful reconstruction of the cultural life that Fabbri and Loeser found when they bought their substantial villas in the city. Florence was one of the key stops on the European Grand Tour undertaken by many wealthy and cultured Americans of the time, and the young...
That's about the only spot of humor in the script, by James Vanderbilt, whose widely circulated screenplay of Richard A. Clarke's Against All Enemies--yet to be made--is a model of compression and clarity. This one, with two main story lines (Toschi's official pursuit and Graysmith's amateur obsession) plus a character count in the high dozens and lots of leads that go nowhere, right up to the end, is necessarily a more sprawling affair. Yet it manages to be true to the complexity of the case while never losing cohesion or coherence...
...Everybody's looking at Gwyneth Paltrow's dress on the monitors when Bill Monahan, Best Adapted Screenplay winner for The Departed, says something about 61-year-old Irish Catholics, a sexual prosthesis and cocaine. We're pretty sure he's talking about Jack Nicholson's character. Darn that Gwynnie for distracting...
...Santa Monica, Calif., sun shone down on the dysfunctional family comedy Little Miss Sunshine, which won Best Feature, Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin - who's also nominated for an Oscar - Best Director for the husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and best first screenplay for Michael Arndt...
...fifth Best Picture nomination and a Best Actreess bid for Helen Mirren. The U.K.’s Paul Greengrass wrote and directed the acclaimed Sept. 11 film “United 93,” garnering him a Best Director nod. Other Brits picked up nominations in the screenplay categories, as well. Mirren is favored to take home the Best Actress statuette, assuming Academy voters ignore her earlier on-the-record remark calling the Oscars “the crème-de-la-crème of bullshit.” Her Majesty is quite right...