Word: script
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many distributors have passed on this Lolita, using as a primary excuse the constitutionally dubious 1996 federal law that prohibits showing sexually suggestive acts with children. But the commercial problem is not so much with the movie Lyne made, working from Stephen Schiff's carefully crafted script, as with the movies he didn't make...
SHOULD WINCurtis Hanson for L.A. Confidential, who also had a hand in writing (or at least adapting) the script from Ellroy's classic novel--with much better success, complemented by crisp, savvy direction...
WILL WINJames Cameron for Titanic. Cameron does have a way with large-scale spectacle, but he also wrote a clunker of a script...
...wowed many with her turn as the waitress-with-backbone (not to mention a great back) in As Good As It Gets, but she's too new a big-screen presence to win. Ditto for Kate Winslet(Titanic), who merits only compassion for her efforts to overcome a rotten script. Julie Christie(Afterglow) already has her Oscar dues; the showdown will likely be between Helena Bonham-Carter (The Wings of the Dove) and Judi Dench(Mrs. Brown...
...voyeuristic thrill inwatching the play. In addition, the number ofphallic jokes that abound in this play are enoughalone to give Freud reason for existence. Withfrenzied movements of calculated theatrical flair,the cast manages to eke out a even a few moreexaggerated and oversexualized actions than themultitude that the script itself provides. Inparticular, Burke, as Seargant Match, does ahilariously comical performance while describinghis efforts to recover that body part of WinstonChurchill which had been importunely stolen.Greaves and Smith are equally proficient inmilking every melodramatic funny bone in theaudience with their overactive (if repressed)sexual drives. However, the production takentogether...