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Forget “based on a true story.” This one was straight out of a Hollywood script...
...worse than the problem itself. Rather than accept the consequences of a mistake, the hero comes up with a solution that makes things worse, until things escalate into a climax either with hilarious consequences, or catastrophe, depending on the genre. Either way, it’s becoming a familiar script for this White House, which now routinely embarrasses itself not just by making the wrong choices, but by refusing to face them later on. Some poor decision-making in the White House makes the administration wrong, but it’s the effort to defend those poor decisions that makes...
...counterparts, Fey didn't make a movie in which she stars as a male gigolo or a former child star or a person with any kind of intestinal problem whatsoever. In fact, she didn't even make a movie in which she plays the lead. Instead, Fey wrote a script based on a nonfiction book, Queen Bees and Wannabes, by Rosalind Wiseman, who runs a nonprofit anti-rape organization for teens. And she somehow managed to beat Rob Schneider to the rights...
...most movies, Kaufman proved, may be satisfying, but it doesn't unearth honesty. "I don't know what the hell a third act is," says Kaufman, a former sitcom writer. "It's not a concern of mine." So after being embittered by George Clooney's conventional direction of his script for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, the painfully shy Kaufman (who until last month's appearance on The Charlie Rose Show didn't show his face in the media) is going to write a new script, pick his own actors and ask a studio to let him direct...
...most promising performers. Let Reese Witherspoon do the cutesy-blonde thing and Anna Paquin play the angst-y ingenue. Stiles excels at playing the man-eater, like the calculating teenager who sets out to seduce Alec Baldwin's movie star in 2000's State And Main, another Mamet script. It looks a natural, but Stiles says it's anything but. "You have to really work to find the humanity of characters in films," she says, "because they're removed from the audience." Her breakout performance came the following year in the critically acclaimed (if commercially unspectacular) The Business of Strangers...