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Deviating from the familiar script in celebrity divorces, Lisa Marie Presley made no mention of a continued friendship or deep mutual respect when she announced that she and Nicolas Cage would be divorcing after three months of marriage. Instead, she displayed uncommon candor, saying, "I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place. It was a big mistake." Presley and Cage ominously chose to marry on Aug. 10, the 25th anniversary of her father's death. Their divorce seems less surprising than the fact that the union didn't last as long...
...earnestness that gets everyone involved. When Orlean read Kaufman's script, she originally decided she didn't want her real name in the movie because halfway through the film, Kaufman gives up trying to write an unorthodox screenplay and goes conventional, which means the movie's Orlean sleeps around, gets homicidal and deals drugs. But after meeting with Jonze, she was onboard. "Spike seems really earnest and sincere. He's not trying to be postironic ironic. I got this feeling that this was a very human effort and not an effort to be cool," she says. "You feel like, 'What...
...photographed or give his age (he's fortysomething) and won't talk about his personal life. So Jonze had to be the adult in dealing with the studio and the people depicted in the film. Jonze first got in touch with Kaufman after he read the Malkovich script, and Kaufman chose Jonze to direct it because no one else was interested. "When I heard Spike Jonze was interested in me, I thought it was the son of the bandleader who is also a producer out here. I didn't really watch videos," Kaufman says. He came up with the idea...
Poor Charlie. What's he to do but write a script about how he can't write a script--especially a script that anyone would readily green-light? That Adaptation, the finished film we are actually watching, is based on this desperate effort is his ultimate joke. Or the ultimate in self-referential moviemaking...
Whether audiences will be amused or annoyed by the final product is an open question. Director Spike Jonze is a Seinfeldian surrealist, and it's fun, especially if you happen to be a writer, to see Charlie trying to concentrate on his script while visions of coffee and a banana-nut muffin dance distractingly in his head...