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...Waters based his script on memories of "The Buddy Deane Show," a Baltimore staple that had entranced the young style maven. "I loved it," Waters recently told Blake Green of Newsday. "They [the dancers] were my imaginary friends. I used to watch the show and draw exaggerated hairdos and make up fictitious biographies for all of them. I even danced on the show - twice, both times the dirty boogie. Then I smoked pot and that was all over. My friends radically changed. No more Buddy Deane...
...movie. But Hannibal Lecter is a two-dimensional character in Manhunter." Screenwriter Ted Tally (who also adapted Lambs) wasn't intimidated. "I didn't have any interest in re-creating Manhunter, which to me was kind of like a Miami Vice episode," says Tally. "I love the book." His script, which explores all the characters' psychological underpinnings, helped get the esteemed cast on board: Edward Norton as Will Graham, Ralph Fiennes as the serial killer and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a tabloid reporter who expires, memorably, in a speeding, flaming wheelchair...
Although the kids were the brains behind the script, Harvard employees who knew Nash handpicked him to be the psycho on the screen...
...submit to unfettered inspections, the Security Council's response was to send UN inspection chief Hans Blix to Vienna to discuss practical arrangements for resuming such inspections. But in the absence of any new Security Council resolution changing the terms of inspections, Blix is working off the existing script - one which is unlikely to satisfy U.S. demands. Indeed, media reports claim that a new Security Council draft resolution being proposed by the U.S. and Britain includes demands for access to the presidential sites and all other government buildings and mosques; for security forces to accompany the inspectors into Iraq...
There were other concerns. The ending was reshot in order to make her character more sympathetic. The original script by C. Jay Cox received an overhaul from the uncredited but expensive screenwriter Robert Harling (First Wives Club). At $30million, the movie is expected to be a hit with women, though its chances of seducing significant numbers of males is slim. It's a good example of why Hollywood has such a hard time making romantic comedies. Financially limited, creatively challenging, the genre has fallen onto Hollywood's endangered-species list...