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...describes his script, "What it Takes," as "sort of like 'Clueless' but from a male's perspective, about coming of age in Beverly Hills" and says that his piece may have been optioned before 'Clueless' was sold...
Although his screenplay was never produced, May says that during his film negotiations he learned many technical skills such as how to format a script, how to manipulate voice-overs and how to define character action while still allowing for actor interpretation...
...clear that [my script] had been written by an amateur, but I think that they expected that," he says. "I suspect that they were also excited to tout something new and unique, a young kid writing a screen-play...
...sadness, this is still an engaging play, and the AAA players' interpretation was especially intriguing. Though the script remained unchanged for the most part, the Americans here were Asian-Americans, the Russians became Chinese and Budapest was transplanted to a city in Vietnam to "make Chess contemporary and applicable for us in the '90s," according to the director's note. Two traditional Vietnamese songs--"Ly Ngua O" and "Ly Chieu Chieu"--were beautiful additions to the script. Twice during the play, slides were shown on the back wall of the set. The first set of slides featured professional Asian-American...
...convocation of moguls had gathered at the Beverly Hills Hotel, that pink palace on Sunset Boulevard, to divvy up Saving Private Ryan, a World War II drama starring Tom Hanks, in the works for the summer of 1998. Paramount had the script; DreamWorks had the dream director, Steven Spielberg. That the two studios would agree to share the picture is not that unusual. But which one would get to distribute it in the U.S., and which would get the rest of the world? Both sides wanted the domestic release, which means getting the glory if the picture...