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Bart and Lisa submit a script to their favorite TV program, the "Itchy & Scratchy Show" which is a brutally violent parody of the "Tom & Jerry" cartoons...
Roger Myers, the President of "Itchy & Scratchy International" likes the script by Bart and Lisa so much he fires his staff of regular writers from Harvard...
Quake has a similarly empty script, but by using a radically different "graphics engine," it will deliver mesmerizing 3-D modeling. Doom addict Trent Reznor, of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, has created Quake's heavy-metal sound effects. The enhancements make Quake much more realistic than Doom--and yes, bloodier. (Kids: heads fly off and roll around on the ground! Zombies actually pull chunks of flesh out of their hides and fling them at you, then explode like red water balloons when you shoot them with your nine-inch nail...
...This summer Disney and Warner plan to shoot competing versions of Pre, the tale of legendary Olympic runner STEVE PREFONTAINE, far left, who died in a 1975 car crash at age 24. Disney, which is spending about $7 million, had the edge initially, shooting crowd scenes last year. But script rewrites slowed the pace. Warner, with $25 million budgeted, has surged ahead, reserving the college track where Prefontaine ran. Filming could begin in June. Both sides had casting setbacks. Warner wanted Tom Cruise but got BILLY CRUDUP, left. Disney had eyes for Brad Pitt but got JARED LETO, right...
What are we to make of Gore Vidal? He has earned a respectable reputation as an essayist and novelist, but now he's irrationally determined to pass himself off as a screenwriter, particularly of the script for Ben-Hur. This past year his obsession has grown like crabgrass. Your story on homosexuals in film and the documentary The Celluloid Closet [CINEMA, March 11] said that in Ben-Hur, "writer Vidal got actor Stephen Boyd to suggest, sub rosa, a homoerotic tryst with Heston." That demands a response for the record. Vidal was in fact imported for a trial...