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...Diller wasn't furious at the Robertses, others were mad enough at the family to make up for the omission. "Hollywood couldn't have written a script like this," snapped a source close to CBS chairman Laurence Tisch. "All these cable-cum-broadcasting people, they have three traits: they're phenomenally greedy, they're phenomenally jealous, and they're filled with a lot of hate for their competitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Get a Job? | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...hollywood joke: a movie executive at a story conference exclaims, "This is a great script! Who can we get to rewrite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Miracle Surgery | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...features Susan Sarandon ("Bull Durham," "Thelma and Louise") and Tommy Lee Jones '69 ("The Fugitive"), along with a terrific debut performance from 10-year-old Tennessee street kid Brad Renfro, it would seem that Schumacher couldn't go wrong. Nevertheless, the director's painfully close adherence to the Grisham script fails to inspire...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Schumacher Continues 'Firm' | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

...family man; on the other, he's a superstar, which means that so much is expected of him." The role is oddly similar to Schwarzenegger's persona in Last Action Hero: someone who plays a superman at work but in the real world is stranded without a script. Harry is, after all, just a performer. Other agents are his directors; they tell him what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Lies, True Lies and Ballistics | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

Hanks is a kid again in director Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump. Slow-witted and likable, Forrest races through the rubble of the '50s, '60s and '70s. Thanks to novelist Winston Groom's cunning plot (Eric Roth wrote the script) and some nifty visual effects, Forrest pops up in many a historic venue: with George Wallace at the schoolhouse door, in the seared rice fields of Vietnam, along the Great Wall of China, at the Watergate Hotel during a third-rate burglary. As his mother and his pals die around him, he pursues his life's love; the movie might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Hollywood's Last Decent Man | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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