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...know what's supposed to happen in the movie: a quick draw, a clean kill and a happy ending. But we've also seen repeatedly how reality has a way of departing from the script, frustrating hero and audience alike. The guy in the black hat won't go for his pistol or otherwise provide a pretext for the big shoot-out. The sheriff is left muttering that he'll get the varmint next time. And when the next time comes, there's often a new sheriff...
...seems unlikely that the power and artfulness of the Freejack script would have been enough to draw a success-seeking Jagger back into the world of movies. And we all know you can't always get what you want. So why has Mick come back after around 20 years away from the silver screen...
...joined by one or two co-producers on each film) and participating in every interview. The crafting of a Burns film proceeds on two parallel tracks. On the one hand, film is shot and archival material collected without regard for what they might illustrate. At the same time, a script is prepared without regard for whether there are pictures to illustrate it. The editing process that follows, says Burns, is "an incredibly difficult horse-trading maneuver, in which you realize that a whole group of images won't be used because there's nothing ((in the script)), and a whole...
...book is both bad and great, its prose lopsided and its effects crude, its power and pathos undiminished. In adapting it anew, California's Berkeley Repertory Theater has retained all the virtues and many of the faults. The first half of Neal Bell's script seems wayward, slow and sometimes cute, in part because director Sharon Ott opts for a too stylized manner of acting. The second half is riveting. This is a story of downward mobility, about a miner turned dentist (sans diploma) who winds up defrocked and doomed in an abandoned mine. In a stunning coup de theatre...
...film has courted scandal since it was a script, which earned a record $3 million for writer Joe Eszterhas. Before shooting began, the original producer, Irwin Winkler, quit, complaining that director Paul Verhoeven was obsessed with showing body parts "in various stages of excitement." Eszterhas also stormed off the project once or twice. Last spring the production was picketed in San Francisco by gay activists objecting to the script's depiction of killer lesbians. Everyone else was gossiping about the sex scenes. "Michael Douglas and I went as far as anyone could go," Stone told Movieline magazine...