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...writing an episode right now that revolves around the Itchy and Scratchy show," says Cohen, who adds that the episode will likely include Oakley as a character. "It uses the writers several times... but it's the kind of a thing, once I hand the script in [that can change...
...Since it takes 10 months from when the script is written to animate the show, we are in production 51 weeks per year," says Oakley...
...strategy of Michael Crichton and his wife Anne-Marie Martin, who wrote the script, is obvious: turn the chaotic tragedy of natural disaster into a PG-13 thrill ride, a succession of wow special effects that the kid in all of us can get off on. Such story as the screenplay provides (an estranged couple of meteorologists, played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, bicker their way toward reconciliation while chasing storms in an effort to test a new measuring instrument) is also an emotional low-pressure zone...
...tornado watching, you're special-effects watching. These are, to be sure, excellent, a seamless blend of digital wizardry and mechanical stunts supervised by the masterful John Frazier. Excellent too is Jack N. Green's cinematography, stubbornly trying to supply the moods and textures missing from the script. In the end, though, Twister proves what everyone already knows--that great visual effects alone cannot carry a picture to anything but insane profitability. And that Michael Crichton has never met man, woman or scientific phenomenon that he cannot convert to dehumanized cliche...
...director Alan Shapiro's script, Sandy (Elijah Wood) is a virtual orphan, with his generation's patented passive insolence, who is exiled to the Bahamas to live with his beach-bum uncle Porter (Paul Hogan). Sandy meets Flipper the dolphin and slowly opens up. The bad guys try to kill Flipper, and...Hands, class! Who wants to finish this plot synopsis...