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...Waterworld weren't an original script (by Peter Rader, David Twohy and at least four uncredited rewriters), it would be the kind of film that makes you want to read the book it was based on, to find all the rich detail the movie leaves out. For despite the toil of hundreds of artisans, Waterworld is a series of hints and promises, weird turns and blind alleys...
Onscreen and off, Grant's shtick is to stammer; words are land mines around which he stumbles nonchalantly. Even with a script, Grant has a rougher time getting through a sentence unharmed than anyone since Jimmy Stewart. And so, in his weeklong mass-media confession, it took a while for him to become sure of himself--sure, that is, of the Hugh Grant he was playing for the largest audience ever to see him (the night he appeared, the Tonight Show won its highest ratings since Leno's first month as permanent host...
...McCain was welcomed home, all right (he leaned forward on his crutches and thanked Richard Nixon for everything including the Christmas bombing that had rained all around the "Hanoi Hilton" while he was a guest there), but McCain's was not a feel-good denouement. A rotten script. One of the lessons of Vietnam was that political context counts--that it may, in fact, be everything. Boys who went off to Vietnam with John Wayne movies screening in their minds returned to Deer Hunter America, to be spat upon and cursed themselves...
Munm and Shah is based on a book of poetry titled Catch! by Marc Zegans, who is a doctoral candidate at the Kennedy School of Government. He collaborated with Devitt on the script of the play...
...center of the story is S.O. Letterman, a movie producer who starts off high-minded and ends with his eye on the box office. Letterman does not give a rat's rump for historical truth. Tim Curtiz, a London-based journalist taking a crack at a lucrative script-writing assignment, does. The subject of the movie, called Masai Dreams, is a striking French anthropologist named Claudia Cohn-Casson, whose work among the Masai, and whose fate at the hands of the Nazis, illustrate the collapse of the 20th century's grandest assumptions about reason and scientific objectivity...