Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was no snow scene in the script, but Hiller says the opportunity to film McGraw and O'Neal rolling in the snow was too good to waste...
From faculty lounges to garrets to the watering holes of writers across the nation, the unsettling news spread that the script for Bob Dole's best speech ever, his not-a-dry-eye, "White House or home" abdication address, was the work of a Wall Street Journal columnist listed as Mark Helprin. Come again? The Helprin known by starving artists and threadbare assistant professors of English is, after all, an aesthete hatched at the New Yorker and renowned as the writer of eloquent, rarefied novels. And as a tormentor of reporters, who in his early years invented an ever changing...
...asking price has soared, so has his involvement. Grisham had approval of script, director and cast during the making of A Time to Kill (while grumping about Universal's unapproved adaptation of The Chamber, due this fall). He is co-writing the screenplay for The Rainmaker with director Francis Coppola. By the time Grisham finishes his eighth novel, he could call it Showgirls II and still name his terms...
...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...