Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...merely a scholar's overhyped thesis, unsupported by solid evidence? These questions swirl about three tiny fragments of papyrus at Oxford University known collectively as the Magdalen Papyrus. Ragged-edged and dun-colored, they contain snippets of three passages from Chapter 26 of St. Matthew's Gospel in Greek script. For more than 90 years, the papyrus scraps had been housed at the library of Magdalen College, the gift of an obscure British chaplain who bought them at an antiquities market in Luxor, Egypt...
...choice of locations enhances his sense of visual style. The neon-lit lobby corridor, the elevator filled with bright red lights and the rows of seats in primary colors along a downtown New York City sidewalk all complement the fast-paced script. A newspaper shop provides a wonderful locale for Lee to pit Girl 6 against a lecherous store owner...
...television. Of course, the ad-driven medium has never been a pristine art form, its practitioners not generally averse to bending over backward to please sponsors. But lately, advertising's osmotic bleed into entertainment has turned into an arterial gush. Murphy Brown wrote John F. Kennedy Jr. into a script so he could promote his magazine, George; Diet Coke hired the writers and producers of Friends to create a mini episode-cum-ad starring the entire cast; and, most famously, Elizabeth Taylor spritzed her way through four CBS sitcoms in a single night last month--including Murphy Brown, again...
...Russell land such big names after only one art-house success? "I had written a script that made agents sit up and pay attention," says the scruffily handsome director, whose flaws do not include false modesty. "I begged him for the part," agrees Stiller, who plays the lead character, a young entomologist who goes off in search of his biological parents. Moore wanted to play against type as a neurotic, sexually aggressive mother. "What I'm hoping," she says, "is that people in the business will consider me for a new type of work...
...wouldn't want to make a movie with so much autobiographical material again," he confesses. "I'm taking the most embarrassing aspects of myself and inflating them for the world to see." But agonizing over every decision is Russell's modus operandus. After rewriting the script 15 times, he had the actors rehearse for weeks in his home--then fretted about a star like Moore using his bathroom. After Spanking, he wanted to make a funny movie. When Flirting was in the can, "I wondered why I hadn't made Leaving Las Vegas." He must have driven his parents nuts...