Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie parodies explode-o-matic thrillers and yet, unlike the Hot Shots! Part Deux school of pure movie lampoons, tries also to be an earnest explode- o-matic thriller. It is a very fine line. "Every moment of every day," says screenwriter Shane Black, of working on the script with his partner David Arnott, "we looked at each other and said, 'This isn't Naked Gun.' " Black, who wrote Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout, says, "I hate action movies," but he also maintains that the new film is "a heartfelt example" of the genre. Sort of. For instance...
...money and lead a team, that she has a sufficiently firm hand." So Potter directed for TV: the series Tears, Laughter, Fear and Rage (1986) and a 1988 documentary on Soviet women. Still, she says, "Orlando wouldn't leave me alone. So five years ago, I got my script out and said, 'I don't care how long it takes or what it costs me -- I'm going to make this film.' You must be utterly in love with filmmaking to get beyond all the crazy obstacles." She raised the $4 million budget from Russian, French, Italian, Dutch and British...
...main blame for all this lies with Clinton, who treats foreign policy as the spinach he must swallow to enjoy the rest of his job. In early May, when the Serbs refused to follow the U.S. peace script, the President even whined that "I felt really badly because I don't want to have to spend any more time on ((Bosnia)) than is absolutely necessary, because what I got elected to do was to let America look at our own problems...
...lesbian groups for its depiction of a bisexual, icepick-wielding wild woman. The movie nevertheless grossed more than $350 million worldwide, and since then Eszterhas has sold various ideas that could end up making him more than $10 million over the next two years, among them a $3.4 million script about mobster John Gotti. In addition, he has written a TV commercial for Chanel No. 5 that was directed by Roman Polanski, and he is mulling over a possible move into theater...
...reliable on- the-air ad libber, either. "Let's say Dan's on a plane when a big story breaks," says Steve Friedman, the Today show executive producer who worked with Chung at NBC. "Do you put Connie out there for two hours with no script? Pretty dangerous...