Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone via closed-circuit TV. This makes him a prime suspect in the wave of violent deaths that has lately plagued the premises. Once Carly discovers his state-of-the-art electronics, he somehow becomes more attractive to her. This is possibly because the only other prospect Joe Eszterhas' script makes available to her is a mystery novelist (Tom Berenger) made understandably surly by impotence and writer's block...
They constitute a glum triangle. It is extremely difficult to care which of the two guys may be the resident psychopath, and neither the script nor Phillip Noyce's direction creates a growing, compelling sense of menace around Stone's character. In fact, she is presented more as an object for study than as an object of sympathy -- that is to say, rather voyeuristically. It is, of course, possible to see this as artful irony, given the film's theme, but it feels more like carelessness. Or exploitation. Or simple imitation. For like Eszterhas' somewhat hotter, somewhat smarter Basic Instinct...
...screenwriter Joe Eszterhas could serve as a high-concept sequel to The Player, last year's scathing parody of movie industry manners. Fade in: A Hungarian emigre becomes a hotshot newspaper reporter in the 1960s, reinvents himself as a gonzo journalist and gets the call from Hollywood to write scripts. He clashes with studio heads and Hollywood power brokers, even the awesome Michael Ovitz, but he survives and thrives. As he turns out a succession of sexy, if not particularly smart, screenplays such as Flashdance, Jagged Edge and Basic Instinct, his fee rises to a record-breaking $3 million...
While the Broadway production is visually ugly, far less magical and on the whole less convincing than the Los Angeles staging that earned the play the Pulitzer, Kushner's witty, energized and unpredictable script makes 3 1/2 hours fly by. Indeed, one leaves the theater wishing that the drama's second half, of similar length, were already up and running...
...unusual. Paper mache animals perch on pebbles bordering a room crowded with sparkling colored candles, odds and ends of flowered furniture. As soon as Janine Poreba and Jennifer Sun walk onstage and begin to speak, however, it is their engrossing performances which overflow the room. Athol Fugard's brilliant script is given life by an extremely talented cast, who bring a piece of South Africa's karoo home to Harvard...