Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the original script and lyrics are unimpressive and even unoriginal, Schwartz's direction of this well-known storyline is unique: It manipulates color and space to enhance its dramatic impact...
...both of them." He also got Burt Reynolds, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Cher and a horde of other six- and seven-figure actors to play themselves for a few hundred dollars apiece. "None of them were paranoid," Altman says. "None of them came wanting to read the script, none of them...
None of them read the script...
...started being courted by the unlikeliest of people. "Even Disney wants to do something with me," he marvels. Of course, being Robert Altman, he only wants to make the not-obviously-commercial films that interest him. For most of the past decade, he tried and failed to develop a script about the Paris haute couture scene, and now "I'll probably get it done next year -- I imagine directly as a result of the heat on The Player." He is negotiating a development deal for a movie about Mata Hari, and he also wants to film the life of Jean...
...penumbra. An old cheese and some scraps of baguette sit on the coffee table, and beyond the table sits his William Morris agent, listening in on a phone extension as Altman assures someone else's agents that he really is quite committed to directing A Death in Ireland, a script by the actor Tom Berenger. He hangs up. "These are all projects that interest me," he says of the various movies he's trying to get made. "They say, 'The ((movie principals)) will think you're not doing it for art, but just for the gig.' " Altman's not really...