Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then there is the luminous Driver who is shaping up to be one of the best young actresses today. Her role is underwritten, but she simply elevates herself above the script. She glows onscreen with charisma, and her sly British accent makes her banter with Will all the more entertaining. You have to wonder what Driver would do with a better-written part...
Following in the footsteps of his friend Matthew McConaughey, Damon landed the lead in The Rainmaker--a Francis Ford Coppola film. Then, the script which he and his best friend Ben Affleck wrote together, Good Will Hunting, was finally picked up by Mira-max--the brilliant Gus Van Sant signed on to direct soon after. And next summer, Damon will headline in Steven Spielberg's World War II epic Saving Private Ryan...
...talking about Lady Chablis. Clint Eastwood's lumbering adaptation of John Berendt's bestseller falls short of expectations, rendering the unique pantheon of Savannah personalities as mere cartoons and focusing too much on a long, drawn-out murder trial. John Cusack fumbles through the role of the script's too-young, too-straight stand-in for Berendt's narrator. But despite these flaws, Kevin Spacey shines as Jim Williams, the enigmatic gay antiques dealer who kills his lover in what may or may not have been selfdefense...
...actors are incidental; their characters are well-developed and are as well-known to the audience as soap opera faces, for Scream fans. Most are unimpressive, although Jada Pinkett proves again how far one can get by bubbly dramatic readings of a script...
...cameo in Posse, a modestly successful black western. Grier gave Tarantino a look and said, "Please." Not "pleeeese," meaning, yes, give it to me, thank you very much. But "puhhhhlease," meaning there's not a snowball's chance this joker is actually gonna come through with a script...