Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read over the script, sent in a tape, talked to the staffing agent in Cambridge, and filled out his study card without having shopped any classes. Most fortuitously, he called up Henderson at Dreamworks the morning after he found out he was probably going to be in the film...
...stopped the Hollywood boo birds. She has been criticized for everything from poor scheduling during the May sweeps to giving only grudging approval to the network's one mid-season success, the Dan Aykroyd sitcom Soul Man. (Tarses admits she had problems with a first draft of the script but insists she was a solid backer of the show by the time it was finished...
...Kathleen Kennedy: "In the same way Michael doesn't see writing as a collaboration, Steven went off and did his own movie. When Michael turned the book over to Steven, he knew his work was finished." The author was never consulted about the sequel, nor was he sent a script until he held back approval of certain merchandising rights. But Crichton now sounds sanguine about the process. "When I write," he says, "I have to have the book be exactly the way I want it to be, and that's that. The movie will be exactly the way the director...
...pause. Laura's glass collection did not occupy the central position one might expect, being placed on stage right and partially obscured by the sofa. When Tom, in a fit of anger, hurled his coast at his mother, instead of knocking over the glass ornaments (as in the original script), it hit Laura herself. Perhaps the director was making a conscious decision to avoid too heavy-handed and obvious a use of the symbolism, but it is worth remembering that the glass menagerie is both the title and the central symbol of the play, and figures prominently in the interchange...
...David O. Selznick--the cultured, romantic, passionate kind, who won't let go of an idea until it happens." And who wants things the way he wants things. When Assante tried to back out of The Odyssey at one point during the production because he was unhappy about the script, Halmi slapped him with a lawsuit for the entire budget of the film. Assante came back, and Halmi conceded to a reworking of the teleplay. It is a testimony to the producer's wily charm that Assante harbors no ill will. "The experience," he reasons, "was very good...