Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example: in real life Eva Peron actually spoke most of her lines). "Dramatizing Larry Flynt was walking a tightrope--include too many contemptible events, and the audience turns off," concede the film's screenwriters, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, in an introduction to the published version of their script. Its climax revolves around the libel suit filed against Flynt by the Rev. Jerry Falwell, which led to the famous 1988 Supreme Court decision saying it's O.K. to poke fun at public figures, even to say--as Hustler did of Falwell--that they have sex with their mothers in outhouses...
...comic premises go, this is not exactly a world-beater. But soon enough, the keepers--gentle souls all--are funnily up in arms defending their pets. A wandering tarantula motivates a genteel striptease, and the mean mogul gets his comeuppance. The script, by Cleese and Iain Johnstone, lacks Wanda's mean and giddy inventiveness, and the directors, Robert Young and Fred Schepisi, don't wind their material very tightly. Still, this good-natured movie is very much in the spirit of those ancient comedies from Ealing Film Studios in which nice, silly people defend some enclave of old-fashioned sanity...
...young man had one simple question for Al Franken '73, the former "Saturday Night Live" script writer and author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot: "How should I do it without becoming violently...
...acquaintance with a known prostitute and to an abortion. Said Laurie Levenson, dean of Loyola Law School: "The whole contention is 'I'm a wonderful person, and I wouldn't have done this.'" Even the plaintiffs noted privately that there was little they would challenge. "It's his script, and we all know the words," said a source close to the plaintiffs. "Deny, deny...
Perhaps by the time Judge completes his next big project, the girls will be old enough to become fans. He is about to begin writing a script for a live-action comedy film he hopes to direct. Its subject? The eerie modern construct that is the suburban office park. Maybe someday Judge could do a catchy musical about aluminum siding...