Word: scripting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...will inevitably land at Abbas's door - the Bush Administration and Sharon will chide him for failing to find the political will to act against terrorism; the Palestinians will chide him for being duped by them. But the problem may lie not only with the actor, but with the script: The "roadmap" has not changed the salient reality for the Israelis, which is that terrorists with no interest in a peace process can, at will, exercise the option of killing Israeli children on the streets of Israeli cities. Nor has it changed the salient reality for the Palestinians, which...
...Reality has careened wildly off the Administration script...
This is a big change from as little as a decade ago. "When I first went around with the script for Clueless, everybody passed on it because it was from a young girl's point of view," says director Amy Heckerling. "They thought maybe it would be O.K. on Nickelodeon, but young guys were who you wanted to get into theaters." Now the girl-centric movie is proving to be as popular an entertainment as the boys' big-bucks shoot-'em-ups. The newest chicklet flick, Freaky Friday, opened to surprisingly strong reviews and box-office numbers last week...
...movie adaptation starring Paul Giamatti and Hope Davis opens next week and may be the most ambitious film adaptation of a comic ever attempted. Co-directors and script-writers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini combine re-enactments with animation and documentary footage of the real people being played in the movie - including Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner - sometimes putting the actors and their real-life counterparts in the same frame. Giamatti gives a hilariously simian characterization of Pekar as he struggles to find meaning in his life. Essentially a story about the redemptive power of art, Pekar...
...says the things you want to say but don't have the b____ to say. He's never had the intention of hurting people's feelings. He just doesn't know." The third Pie movie, which Scott says the studio persuaded him to do by offering him a good script and better cash, focuses on Stifler's lack of character growth as he enters his mid-20s. "At the end of the movie, he does something good without disappointing the people who like him," Scott says. "He's still...