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Robert Shapiro, never averse to cameras, has signed on as executive producer for Evil Empire, a movie about the Russian Mafia, to be written by one-man script mill Joe Eszterhas. "I'll need his creativity, street smarts and negotiation skills when I'm dealing with the Russian Mob," says Eszterhas, adding that the two are old friends. "He was one of my divorce attorneys...
...Briskly directed by Charles Russell, Eraser seems a near-photostat of Mission Impossible (the break-in of a secretive Washington-area facility to use a computer, the duplicitous father figure who must be killed) but with more brio. It also boasts some of the genre's standard idiocies. The script, by Tony Puryear, Walon Green and Michael S. Chernuchin, dreams up a new era of hand-held weaponry: a heat-seeking assault rifle. But the bad guys can't shoot straight enough with these can't-miss guns to hit either star. When they are on target, they often kill...
...House Un-American Activities Committee and was indicted for refusing to testify. Lily, as he called her, was then a rich writer, but, lest her career be jeopardized, she refused to make his bail, departing, instead, for London and Paris. Why? Reveling in success, and desperate to write the script for an Alexander Korda movie of War and Peace, she was afraid of being branded a leftist...
...Rules of the Game, set on the eve of World War II, and Bunuel's The Exterminating Angel, which was about a party that, mysteriously, no one could leave. This time there's no war, and it's the audience that's trapped. In Susan Minot's goofy script, Tyler ministers to ailing writer Jeremy Irons and other artsy layabouts while searching for the man on whom to bestow her virginity. The climactic deflowering scene provides the only giggles in an otherwise stodgy mess...
...remainder of the day is spent researching, dealing with breaking news events and preparing his news script...