Word: biopics
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...even mad! That’s amazing!”). In the fall, Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve should be a romp, and I’ll probably check out Martin Scorsese’s star-laden Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator, Oliver Stone’s Alexander, and Terry Gilliam’s The Brothers Grimm...
...does small parts in big pictures and looks forward to doing big parts in small pictures. Ever reliable, never anyone's idea of a movie star, he has soldiered for Steven Spielberg in Saving Private Ryan, played a character known as Pig Vomit in the Howard Stern biopic Private Parts and portrayed a cowardly orangutan in the remake of Planet of the Apes. So when he was approached to play Harvey Pekar in American Splendor, it seemed to be just business as usual--except that Pekar, the notably depressive writer of comic books about his grim life and glum times...
...guided Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne to Academy Award nominations in the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It, about Ike and Tina Turner, and was responsible for such acclaimed TV movies as Dennis Potter's 1979 BBC film Blue Remembered Hills and the 1991 biopic The Josephine Baker Story...
...same question in a prime-time special. In fact, it was easier for a work to provoke discussion if no one saw it. Possibly the most debated works of 2003 were The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson's unfinished movie about the Crucifixion; The Reagans, a TV biopic that no one outside CBS saw before the network canceled it under protest; and Daniel Libeskind's World Trade Center rebuilding design, which spent most of the year on the redrawing board...
...license taken," Shapiro notes. "To personalize it and claim we are aiming at you is absurd." Now he's taking the NBA to the hoop: ESPN will air an Osbournes-like look at Dennis Rodman's NBA comeback attempt. NASCAR could be next. Shapiro has slated a Dale Earnhardt biopic for the spring. "Name me a great company that doesn't take some risks," Shapiro says. And name a great programmer who has not been fired at least once...