Word: biopics
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Finally, CBS is doing the right thing about "The Reagans." Under pressure the network has decided not to air the two-part biopic, steering it instead to the cable outlet Showtime (like CBS, owned by Viacom). But just because a far smaller audience will now see the film (Showtime draws maybe a million viewers on a top night) doesn?t make this story any more accurate. According to the screenplay for ?The Reagans,? my father is a homophobic Bible-thumper who loudly insisted that his son wasn?t gay when Ron took up ballet, and who in a particularly scathing...
...drug thugs she had exposed--cued mourning of an intensity that rivaled Princess Diana's the following year. Guerin (rhymes with cheerin') has been the subject of two films, the fictionalized When the Sky Falls, with Joan Allen in the lead role, and now a smartly mounted and modulated biopic, Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett...
...their number we must now add American Splendor, which is technically a biopic about a guy named Harvey Pekar. Who, you ask, is Harvey Pekar? And why should he rate a biopic when I don't? (That second question qualifies you as a perfect audience for this movie.) But as written and directed by the wife-husband team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, the film is concerned mainly with the first question, the shortish answer to which is that Pekar was, until his retirement in 2001, a file clerk in a Veterans Affairs hospital, a housekeeping-challenged resident...
When JACK NICHOLSON addressed striking French actors who interrupted his film shoot in Paris last week, he might have been overcome by feelings of labor solidarity from playing Jimmy Hoffa in a 1992 biopic. Standing on a bridge over the Seine, Nicholson grabbed a bullhorn and tried to persuade strikers to allow work on his untitled romantic comedy to proceed. But after listening to his comrades' complaints, the star shouted in broken French, "The struggle continues!" Nicholson was both diplomatic and prophetic. Two days later France's two most popular summer arts festivals were cancelled because of the strike...
America's Rudy, meet New York City's Rudy: that's the idea behind the biopic Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (USA, March 30, 8 p.m. E.T.). Giuliani's story fit the standard three-act arc neatly. He rose to glory, busting crime first as a prosecutor, then as a two-term mayor; he fell into ignominy by mishandling alleged police-brutality cases and dealing callously with the public disintegration of his marriage; and he was redeemed by 9/11 as well as by the mellowing effects of his 2000 diagnosis of and battle against prostate cancer...