Word: biopics
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...down low," says director Spike Lee. CBS has announced a TV movie on Flight 93, the hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania. But a network spokesman stresses that the movie is still in development and might not ever see the light of day. Meanwhile, an NBC biopic on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is also undergoing close scrutiny for its handling of the tragedy. Jeff Gaspin, an NBC executive vice president in charge of movies, says the network is trying to figure out how many script pages should be devoted to Sept. 11: "We're at the five...
...biopic material goes, the Kennedy clan is the most bio-picked-over of all. The overfamiliar scenes of Kennediana crawl by like the Stations of the Cross (J.F.K.'s horse-drawn casket, the inevitable football tossing), and the genre has the awkward burden of forcing climax and resolution on lives that were actually ended in midstory by assassinations...
...extends his news satire program The Daily Show to CNN International. Early word has Gallagher pegged for Kabul bureau chief Losers WINNIE MADIKIZELA-MANDELA Nelson's ex-wife in court for fraud. All this is just Winnie's way to make sure that Halle Berry plays her in the biopic, not Angela Bassett JERRY SPRINGERRA Trash host's show named worst program ever by TV Guide-validation that Springer has succeeded beyond his loftiest ambitions JOHN HENRY WILLIAMS Ted Williams' son criticized for having his dad cryogenically frozen. On the plus side, there was plenty of ice around...
Nolan lives in Los Angeles with his wife (and producing partner) Emma Thomas and their infant daughter. He's writing his next project, a biopic of Howard Hughes. Again he'll plumb the depths of human neuroses and take a funny man to the dark side--in this case, Jim Carrey as the reclusive billionaire. "It's about the extremes to which one man can live--the glamour, the wealth, then the claustrophobic unhappiness," says Nolan with the most benign smile possible...
...some Beautiful bashers, these omissions are crucial--as if a biopic of Bill and Hillary Clinton had left out "I didn't inhale," Paula Jones and the cigar. But A Beautiful Mind--like the Iris Murdoch drama Iris, which has also been criticized for rouging the truth, and for which Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent are nominated this year--is biography simplified to a parable in which reason is lost and love sustained. Anyway, that's the movie that Howard made and that will probably be named Best Picture on Sunday. You see, now that it's been pilloried...