Word: biopics
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...saved by a fisherman and becomes the center of a political conflict between the U.S. and Cuba. It's a terrific story... Imagine 70 soldiers attacking a home to capture a little boy." Thus ran the probable Hollywood pitch by legendary schlock producer Menahem Golan for his Elian Gonzalez biopic, currently in production in Cuba and the odds-on favorite to beat rival projects from CBS and the Fox Family Channel onto screens...
...seemed to make sense that you could marry the two," he says, and that approach has served him well as a militant gay nurse in Broadway's Angels in America: Perestroika (a role for which he won a 1994 Tony); as the drug-addled subject of the 1996 biopic Basquiat; and as the ex-slave who fights for the Confederacy in last year's Ride with the Devil...
...Mitchell brothers did a remarkable thing: they mainstreamed skin flicks with Behind the Green Door. The brothers Emilio Estevez (who directs here) and Charlie Sheen have done a remarkable thing too: they've rendered sex and drugs drop-dead boring. This interminable biopic follows the smuteurs through a rote spiral of success, addiction and doom, with porn-quality dialogue and laughably trippy camera work. We've seen all that before, and it's a good thing. If we had seen this first, it might have ruined porn for us forever...
...million Amount taken in by Stone's 1995 conspiracy-filled biopic, Nixon, during its first month of release...