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...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...
...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...
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...