Word: boyhoods
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...will probably follow the same course. Here Bradbury resurrects the place he knew as an entry-level scenarist. He calls it A Graveyard for Lunatics; the more familiar name is Hollywood. The narrator is hired to write a wide-scream horror movie. To his delight, he learns that a boyhood friend has been signed to create the most dreadful monster in film history. Searching for inspiration, the buddies visit a cemetery across the street from Maximus Films. Abruptly, the body of a long-buried mogul passes in review. Is it an apparition? What about the hideous beast that begins...
...later drive up to an Amish farm, and MacAllister asks me to leave my camera in the car. He dislikes the way the Amish--his boyhood neighbors--have been turned into a tourist attraction. "The joy is to walk up to them in your blue jeans and talk to them like ordinary folks," he says...
...have a contract with Paramount guaranteeing them millions of dollars no matter what they produce (or how well it does at the box office), they have the kind of creative freedom to at least attempt to produce tenable films. Instead they chose to produce a movie which indulges the boyhood fantasies of Simpson and Cruise, both amateur race car drivers...
...cheap "I feel I can go in there and just buy." If the July launch is successful, But Gordon could make $20 million over the next three years (the regular line is expected to do $12 million in two). Henderson has been fascinated by fashion since his boyhood in the San Joaquin Valley. His mother, a psychologist, bought Vogue patterns, and young Gordon provided emphatic, unsolicited opinions. Very short as a high school sophomore (he is now 5 ft. 11 in.), he took a tough adult-education course in ! tailoring in order, as he says...