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Their upcoming projects include writing a script about the Marx Brothers that will focus on the comedians' early wild years in vaudeville, and producing films about the flamboyant pianist Liberace, First Brother Billy Carter, and Roland Stewart, the ubiquitous fan with the rainbow-colored Afro wig who appeared at nearly every televised sporting event in the 1980s before he snapped violently and was arrested after a shootout with police. As Alexander explains, "We behave like gentlemen at the studio, but we try to write punk-rock material...
...they write a spec script about the worst auteur in cinema history, Ed Wood. Batman director Tim Burton reads it and signs on, and when the movie garners critical praise, the guys decide to stick with their new formula. "Most biopic pitches you hear in Hollywood are about 'The first person to blah-blah-blah,'" says Columbia's executive vice president of production, Michael Costigan, who oversaw The People vs. Larry Flynt. "But Scott and Larry are not concerned about a particular person's achievements as much as they are about their subject's passion, especially when...
This has been the century in which the voices of ordinary people were widely heard for the first time, the century of mass suffrage but also the century of mass suffering. Ordinary people died in the trenches, in a deadly influenza epidemic, went hungry in the Great Depression, brought Adolf Hitler to power and died in the death camps. The Person of the Century should be the common man, the unsung hero who encompasses all our strivings and failings, our successes and disasters, our greatness and pettiness. He is us. ALBERT GOMPERTS Antwerp...
...launched the lifeboats" that saved liberty. You cited Churchill's unmatched career: 50 years of international prominence, the only person to hold high office in both World Wars, the only one to write of his experiences in language that will live as long as words are read. As the first person to proclaim publicly the Soviet threat, Churchill became the architect of the century's great triumph over it. The twin victories over two great evils are this century's dominating achievements. Great movements still in progress--civil rights, gender equality, democratization, market capitalism--would be impossible, or at least...
Henry Ford had a vision: he wanted to make an automobile that anyone could afford, "a car for the great multitudes." Ford succeeded in this, setting up the first assembly line so that his cars could be built quickly and cheaply. And Ford created millions of jobs. He helped make the U.S. the land of opportunity. MICHAEL NONNI Arlington, Mass...