Word: flynt
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Oddballs are Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski's specialty. Five years ago, the screenwriting partners turned the life of cross-dressing B-movie director Ed Wood into a critically acclaimed film starring Johnny Depp. Next they wrote The People vs. Larry Flynt, a Capraesque portrait of the porno kingpin who won a First Amendment case before the Supreme Court, with Woody Harrelson in the title role. But even for these masters of the "anti-biopic," which they describe as a movie biography of someone who doesn't really deserve one, telling the story of comedian Andy Kaufman presented a challenge...
...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 it has a slanted angle...
...answer that conundrum. Both merely present Kaufman with a dispassionate, ultimately hypnotizing objectivity. It is very possibly the best work each man has done, and assuredly the best thing screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski have done in a joint career devoted to odd fellows--Ed Wood, Larry Flynt--coolly observed...
First Larry Flynt, and now this. On Wednesday the Supreme Court will attempt to strip down its complicated message on the legality of outlawing nude bars. It's an issue the court has tackled before, but without much decisiveness: A convoluted 1991 ruling, which included four separate majority opinions, upheld the constitutionality of such laws. Before the court now, however, is a 1998 Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling in favor of Erie, Pa.'s Kandy's Dinner Theater, which challenged a local public indecency ordinance and bills itself as the "First Amendment Rights Headquarters." The state court sided with the dissenting...
...that the actor has read a script based on the flamboyant pianist's life, but a revised version is currently being overseen by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, with whom Depp worked on Ed Wood. The screenwriters, no strangers to eccentricity, have also penned biopics on Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and oddball comic Andy Kaufman. Remember, Johnny, don't get too close to the candelabra when wearing the wig. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner...