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...volcanoes debuted within weeks of each other. The following year, the same thing happened with two films about flying space rocks. This month a pair of novels about the inner workings of Hollywood will hit bookstores within days of each other. Maneater (Simon & Schuster; 309 pages) by Gigi Levangie Grazer and Action! (Random House; 388 pages) by Robert Cort explore the less camera-ready aspects of the film industry, and the authors know whereof they speak. Grazer wrote the screenplay for Stepmom and is married to Brian Grazer, the Academy Award--winning producer of A Beautiful Mind. Cort...
Equal credit goes to director Curtis Hanson and producer Brian Grazer for making 8 Mile what the Spears and Carey films failed to be: a moderately engaging, not entirely frivolous portrait of a troubled young musician sculpting an identity out of conflicting ambitions and personal limitations. Also present are a plethora of clichés—condemnations from disapproving loved ones, initial performance anxiety and closing credits that just happen to be accompanied by the musician’s most recent single. Despite all this, 8 Mile capitalizes on its strong supporting cast and top notch production values...
Howard and producer Brian Grazer acquired the rights to Sylvia Nasar's unauthorized biography of John Forbes Nash and his wife Alicia. But they also had to pay Nash for his "life" rights. Nash negotiated a deal containing a "can't include without consent" clause and insisted he not be depicted as a homosexual because it wouldn't be true. He made no demands about his episode of anti-Jewish delusions described in the book or his relationship with another woman, with whom he fathered a son. Howard just didn't care to focus on those aspects, which he thought...
...like." On her no-no list was what she calls "sexual" humor that showed up in some drafts. Like what? "Oh, creating a furball," she answers, so disgusted by the notion that she refuses to elaborate. "She was really tough on me for a year and a half," says Grazer, "and I wanted to please this woman." Finally, when Geisel saw the finished film, she spoke to the producer with tears in her eyes: "Ted would have loved it so much...
Without Seuss's guiding hand on the live-action Grinch movie, producer Brian Grazer and makeup artist Rick Baker argued whether the citizens of Who-ville should look odd (Baker's choice) or cute (Grazer's), and debate raged over what shade of green the Grinch should be. Because Seuss's own illustrations in his book were too austere for a splashy holiday movie (his Whos lived in thatched huts), production designer Michael Corenblith had to comb through the entire Seuss canon to find recurring shapes and motifs on which to base the film's swirling, elaborate sets...