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Larry Gelbart is a Hollywood rarity. In a youth-obsessed town, Gelbart, an accomplished screenwriter and playwright, is busier than ever at 75. There's the film about Pancho Villa for HBO. A jazz song cycle at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. The sequel to The Candidate for Robert Redford. A new musical about Napoleon. A Las Vegas spectacular about Busby Berkeley...
...Sant's terse (80 min.), remorseless film, made for HBO, describes, with fascination but no special urgency, a typical day at a generic high school. For minutes on end, the camera tracks the movements of several students at Watt High: a blond boy arriving late because he has been caring for his alcoholic father, an athlete and his pretty girlfriend planning their calendar, and two lads arming themselves for their own private Armageddon...
Unlike its much-buzzed-about HBO brethren, the cop drama The Wire was not dubbed an instant cultural phenomenon when it debuted last summer. Not as operatic as The Sopranos, as sleek as Six Feet Under or as trendy as Sex and the City, it was not the kind of show that becomes an automatic pop-cult reference for op-ed columnists or lands articles about its stars' footwear in IN STYLE. Like its underfunded, workaday cops, it just plugged away until it outshone anything else...
Marcus Chong, the adopted son of Tommy Chong (one half of Cheech and Chong), is gone. Neither the studio nor Chong would comment on why, but Warner Bros. replaced him with Harold Perrineau, the guy in the wheelchair from HBO's Oz. Chong told ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY that after he was replaced he tried to crash a Matrix press junket and he took food from the Matrix...
...document the crisis in Wenlou. "The more trouble they gave me," he recalls, "the more I knew I couldn't let the project drop." Obstinacy has its rewards. In February, the documentary was screened at the U.S. Sundance Film Festival, where Chen received standing ovations and purchase offers from HBO. Despite the accolades, Chen fears the film may cost him his job. Just before he left town to attend the festival, he says he received a phone call from a local official telling him "that taking the film to Sundance was like stripping my own mother naked and selling tickets...