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Almost from the start, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry seemed headed for a Hollywood ending. In 1989, when I had just graduated from college and Washington had just matriculated to stardom, I interviewed him about a new movie he was set to star in called Glory. "I think this movie is good for the country," said Washington, who would go on to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Trip, a Union soldier in the Civil War. Two years later, I interviewed another young rising star named Halle Berry, who was co-starring in a comedy about...
Though Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is the first movie he’s worked on that is on track to actually get produced, Silva is not daunted by the difficulties of writing for Hollywood. “I already have a film to work with, so there’s less of that blank page effect,” he says. “And I like the potential that it has. I’m excited about it.” Nor does Silva fear that his script will be corrupted by Hollywood commercialism...
Silva is an atypical Hollywood scribe. He holds a Harvard Ph.D. in romance languages and he has an academic explanation for what it means to live in the ivory tower and write for the silver screen...
...corruption of his intellectual soul from this part-time screenplay-writing gig. “I’m still a teacher. Teaching may be more important than writing.” It’s not as glitzy, though, and his colleagues get a kick out of the Hollywood connection...
...very queer!” Alice’s reaction to Wonderland appropriately sums up the aftertaste of Hal Harltey’s new film, No Such Thing. Whereas the usual Hollywood fare aims for gargantuan laughs, chilling fear or blubbering tears, No Such Thing offers hard-edged dreaminess and bemused chuckles. Experienced through the fatalistic eyes of young Beatrice, played by Canadian Sarah Polley, our world is scarily believable as a topsy-turvy purgatory...