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Within months of the Ovitz imbroglio, Eszterhas made headlines again when Basic Instinct drew protests from gay and lesbian groups for its depiction of a bisexual, icepick-wielding wild woman. The movie nevertheless grossed more than $350 million worldwide, and since then Eszterhas has sold various ideas that could end up making him more than $10 million over the next two years, among them a $3.4 million script about mobster John Gotti. In addition, he has written a TV commercial for Chanel No. 5 that was directed by Roman Polanski, and he is mulling over a possible move into theater...
...There is a certain rhythm to my life," Eszterhas muses. "I'll fight for what I believe in, I'll fight for my writing. But I'll tell you, I certainly yearn for a peaceful, harmonious time." Don't bet your icepick...
...wonders if an actress of Dunaway's magnitude is required to deliver it. Daniel Blank (David Dukes), the killer who strikes concurrent with her periods of medical crisis, suffers periodic fits that make him prowl the city, striking down victims with a particularly vicious mountain climber's icepick. Yet here too is caricature--the screenplay never sufficiently explains the root of his troubles, nor why he feels compelled to shave his head, wear a wig, or sleep under a shelf in his walk-in-closet...
...Arnold "Red" Auerbach, general manager of the Boston Celtics, dismisses player-coach Dave Cowens, after the team fails to make the NBA playoffs for the second straight year. Auerbach confirms rumors that the team would like to replace Cowens with Harvard football czar and employee relations expert Wayne Woodrow "Icepick Woody" Hayes. "I mean with Kermit Washington gone we need someone with a good right hook," Auerbach says, between puffs of his cigar...
Next comes a guillotine murder, followed in rapid succession by an icepick murder, an electrocution, and in the finale, two knifings. As the audience learns early in the show and suspects even earlier, the man responsible for all this mayhem is a crime reporter and biographer who, with an admirable collector's instinct, is creating his own Black Museum to surpass that of Scotland Yard...