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...going to feed a writer, expect to get your hand bitten. It is the nature of the beast, as demonstrated with appropriate relish by John Gregory Dunne in Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. Among those that made it to the cineplexes in one version or another are the Barbra Streisand remake of A Star Is Born and the Robert Redford-Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, Up Close and Personal...
BOOKS . . . MONSTER: LIVING OFF THE BIG SCREEN: John Gregory Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. One of those, the Robert Redford?Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, 'Up Close and Personal,' is the subject of Dunne?s new book (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Originally the film was to be based on a biography of Jessica Savitch, the television reporter who died with her boyfriend in 1983 when their car accidentally rolled into the Delaware Canal near Philadelphia. But the details...
BOOKS . . . MONSTER: LIVING OFF THE BIG SCREEN: John Gregory Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. One of those, the Robert Redford?Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, 'Up Close and Personal,' is the subject of Dunne?s new book (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Originally the film was to be based on a biography of Jessica Savitch, the television reporter who died with her boyfriend in 1983 when their car accidentally rolled into the Delaware Canal near Philadelphia. But the details...
...needs another Brando imitation? Stephens' Stanley is a credible alternative: a cocky bantamweight, less Brando than Cagney. And if his climactic sexual conquest of Blanche is more like a grapefruit in the face than the shattering of a deluded woman's life, the approach makes Stanley less of a monster--and more of a plausible match for Stella, played with unusual strength and spunk by Imogen Stubbs...
Like Beavis & Butt-head, King of the Hill is a manifestation of Judge's longtime obsession with an America of tract homes and monster truck shows, Dairy Queens and Wal-Marts. "Mike has surrounded himself in Texas with great raconteurs," notes Sam Johnson, a former Beavis writer who is now executive story editor on NBC's NewsRadio. "They regale him with tales of misfit friends and trailer-park relatives. Mike is repelled by this world and also incredibly attracted...