Word: moresco
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...microscope at the how. NBC's The Black Donnellys, debuting in the fall, comes from the writers of the Oscar-winning message movie Crash and tells the story of four brothers drawn into the Irish Mob. "They live in a world against impossible odds," says co-creator Bobby Moresco, who loosely based the show, with co-creator Paul Haggis, on his New York City childhood...
...zero-tolerance orchestra. Past gabby winners Cuba Gooding Jr. and Julia Roberts wouldn?t have had a chance with this year?s schedule-conscious conductor. Co-winners, like Crash, scriptwriter Bobby Moresco who won for original screenplay, never got to utter a word. In fact, we had lots more to say?about Jon Stewart?s under-stated hosting, Meryl Streep & Lily Tomlin?s witty presenting, Isaac Mizrahi?s good behavior, the penguins who made the trip?(music swells...
...picked Crash up, sent out an astonishing 130,000 dvds of the film, rightly figuring that anyone who saw it would, at least, not forget it. The tactic paid off with the SAG award and Oscar nominations for Best Picture and for Haggis as director and writer (with Bobby Moresco...
...politicians, criminals, and, yes, the cops who have to untangle the messes the make, work out their fates. To say that Paul Haggis's film is multi-layered understates the case. But there is great clarity in his direction, shrewd observation in the screenplay (which he wrote with Robert Moresco and rafts of terrific acting-most notably by Matt Dillon as a racist cop who becomes the reluctant hero of the piece-in this smart, intelligently observed film...
...controversial nature of the film, which investigates racial tensions and politics in the fragmented L.A. metropolis, was never really a point of contention with Haggis either. “We didn’t tone down anything. If [co-writer] Bobby [Moresco] and I were in our right mind, we would have, but we just decided, it’s truth, it comes from a place of truth, we have to say this…We were very, very nervous. Terrified,” Haggis says...