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...film director (Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, which opens Friday), he gives long, well-thought-out answers. "We just kept cutting the budget until it wasn't a major risk for the studios," he says about Adaptation, an unconventional adaptation of New Yorker writer Susan Orlean's book The Orchid Thief, in which screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Human Nature and next month's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) writes about his struggle to write the screenplay. Jonze has learned to spend his creative weirdness in his work instead...
...other hand, you can't say that, for all their juking and jiving, Kaufman and Jonze have really licked Orlean's book. Chris Cooper is funny as the dentally challenged redneck orchid thief--there's a funny-weird disconnect between his personality and his obsession--and Streep works up a fine, ladylike glow of perspiration stalking him. But the movie ends in a burst of violence that we are unprepared for and don't believe. Maybe it's the film's final joke: Donald's cheesy screenwriting manner winning out over Charlie's. In fact, the mythical brother shares...
...hard to write when you're down in the dumps. Just ask Charlie Kaufman. Having written the deliriously original Being John Malkovich, he's hired to adapt Susan Orlean's nonfiction best seller The Orchid Thief. It's a meditative, philosophical, nonlinear narrative, totally resistant to conventional screenwriting technique. Charlie, played with morose and hilarious authority by Nicolas Cage, immediately develops an XXL-size writer's block...
...under house arrest on Oct. 4 for charges of fraud and other commercial crimes; in Shenyang, China. Yang's fall from grace is an em-barrassment for North Korea, and may strain the country's historically close ties with China. Trading of shares in Yang's Hong Kong-listed orchid exporter Euro-Asia Agricultural Holdings has been suspended since late September, and the company has virtually collapsed, unable to repay its loans. Hong Kong authorities are investigating it for criminal activity...
...Dancing," for instance, tells of Barry's childhood enthusiasm for hula dancing. With fantastic powers of memory (or perhaps imagination) Barry recreates the near-hallucinatory, intensely-observed world of childhood. The hula teacher is a "middle-aged white lady who was obsessed with Hawaii. She always had a plastic orchid in her hair..." You could read "One Hundred Demons" just for the pleasure of remembering playing kickball in the street, or the way other people's houses smelled, or clutching your favorite teddy bear...