Word: orlean
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...movie, a character named Susan Orlean (played by Meryl Streep) intrepidly investigates the work of eccentric orchid thief John Laroche (Chris Cooper) for a New Yorker article and a book. She also snorts psychotropic orchid extracts, brandishes—and fires—a gun and poses nude for a website while engaged in an affair with Laroche...
...It’s not my book,” Orlean said bluntly on Monday after the audience viewed Adaptation. “In an oblique way, it’s about a particular journey I took as a writer and a journalist...
...film, mainly concerned with the trials faced by an onscreen Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage) after he agrees to adapt Orlean’s book into a screenplay, is no kinder to its script’s author—which Orlean said led her agent to employ an unusual argument as he convinced her to approve the script...
...mean, c’mon,’” Orlean said her agent told her. “Look at Charlie. He’s masturbating through the entire movie. What’s your complaint...
When she finally conceded to have her name attached to the film, Orlean said that signing a waiver form that read “I understand I’ll be portrayed as a murderer, a drug addict and a porn star” was particularly...