Word: roth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...executive who declined to participate is Joe Roth, chairman of the Disney studios, which did well with the Travolta film Phenomenon. "Bert made it less about [Scientology] and more about connecting to feelings about the Holocaust," says Roth. "Either that, or they're all whores for Tom Cruise and John Travolta, and they wanted to be on the right list...
...ambitious first film as writer-director by actor Vondie Curtis Hall, Shakur plays Spoon, a musician who resolves to say aloha to heroin after his singer girlfriend Cookie (radiant Thandie Newton) nearly dies from a drug overdose. The plot has Spoon and his nutsy pal Stretch (wild man Tim Roth) fleeing a Detroit drug lord (Curtis Hall) who's peeved that the lads stole his stash. But the real story is of the runaround Spoon and Stretch get from social-service employees who can't be bothered to help addicts get into rehab programs. This is an action comedy about...
...performances are also big; nearly everyone in this Act-O-Rama gets a screaming scene. The tone is set by Roth, the Brit of choice for those directors who think Gary Oldman just doesn't push it far enough. It's cartoon work, really (imagine Henery Hawk trying to be the Tasmanian Devil), but fun to watch. And Shakur, as the sensible guy, plays nicely off Roth. He is both Stretch's keeper and the film's conscience. "When gettin' high becomes a job," he muses, "what's the point...
...first film as writer-director by actor Vondie Curtis Hall, starring Tupac Shakur. Shakur plays Spoon, a musician who resolves to say aloha to heroin after his singer girlfriend Cookie (radiant Thandie Newton) nearly dies from a drug overdose. The plot has Spoon and his nutsy pal Stretch (Tim Roth) fleeing a Detroit drug lord (Curtis Hall) who's peeved that the lads stole his stash. But the real story is of the runaround Spoon and Stretch get from social-service employees, who can't be bothered to help addicts get into rehab programs. This is an action comedy about...
...show, co-created by Simpsons writer Glen Daniels, came about when Peter Roth, then president of 20th Century Fox Television, approached the animator about coming up with "a Mike Judge equivalent to Homer Simpson," as part of a production deal Judge had signed with the network's parent company. "I went back to my sketchbooks," recalls Judge, who has lived in Austin, Texas, since 1993, "and I found all these bubba types. I wanted to do something about four or five guys who were really into their power tools...