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...PAUL RUDNICK, a playwright and screenwriter, is the author of the play and film Jeffrey and the film Addams Family Values...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOW IT'S AIDS INC. | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...Paramount's Lansing played hardball, threatening to sue. "I'll take your house," an insider remembers her threatening. Hawn stayed in but asked for changes to make the women less shrewish. "I stuck with that bone and didn't let it go," she says. Addams Family Values screenwriter Paul Rudnick polished the script. And Midler, demanding more comedy, improvised some of her sharpest lines, including her comment to her husband's lithe mistress: "My, my. The bulimia certainly has paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD'S BEST REVENGE | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...hoot encased in her collagenized lips and sprawling ego. And before the film gets haggard in Act III, it's pretty darn funny, thanks to director Hugh Wilson (who wove a camaraderie of losers in his TV show WKRP in Cincinnati), screenwriter Robert Harling (Steel Magnolias) and rewriter Paul Rudnick (The Addams Family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LADIES WHO LUNGE | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

Though this all seems familiar and a bit dated (the NEA controversy was years ago), Rudnick's dialogue is so snappy and pleasantly consonant it doesn't matter. ("I worship you, I adore you, last Halloween, I was you" crows one of Alex's downtown friends to the bouffanty Mrs. Bemiss.) Director Christopher Ashley uses Derek McLane's sleek, convincing sets--Alex's loft and the Civic Central art museum--to the fullest extent, giving the actors a range of movement and building rhythm through the performance...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Rudnick Turns Politics Into Farce | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

American Repertory Theatre: "The Naked Eye," a new satire by Paul Rudnick, the author of "Jeffrey," now through July 3rd (See review, page 3). And "Long Day's Journey Into Night," by Eugene O'Neill, beginning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Things to Do | 5/17/1996 | See Source »

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