Word: screenplays
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...rarest (though unequivocally the most rewarding) brand of biographical film treats the truly unbelievable story, the preternatural case history, the real life epic that, without artistic interpretation or cinematic doctoring, reads like a full-blown Hollywood screenplay. Steven Soderberg’s 2000 Oscar-award-winning Erin Brockovich tells just such a story. To be sure, Soderberg’s nuanced cinematographic virtuoso played no small role in the movie’s success. His refreshingly honest, underproduced visual aesthetic won him a second Oscar at the 73rd annual Academy Awards for his harrowing portrayal of suburban American drug culture...
...writers come up with new twists on old conventions. In Cusack’s case, witness Gross Pointe Blank, which took the romantic comedy genre (in which Cusack most comfortably walks) and tweaked it, hilariously, by making Cusack’s leading man an assassin. Unfortunately, for every inspired screenplay, there are hundreds of others that are content to play by the rules, re-staging old scenes and re-hashing old material. We’re consequently served up fare that, in its eagerness to showcase Cusack’s widespread appeal, arrives with hardly anything to distinguish itself (think...
...would be safe to say that Rem Koolhaas is the only renowned architect who also once wrote a screenplay for Russ Meyer, the director of Mondo Topless. But the Dutch architect's immersion in mass culture is part of what made him just the man to design the two latest additions to the Guggenheim Museum's global museum line, opening on Oct. 7. That's because both will be located at the Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas...
...describing middle-class African Americans as "not very black" and "ghetto blacks" as those who "bury themselves in black-itude." Other charges: that he manufactured anonymous quotes, kept staff members from reporting negative stories about his friends and violated his own conflict-of-interest rule by selling a screenplay to Paramount. Bart denied the allegations...
...Cannonball Run flicks some 20 years ago. "I remember those comedies," says Lansing, "and I enjoyed them. I said, 'My God, what happened to that genre?'" Paramount hired Andy Breckman, a writer best known for his work with Saturday Night Live and David Letterman, who penned a screenplay free of fart jokes and full of ambitious, carefully crafted gags. Enter Jerry Zucker...