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...Well, yes, you're right, that's what I meant by [the above answer]. I think biography should take advantage of all these new communicative techniques we've got these days. The technique of the screenplay, sound effects, and computer techniques. Several chapters in Reagan's life were so cinematic that I've actually written them cinematically. Why not? It's the truthful way and the appropriate way to describe that they were episodes almost cinematic in themselves. He remembers them as cinema, so I write them as cinema...
...career. His first professional stage appearance, on Broadway at the age of 21, earned Fonda rave reviews and several critics' awards. Since then his credits have included the great anti-establishment "road film" Easy Rider (produced, co-scripted and starring Fonda, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay) and 1997's Ulee's Gold (for which Fonda received a Golden Globe, the New York Film Critics Award and the Oscar nomination for Best Actor...
...Harvard Crimson: How did you come upon the story upon which you based your screenplay...
...every screenplay in L.A., there's a business plan in Silicon Valley. All it takes to launch the next Internet giant is a neat idea, a few connections and a lot of luck. Palo Alto even has its own Spago, where venture capitalists have become the Harvey Weinsteins and the pitches sound like "It's FogDog meets AskJeeves." Entrepreneurs even have their own snooty publicists. The agents will arrive shortly...
...When I first read the screenplay, I read the monologue about the beauty of a plastic bag blowing in the wind: "There is so much beauty in the world, you feel like you can't take...