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...life could serve not only as inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's next screenplay but also, perhaps, as a very grim morality tale for those who would do anything for a sleeker look. On July 4, a man supposedly named Antonio Flores Montes, thought to be in his early 40s, was found dead in his Mexico City hospital room after having undergone eight hours of cosmetic facial surgery and liposuction to his midriff. Bruised and punctured, Flores' corpse was flown by chartered plane the next day to the northern Mexican city of Culiacan, where it was laid out at the Capillas...
...said releasing it abroad would do "inestimable harm to American prestige." Senate majority leader Alben Barkley called it a disgraceful attack on the U.S. Senate. Imagine the furor if any of them had known that a man still active in the Communist Party, Sidney Buchman, had written the screenplay for Mr. Smith...
...most unusual concept yet for a White House movie--one imagines, anyway--belongs to Sacred Cows, a notorious and as yet unproduced screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, who is most famous for writing Basic Instinct and Showgirls. Sacred Cows, which is being developed by MGM, tells the story of a President who is caught having a trans-species tryst in a barn. At various times, according to Eszterhas, Steven Spielberg, Milos Forman and Robert Zemeckis have all been attached to the film as directors. "It's a comedic but serious piece," Eszterhas says. "It ultimately makes the case that the President...
Although his screenplay was never produced, May says that during his film negotiations he learned many technical skills such as how to format a script, how to manipulate voice-overs and how to define character action while still allowing for actor interpretation...
Since then, May has completed one screenplay and is in the process of writing three others...