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...lower-middle-class Jewish family in the projects in the era of black leather jackets and greaser hair. Today the kid from the Bronx is on a roll. Houghton Mifflin paid $500,000 for Clockers, and Universal Pictures is putting up $1.9 million for the film rights and a screenplay Price will write. Two more Price-scripted movies, Mad Dog and Glory and Night and the City, both starring Robert De Niro, are set for release this year. Earlier Price credits for The Color of Money and Sea of Love helped put him on Hollywood's A list. "He writes...
...blond TV reporter, could be played by any number of ambitious blond starlets. And Robert Redford could play the star turned director whose son is kidnapped. In a slick comic-book thriller, TIME contributor Martha Smilgis works a writer's hustle (Is it a book, or is it a screenplay?) in the area she knows best, Hollywood and % entertainment news. And in the tradition of Cecil B. DeMille, who condemned sin by taking his audience through frame after lascivious frame, she shows just how filthy the road to filthy lucre...
Burton, returning to direct the sequel, guaranteed his producers a profit by landing superstars Michelle Pfieffer and Danny DeVito to share the Billing with Keaton. But the screenplay fails to give adequate space to these three big talents...
...screenplay, directing and editing of this movie are fatally flawed. I recommend saving the money. The McDonald's Happy Meal is cheaper and even a greasy cheeseburger would be more satisfying...
...movie began as a screenplay written for Bette Midler by playwright Paul Rudnick (Poor Little Lambs, I Hate Hamlet). When she said no thanks, the script became an orphan with many foster parents, and the usual Hollywood bustle commenced, with a new star and half a dozen new writers (including Carrie Fisher). In arbitration, the Writers Guild ruled that Rudnick was the only writer who deserved screen credit, but he declined the honor. "Joseph Howard" is the pseudonym for a committee...