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Agents and writers have become savvy about inflaming the bidding passions of the big studios. Last month about 20 producers and studio bosses received packages containing black alarm clocks and the cryptic message "The Ticking Man Is Coming." The note described a screenplay by Manny Coto and Brian ( Helgeland about an android with a nuclear bomb implanted in its head. The next day producer Larry Gordon bought The Ticking Man for $1.2 million...
...though. Michael Herr, whose 1977 Dispatches was one of the seminal books about Vietnam, first wrote this semifictional portrait of the man who turned gossip into a heavy industry as a film script. Herr recalls in a preface that he thought of the piece as "something 'more' than a screenplay," while the prospective producers regarded it as "something less." Salvaging his unproduced work, he has kept much of the shape, hard rhythm and clipped language of the film format, as well as the occasional camera direction...
...stroke. The short scenes and pungent dialogue are ideal for catching the rhythm of Winchell's beat, while the residual piece of screenwriter's carpentry ("closing credits come up") underscores not only its artificiality but also Winchell's own purblind flair for self- dramatization. As a literary form, the screenplay generally rates as much respect as restaurant menu prose, and a novel molded like this slips past any easy characterization. "Maybe it's a mongrel," Herr suggests. "Maybe it's just a novel with a camera...
CADILLAC MAN Directed by Roger Donaldson; Screenplay by Ken Friedman...
...Screenplay...