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McInerney has written a screenplay for the movie version of Bright Lights, and he recently began work on his third novel. Screenwriting, he said, "is not like writing a novel--it's camel by committee time--but the perks are great...
...accident waiting to happen. Part of the fascination of Children of Light comes from watching the author nudge his damaged hero through seedy surroundings down the path toward disaster. Walker has what he thinks is a good idea. He will drive down the Baja peninsula to where a screenplay of his is being shot. He wants to see Lu Anne Bourgeois, a former lover and soul mate in the use of controlled substances, who is known professionally as Lee Verger and who stars in the movie...
...unattentive viewer is at the film's beginning, when it is difficult to discern which characters are central, and which characters are central, and which are only of brief importance. This problem is attributable to the script, however, and is a minor flaw in an otherwise excellent screenplay...
...Gilliam has his answer. The film that had been declared "unreleasable" won prizes for best film, director and screenplay from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. This week Universal is playing it in Los Angeles and New York to qualify for Oscar consideration. It opens in ten cities next February...
...author of "Indians", "Wings", which was made into a TV screenplay, and, most recently, "End of The World," first produced in Washington, D.C. in 1984, told the audience that he believes the most productive writing method is to work on many pieces simultaneously...