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...describing middle-class African Americans as "not very black" and "ghetto blacks" as those who "bury themselves in black-itude." Other charges: that he manufactured anonymous quotes, kept staff members from reporting negative stories about his friends and violated his own conflict-of-interest rule by selling a screenplay to Paramount. Bart denied the allegations...
...Cannonball Run flicks some 20 years ago. "I remember those comedies," says Lansing, "and I enjoyed them. I said, 'My God, what happened to that genre?'" Paramount hired Andy Breckman, a writer best known for his work with Saturday Night Live and David Letterman, who penned a screenplay free of fart jokes and full of ambitious, carefully crafted gags. Enter Jerry Zucker...
...fanatics, "Ghost World," has become the most anticipated movie of the summer. Sweat beads pop from their brows. They chew their lower lip and stare into space because fans of Dan Clowes, who created "Ghost World" as a series in his comicbook "Eightball," and who co-wrote the screenplay, are pessimists by definition. It really could be awful. Well folks, you can now unclench your nervous fists about any "Hollywood bastardization" and get ready to enjoy a nearly perfect cinematic adaptation of Clowes' cranky spirit...
...complications from kidney cancer; in Montreal. Richler's first acclaimed novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), about an ambitious Jewish boy clawing his way out of working-class Montreal, was turned into a movie with Richard Dreyfuss in 1974 and earned Richler an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. He also wrote prolifically on such political topics as the Quebec separatist movement, scoffing at the law banning exterior signs in any language but French as "linguistic cleansing." His novels Cocksure (1968) and St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) both won the Governor General's Literary Award, Canada's highest writing prize...
...Writes screenplay for director Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons...