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...almost hear the pitch for Fisher's screenplay, currently in production and now fleshed out in his memoir: Dickens in Cleveland! The Color Purple, but true and male and set in the 1960s! The facts of his life have a movie-of-the-week ring: relentlessly abusive foster care; redemption through military service; and irrepressible intellect. But detailed accounting distinguishes the tale, and Fisher's searing, luminous portrait of his childhood transcends the familiar, as does his retroactive (and likely hard-won) tenderness toward the boy no one else loved...
DIED. EDDIE PARKER, 69, nimble, self-taught pool shark who earned the nickname "Fast Eddie" in high school and claimed to have inspired Walter Tevis' book and screenplay The Hustler (Tevis' widow disagrees); of an apparent heart attack; at the U.S. Classic Billiard Eight-Ball Showdown in South Padre Island, Texas. He was a money player but, he avowed, an honest one who never hustled...
...Gladiator I hated this movie. The plot was ridiculous, the acting leaden, the screenplay (which also received a nomination, a final and irrefutable indication that the vast majority of Academy voters are on crack, most likely picked up on the set of "Traffic") asinine. Give this bloated monster a nod for costumes, or set design or lighting, and I won't complain. But when you open up the Best Picture field to dreck like this, you're just steps away from including Tom Green?s next movie. And that, by the way, is not a good thing...
Critics bruised the novel pretty badly, but Hopkins got a kick out of it: "I thought it was way over the top but interesting." Foster wasn't so taken. Early on, De Laurentiis refused to pay her $20 million asking price, then after she read the screenplay, she opted out, saying she preferred to direct a movie of her own. "She need the picture more than we need her," scoffs the producer. "I believe she's wrong for this movie. We have a different story, mature woman with sex appeal, and I don't think it's right for Jodie...
...World War 3.0 is the diligent analysis of the case, John Heilemann's Pride Before the Fall: The Trials of Bill Gates and the End of the Microsoft Era (HarperCollins; 246 pages; $25) is the dramatically arced screenplay. Heilemann's book, which started life as an article in Wired, is a fast-paced account full of big-screen moments. The most impressive: his contention that the richest man in the world exclaimed at a Microsoft board meeting last year that "the whole thing is crashing in on me" and started...