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...Anything...(1989), Singles (1992) and Jerry Maguire (1996). Also, Crowe's adolescence truly was unique. Before his 16th birthday, he had hit the road, covering 1970s rock bands for Rolling Stone. That experience "was always the best story I had," says Crowe, 43, who started pounding out the screenplay for Almost Famous nearly 15 years ago and honed it between other projects. "It was the sweetheart that I ran back to every time...
...facto professor. Not entirely happy with his direction of Singles in 1992, Crowe took a break and began studying the work of other filmmakers. Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, he says, taught him how to make his gonzo structure hold together. Like Brooks, Crowe resists traditional screenplay rules, instead laying out his scenes like chapters or tracks on an album...
...none of those descriptions quite covers the case. To begin with, John C. Richards and James Flamberg have actually written a screenplay instead of merely structuring one, which is what most American screenwriters do these days. It is full of quirky yet weirdly believable turns--and wacky, revealing dialogue. "I'm glad they got those casinos," says the parodistically psycho Rock as he reflects on the injustices endured by Native Americans. "I haven't felt like this since I was with Stella Adler in New York," says Kinnear--all actor, all self-absorption--when he finally acknowledges his attraction...
...shooting in Chicago, KEANU REEVES plays a ticket scalper sentenced to coach some Little League ragamuffins from the Cabrini-Green housing project. Sounds saccharine enough for a Robin Williams flick, but the film, very loosely based on actual events, has Chicago Mayor Richard Daley fuming. A copy of the screenplay Daley obtained has Reeves' li'l sluggers acting like delinquents and making liberal use of the F word. (You'd think Daley might protest that the film's central plot device is stolen from that 1992 classic, The Mighty Ducks--but no.) "They just don't want this movie...
Writing a screenplay will do strange things to a man. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA was in the middle of one when it struck him it was time to do musical theater. Inspired by Gidget, the novel about a 14-year-old girl who wants to surf, Coppola co-wrote the book for a musical and 12 original songs. Then he approached the Orange County High School for the Performing Arts in Cerritos, Calif., with a plan to workshop his play using teen performers. "I was a drama counselor in summer camp when I was young," says Coppola. "I like to work...