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Makhmalbaf shared the Jury prize with Sweden's Roy Andersson, whose "Songs from the Second Floor" is a handsomely shot series of tragicomic tableaux and trompes l'oeil. The screenplay award went to Neil LaBute's "Nurse Betty," with Renee Zellweger as a young widow propelled by shock into a soap-opera world...
That becomes even more apparent when you realize that the Yankees, despite their ongoing Hollywood screenplay, don't even grab the majority of the Daily News' sports headlines...
...development of Craig Lucas' The Dying Gaul (through April 29 at the Boston Center for the Arts). A modern Faustian fable, The Dying Gaul follows a struggling writer, Robert (John P. Arnold), as he attempts to express his grief over his lover's death in the form of a screenplay. Jeffery (Will Lyman) is a closeted Hollywood producer who offers Robert one million dollars for the script-if he will rewrite the main characters as straight. His wife Elaine (Melinda Lopez) constantly teeters on the brink of destruction as she and her laptop computer explore the seduction...
Nearly three years ago, actor Edward Norton convinced Stuart Blumberg, an old college friend from Yale, to ditch plans for Harvard Law School and work on a film screenplay. The result of his intervention is _Keeping the Faith_, a new romantic comedy first-time director/producer Norton jokingly refers to as his "$30 million rabbi priest joke." However, while the film certainly pays lip service to its religious subtext, it certainly takes its time in exploring them. The movie's two-hour and ten-minute running time is too long, really, for what is essentially a fluffy date movie with...
...these three premises together, and the implication is clear: the dino genes are still out there. So throw your mind forward a few decades, and try out the following screenplay. A bunch of bioinformatics nerds in Silicon Valley, looking for an eye-catching project to showcase the latest IPO, decide to try to re-create the genome of a dinosaur. They bring together a few complete bird genomes--complete DNA texts from the cells of different birds--and start mapping the shared features. The result is a sort of prototype genome for a basic bird...