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...with what might fondly be called exuberant crap. For both, his preparation is obsessive. He writes out full character biographies--"Educational background, who his parents were, what he did, where he came from, what kinds of friends he has," says Jackson--then memorizes everything and inserts notes into the script to mark the spots where he plans tiny, barometric moments of character revelation. "Doesn't matter if it's Sphere or Shakespeare," he says. "Acting is craft, and everybody's got to bring it if you don't want your movie to be a piece...
...David Ellis, who directed Snakes and has worked as an assistant director on four other Jackson films, says of the actor, "Unless the director is a total jerk, he's always very respectful. But he's a tireless advocate for the film he read in the script and pictured in his head. He so wants to entertain people, and folks in the movie business often forget that's what our mission...
American dysfunction! Is there anything more comically inspiring than a hard, hilarious look at the reality behind this ruling cliché? For all the exaggerations in Michael Arndt's script (jauntily directed by the husband-wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris), it comes closer to the truth about the way people really live--on the edge of fantasy-driven desperation--than our sanctimonies permit us to think...
...Essentially what they do is take the footage they watch, write outlines and treatments and put together a script that has primary and secondary characters," says Writer's Guild spokesman Gabriel Scott. "They build the narrative out of hundreds of hours of raw footage. America's Next Top Model is the highest-rated reality show and the flagship program for a new network. And here the writers don' t get the benefits that the editors and Tyra Banks get." Guild officials point out that reality writers don't accrue the portable pension and other benefits that a writer of West...
...Bowe, an associate show producer on Top Model, says she and her partner crafted 250 hours of raw footage into a full script with characters and storylines. "We don't put the words in the contestants' mouths, but a photo shoot and a watchable episode is created," says Bowe. Clint Catalyst, also an associate producer who worked on scripted television and wrote several novels before joining the Top Model staff, says, "We're storytellers. And we're not recognized as such. There's a notion that people have that there is no writing in reality television, and that's just...